>the bus network carries more than 680 000 patrons than the tram

Holy shit, how bad was this network?

>>132571
With a lot of these ex soviet tram systems the problem is twofold:

1) The system was built for the travel patterns of the Soviet economy, get the proletariat from the apartment blocks to the big state owned factories and back etc. This all changed after 1991 and tram routes cannot be changed without spending a lot of money.

2) Years of little to no maintenance following the collapse of the USSR, the trams become increasingly unreliable and patrons switch to buses.

>>132573
Surely with a 90km+ network they could have reconfigured the network somehow. I suppose maintenance does play a big role in it (I would hate to be the poor bastard that has to source replacement parts for old Soviet electrical equipment) but it seems weird that they would commit to modernizing and expanding it:
https://www.uzdaily.com/articles-id-7819.htm
And then immediately abandon it.

>>132573

> The system was built for the travel patterns of the Soviet economy, get the proletariat from the apartment blocks to the big state owned factories and back etc. This all changed after 1991 and tram routes cannot be changed without spending a lot of money.

Your face when this genius thought never visited you before.