 After the Second Chechen War, little of the infrastructure of both systems was left.The Ministry of Transport of the Chechen Republic, created in 2002, decided not to rebuild the tram system (rated as too expensive, and no longer answering to the city's needs, as it had since lost half of its population).The trolleybus system however was more fortunate, and despite delays, reopened in 2012, but is a fraction of its former operational size.