Nice Tramway Line 2 at the Airport, April 2019

The western surface section of Nice’s new line T2 tramway opened in 2018 and is catenary free. The Alstom Citadis X05 trams are equipped with Ecopack supercapacitors which are recharged at stops in 20 sec using Alstom’s SRS ground-based static charging technology. The line is the first application of SRS, which is a development of Alstom’s APS ground-level power supply technology. Line T2 provides a link to the Airport and a light rail service for the new commercial/residential developments around Cadam. A