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The name was soon adopted for Hamburg's city-owned street-independent mass transit lines. (There was also a Reichsbahn-owned and operated S-Bahn in Hamburg ). Hamburg , Berlin U-Bahn , Nuremberg , and Munich fit the criteria for a Metro . (Fast, electrically operated Train s, completely independent from other traffic). One line in Frankfurt also meets these criteria. As the Post- World War II rebuilding led to some wealth and prosperity in West Germany , the German car fanaticism motivated many larger city councils to plan the replacement of the "car traffic obstructing" Tramways with U-Bahn systems and additional Bus lines. Nuremberg and Munich decided for a full subway (like those in Berlin and Hamburg ) independent from their existing tramways. It was thereby intended to abandon the tramways by the 1990s. Stuttgart , Frankfurt , Köln ( Cologne ), Bonn , Düsseldorf , Duisburg , Bochum , Essen , Dortmund , Gelsenkirchen , Herne , Mülheim An Der Ruhr , Hanover and Bielefeld started to build Tunnel s for their existing tramway cars, rebuilding existing tramway lines under ground. Those systems of classical tramways routed through Tunnel s in Downtown areas do not meet the criteria for a metro; they are Light Rail systems. Nonetheless, they are usually referred to as U-Bahn. Officially, they are called ''Stadtbahn'' (City Railways) or ''U-Stadtbahn''. During the 1990s (when, according to original planning, the tramways of Nuremberg and Munich were scheduled to disappear) a reorientation process set in. Shortage of money, increased rider numbers, and the insight that larger streets only attract even more cars slowed the building of Subway lines and led to a renaissance of the tramways in those cities that had forgotten them. In Nuremberg and Munich , after 30 years new rolling stock was purchased, existing lines were modernized, and new ones were built, leading to new integrated traffic concepts. Today, Berlin and Munich both have not only buses, but also tramway, S-Bahn, and U-Bahn systems, each with non-shared tracks and different vehicles. German cities with U-Bahn systems
Austrian cities with U-Bahn systems
German cities with Light Rail (Stadtbahn) systems
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