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 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