Mobility
Luxtram Opens Cloche d'Or Extension as Daily Ridership Tops 130,000
The 1.6 km southern stretch finally connects the business park to the central Findel airport line — eight months later than originally planned.
The Luxtram network welcomed passengers onto its Cloche d'Or extension on Sunday morning, eight months later than initially scheduled, in a quiet inauguration attended by Mobility Minister Yuriko Backes and Mayor Lydie Polfer.
The 1.6 km southern leg, which connects the central Hamilius interchange to the Cloche d'Or office cluster via the Bonnevoie depot, adds three new stops and lifts the network's total length to 17.4 kilometres. Daily ridership across the system has now topped 130,000, according to operator-supplied figures, up from roughly 110,000 a year ago.
Delayed by signalling
The extension was originally due to open in March, but cross-system signalling tests with Luxembourg's CFL national rail network repeatedly failed validation, an Étude review of project documents shows. Luxtram and CFL completed a final round of validation in early October.
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