Odense Letbane Municipality of Odense, the Danish state and the Region of Southern Denmark. The planned second line consists of 7.5 kilometers of tracks with a budget of 1.9 billion Danish krone. The City Council has decided to work towards establishing a second line. However, there is no construction regulation or co-financing from the Danish state at the moment (August 2018). The tramway in Odense was suggested for the first time in 2008 by the former and late mayor Jan Boye. Since then the municipality of Odense and the region of Southern Denmark have been working with the project, which was unanimously
Odense for a show which resulted in a deficit of 13 million kroner. In the 2013 municipal elections, Boye was successful in obtaining sufficient support from the Liberals and the left to ensure his continuation as mayor from the beginning of 2014. Boye announced in December 2016 that he would resign as mayor on January 1st 2017. The new mayor of Odense would be Peter Rahbæk Juel, also a member of the Social Democrats. Rahbæk Juel succeeded Boye as announced and continues to serve as mayor after the municipal elections in November 2017. Odense is Funen's most important industrial and commercial