Odense Letbane Odense Letbane Odense Letbane (Odense Tramway) is a planned tram system in Odense, Denmark. The first phase is scheduled to open in 2020. The tramway will start in Tarup in the north-western part of Odense, travel via the central train station, the University of Southern Denmark, and the new hospital reaching its final destination in Hjallese in the southernmost part of town. The first line will consist of 14.5 kilometers of tracks and will have 26 stations. Expected number of passengers is 34,000 daily. The total budget is 3.3 billion Danish krone (2017 numbers). The tramway is financed by the
Odense Letbane will run every 15 minutes. Runtime from the two terminals will be 42 minutes. There has been some criticism about the project, due to high costs and due to the tramway potentially being underused once built, due to slow speeds caused by sharing its tracks with road traffic and pedestrians for major portions of the route, being almost entirely shared inside Odense itself. This has also caused some criticism of the name "Odense Letbane" (Odense light rail) as the line will be a tram, not a light rail system. Odense Letbane Odense Letbane (Odense Tramway) is a planned tram system