The proposal for a new outer circle Metrolink tram line, as floated by some analysts, has not made it into Greater Manchester's new transport strategy. But the idea of train-trams has: three new lines ...

The city of Sheffield, U.K. is installing the country's first tram-train, a public transit hybrid that can serve both the suburbs and a city's urban core thanks to a special wheel design that can ...

This article is part of The New Commute, a special report on urban mobility in Europe from POLITICO’s Global Policy Lab: Living Cities. Sign up here. A worker cycles to the train station every morning ...