Belgian Streetcar Renaissance

The city authorities promised to submit later in March a list of their proposals as to Belgian participation in city development projects, including automotive and electric transport. The latter provoked a special interest among the guests. For it is Belgian companies that built the first streetcar lines here well before the 1917 revolution. The Belgians also owned in the city a number of still-functioning large steel mills and some Nikopol basin manganese mines. The ambassador said Belgium had not forgotten this. Yet, today there is not a single Ukrainian-Belgian joint venture in Dnipropetrovsk oblast.