First try with the big blue “U”

The sixties were a very important decade to Bielefeld’s urban development, it transformed into a metropolis, a capital for the eastern Westphalia, although in its heart it has ever been a little town. While other cities (like New York!) abandoned the urban light rail (“everyone needs a car, so who needs a trolley?”), Bielefeld and the Rhine Ruhr Area made their network go underground in the city centres. The new Bielefeld University was founded in 1969, today with 26,000 students.
Later, in the 1970s, the first serious economic crisis after the war came over Germany and Bielefeld with its 320,000 citizens. The money went out, the underground tram (partially completed with one station in 1971) was cancelled and the city’s traffic problems became urgent. Every rush hour the whole city stood still, trams got stuck in endless traffic jams.