On March 5, 1908, the bell of the tram from the Bund to Jing 'an Temple rang, and the first tram in Shanghai was officially opened to traffic, which opened the prelude to Shanghai, the largest metropolis in the Far East. Since then, long-distance buses, taxis and trucks have emerged as the times require, showing the diversified pattern of Shanghai's urban traffic and bringing prosperity and excitement to the Shanghai beach.
In the early days of liberation, there were 44 bus lines in Shanghai, with 934 vehicles in operation and 237 million passengers per year. By the early 1990s, Shanghai's public transport had reached an annual passenger volume of nearly 5 billion passengers, with an annual operating mileage of 65.438+0.386 million kilometers, with a scale of 408 lines and 6562 buses.