On 14 February the French port city of Brest in Brittany opened its second tramway, the 5.1 km, 11-stop, EUR 225M, line B from a new public transport hub at Gare Gambetta SNCF to Hôpital Universitaire La Cavale-Blanche. There is interchange with line A (14.3km, opened in 2012, now carrying 35 000 passengers/day)) at Place de la Liberté in the city centre. Operator is RATP Dev, Work on the north–south line started in March 2023. The existing fleet of 20 Alstom Citadis low-floor trams was boosted with eight more 32.5m cars built in La Rochelle in 2025 as part of a joint order with Besançon and Toulouse. These cost EUR 28.3M. The new line has a running time of 17 minutes and 25 000 passengers/day are expected. A link has been built between lines A and B to permit trams on the new line to reach the depot. Public transport in Brest is trilingual, French, Breton and English.
Brest had a first-generation tramway system from 1898 until it was destroyed by bombing in 1944. The city ran trolleybuses from 1947 until 1970. 14 February also saw the inauguration of the BHNS bus line D on 4.3km of reserved way between Gare Gambetta and Lambézellec.
A new Alstom Citadis on Brest line B. (D. Cormier
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