A long-term plan was adopted in 1962. The plan said that 6 tram lines - the lines No. 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, and 16 - should be kept as streetcar lines, and the rest should be transferred into bus lines.

To modernize the tramway system 100 new trams was ordered at the tram factory Düwag in Düsseldorf, Germany. The order could be extended with 100 more trams.

In September 1967 the last Düwag trams was delivered. The trams were completed in Copenhagen and began to run in 1968.

Allready in 1969 the long-term plan was changed. All streetcar lines should be closed down in 1972 at the latest.

April the 22nd 1972 was the last day to see the colorful electric streetcars in the traffic of Copenhagen.

One of the Düwag trams was burned, so it was only 99 trams, which were shipped for Egypt.

The last ones of these streetcars were built only 4 years before the tramway system was closed down.

Not even one of the trams was left back in Copenhagen, as a memory of the past tramways of Copenhagen.

Most of the trams are still running in Alexandria, Egypt (2005).