July 19-21, 2011 -- There are tram traffic jams in Prague. Seriously. I've never seen so many streetcars at one time. There must have been at least twenty of them lined up one after another. Prague's tram system is huge, with over 900 tram cars running on 87.6 miles (140.9 kilometres) of track and serving nearly a million daily riders.
Prague also has an extensive subway system that serves 1.5 million passengers every day, which makes it the seventh busiest system in Europe and the most-used in the world on a per capita basis. The Prague subway began operation in 1974 and today it is a modern, efficient system with fast escalators that get you to the sometimes deep underground and rather large stations.
Besides streetcars and the subway, visitors and locals can zip around Praha with an electric bicycle. E-bike rental PREkolo offers fully charged bikes for a little as two hours for eight euros to as much as a weekend rental for 60 euros.
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Here are photos and videos of this special city. Click here to see the photo set on Flickr.
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