Tags: Public Transit System.
The Essen Stadtbahn (German: Stadtbahn Essen) is a 19.6-kilometer (12.2 mi) light rail (Stadtbahn) network in Essen and the two neighbouring cities of Mülheim an der Ruhr and Gelsenkirchen in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia. It forms part of the Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn. Similar to the Frankfurt U-Bahn it is a mixed system of light rail and underground railway. One of its three lines U18 runs completely free of intersections with other traffic.
