The Bombardier Flexity Outlook is a series of low-floored

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s of the multi-articulated type, manufactured by

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. Part of the larger Bombardier Flexity product line (many of which are not low-floor), Flexity Outlook vehicles are modular in design and commonly used throughout Europe.

Types

Bombardier markets two types or families of designs as "Flexity Outlook".

Eurotram

The Eurotram was a design of electric tramcars designed by for use on the network of the '' Compagnie de Transports Strasbourgeois'' (CTS). It is initially contracted to Socimi and ABB. After Socimi went bankrupt, the order for Eurotrams was completed by ABB Group. Later models were manufactured under successor companies

Adtranz Adtranz was a multi-national rail transportation equipment manufacturer with facilities concentrated in Europe and the US. The company, legally known as ABB Daimler-Benz Transportation, was created in 1996 as a joint venture between ABB and Daim ...

and

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Bombardier began to market this type as Flexity Outlook (E), when they made them until 2004.

Cityrunner

The more common Cityrunner, which has a more traditional tram design, is used by several cities in

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(in

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Linz Linz (Pronunciation: , ; ) is the capital of Upper Austria and List of cities and towns in Austria, third-largest city in Austria. Located on the river Danube, the city is in the far north of Austria, south of the border with the Czech Repub ...

and

Graz Graz () is the capital of the Austrian Federal states of Austria, federal state of Styria and the List of cities and towns in Austria, second-largest city in Austria, after Vienna. On 1 January 2025, Graz had a population of 306,068 (343,461 inc ...

), also

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), and

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), and vehicles for

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, (

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)

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(both

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(

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) and

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) are in the design and production phase. (Although the

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has ordered the Flexity Outlook Cityrunner for its legacy system,

Metrolinx Metrolinx is a transportation agency in Ontario, Canada. It is a Crown agency that manages and integrates road and public transportation in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). It was created as the Greater Toronto Transportation Au ...

has ordered the

Flexity Freedom The Flexity Freedom is a Low-floor tram, low-floor, Articulated tram, articulated light rail vehicle developed by Bombardier Transportation, and later Alstom, for the Light rail in North America, North American market. It is marketed as part of ...

for Toronto's new

Eglinton Crosstown line Line 5 Eglinton, also known as the Eglinton Crosstown LRT or the Crosstown, is a light rail transit line that is under construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that will be part of the Toronto subway system. Owned by Metrolinx and operated by t ...

that is under construction along

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in mid-Toronto.) While most Flexity Outlook trams are bi-directional, the Toronto cars are single-ended in order to meet the operating requirements of that city's legacy streetcar routes. Bombardier has built single-ended Flexity Outlook versions for cities including Graz, Łódź and Milan. The Flexity Outlook Cityrunner has a modular design, allowing it to be customised for use on networks that require narrow vehicles or nearly unique tight curve radii, down to in the case of Toronto. Toronto's version of the Outlook is gauged to fit its legacy streetcar lines, with a track gauge of . Its closest competitors are the Citadis from

Alstom Alstom SA () is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer which operates worldwide in rail transport markets. It is active in the fields of passenger transportation, signaling, and locomotives, producing high-speed, suburban, regional ...

, the

Combino The Siemens Combino is a low-floor tram produced by Siemens Mobility (formerly Duewag). The first prototype was produced in 1996 at the Duewag works in Düsseldorf; the trams were later built in Krefeld- Uerdingen. Due to its modular design u ...

and S70 from

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, and Bombardier's other Flexity trams.

Olympic Line

Bombardier Transportation operated a Flexity Outlook demo system in Vancouver from January 21 to March 21, 2010, coinciding with the

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. The trams were on loan from a fleet of Flexity Outlook series made for the Brussels tram network. The service was called the Olympic Line and used electrified railway right-of-way owned by the City of Vancouver and not part of the regional transit authority ( TransLink). The temporary line operated from

Granville Island Granville Island is a peninsula and shopping district in the Fairview neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, across False Creek from Downtown Vancouver, under the south end of the Granville Street Bridge. Formerly an industrial ...

to near

Olympic Village Station Olympic Village is an underground station on the Canada Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain (Vancouver), SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located at the intersection of Cambie Street and West 2nd Avenue, adjacent to the Cambie Street ...

on the Canada Line at 2nd Avenue. Service consisted of a link with two stations, with cars operating every 10 minutes.

References

External links

Flexity official site
{{Flexity Tram vehicles of Austria Tram vehicles of Belgium Tram vehicles of France Tram vehicles of Italy Tram vehicles of Poland Tram vehicles of Portugal Tram vehicles of Spain Tram vehicles of Switzerland

Flexity Outlook The Bombardier Flexity Outlook is a series of low-floored trams of the Two-rooms-and-a-bath car, multi-articulated type, manufactured by Bombardier Transportation. Part of the larger Bombardier Flexity product line (many of which are not low-floo ...