IJsselsteiners have been complaining about the squeaking noise of the tram for a year and a half. “If the first tram with that screeching sound goes through your front yard at half past four, you sit up straight in your bed,” said alderman Peter Bekker in June 2021. Several times the province, which is responsible for the tram line, thought it had a solution. , but the shrill sound kept coming back.