The expected ridership was 55,000 passengers per day on average, or an annual ridership of 15 million passengers, with a minimum frequency of one train every four minutes during rush hour and an expected average speed of . The cost of building the infrastructure was estimated on 1 January 1983 to be 470 million francs (about 71.65 million euro or 93.5 million US dollars) and the cost of the train equipment to be 135 million francs (about 20.58 million euro or 26.87 million US dollars). The proposed tramway line had transfer points with line 5 of the Paris metro at Bobigny–Pablo Picasso station, with line 7 (via a May 1987 extension) at La Courneuve–8 Mai 1945, with line 13 at Basilique de Saint-Denis (with a walking transfer) and with RER line D at Saint-Denis railway station. It was long and served 22 stations. It was greatly influenced by the Tramway Français Standard of Nantes which had been very successful.