Odense Letbane backed up by the city council. A formal agreement between the State, the region of Southern Denmark and the municipality of Odense dated 23 June 2014 constituted the official declaration of financial support to the tramway project by the State and the Region. On 5 February 2015, the construction regulation "Law on Odense Letbane" was approved by the Danish parliament, Folketinget, after which it was possible to form a construction company Odense Letbane P/S to implement the project. In August 2012, the competition for the design and visualization consultancy for the Odense Tramway was won by a team consisting of
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