page_title: Trams in Geneva
section_title: Renaissance (1977–1992)
hierarchical_section_title: Trams in Geneva / History / Renaissance (1977–1992)
caption_attribution_description: English: Geneva tram or streetcar as seen from above, July 1973. Advertising around the car is for TWA airline. You can see some shops beyond the sidewalk, or trottoir. Français&#160;: Tramway vu d'en haut, portant de la publicité pour la compagnie aérienne TWA. Immeuble situé 11 route de Chêne, à l'angle de l'avenue de la gare des Eaux-Vives.
context_page_description: The Geneva tramway network is a network of tramways forming the core element of the public transport system in Geneva, Switzerland. It is operated by Transports Publics Genevois, and is supplemented by the Geneva trolleybus system and the Geneva bus system.
  Opened in 1862, the network had grown sufficiently by 1920 to serve large parts of the surrounding countryside. However, by 1960 it had contracted to just one line. Since 1995, it has been greatly expanded. It presently has five tram lines, and further expansions are planned.
context_section_description: In 1978, the tracks of the last remaining tramway were renewed under the auspices of the "new" TPG. Planning of the proposed new lines was addressed.  However, it was only on 12 June 1988, with the adoption of a new cantonal law about public transport, that the first concrete building proposals were presented.  From 1995, these proposals then became the basis of larger network extensions.
  By that time, the most pressing modernisation of existing operations had already occurred. In 1984, in Bachet-de-Pesay in the municipality of Lancy, construction work had begun on the new Bachet tram depot. To connect the new facility with the existing network, the route of line 12 was extended on 27 September 1987 by one kilometre (0.6 mi) from Carouge to Bachet. The sidings and maintenance facility in Bachet were opened in 1988, and in 1990 the associated tram and trackwork construction workshop was commissioned.  Finally, in 1992, the new administration building was opened.  Since then, it has been the headquarters of the TPG.
  In 1987–1989, the TPG procured a total of 45 new, partly low floor, articulated trams, based on the prototype Be 4/6 tram no. 741, which had joined the TPG fleet in 1984.  The new trams were supplied by Ateliers de Constructions Mécaniques de Vevey (ACMV) in Villeneuve, Vaud, in collaboration with Düwag and BBC / ABB. The colloquial expression "DAV", which is used to denote these vehicles, is an acronym for Düwag - Ateliers de Vevey. Following this new procurement, TPG's existing fleet of old trams could be completely withdrawn, as future network expansion, including the introduction of new lines 13 and 16, had already been taken into account when the order for the new trams was placed.
caption: The same kind of car, No. 708, as seen from above, 1973
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