15th of April 2010 – the last day of the Ryazan tram.
Today Ryazan has said "Good-bye” to our dear little tram. The reason for its "liquidation” is too banal – it isn't profitable enough. But still for a great number of people it remained one of the most important vehicles to get to their jobs to the factories, to their ”dachas” and to three Ryazan graveyards avoiding traffic jams. Trams are said to be substituted by 7 buses, but you know, no bus has this specific charm that trams used to have.
This is really sad. I think that the city government could have found enough money to support the tram service. The tram route is really quite peopled and a lot of city-dwellers needed this transport to get to so many places. For the government it is easier to close down rather than let the company devise its own policies how to keep it and make it a profitable business. But, unfortunately, very often I can see that our country has chosen a strange route of survival rather than a dynamic route of development To develop means to invest into thinking.
