While the municipality waited for the request to be approved, they temporarily ran horse-drawn chariots which were unsuitable due to the Macadam roads at the time.

[2] The Royal Ministry of Railways did not respond to Piran's request, however in 1907, the municipality got word that the town of Gmünd successfully set up the first trolleybus line in the Austro-Hungarian empire.

The municipality paid a German company to put up three miles of overhead wire between Piran's Tartini Square and the railway station in Lucija.

The first being the poorly maintained Macadam roads combined with stiff, solid wheels made for a pretty uncomfortable ride.

On the 11th of September 1911, the municipality got word that the Royal Ministry of Railways approved the construction of a tramway linking Piran with Lucija.