Dresden has an excellent public transport network. The DVB (Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe) runs 12 tram lines and a dense bus network that together cover everything you are likely to want to see; a one-day pass is cheap and lets you hop on and off freely. For getting up to the villa suburbs on the north side of the Elbe, the two historic Loschwitz cable railways from 1895 and 1901 are worth taking for their own sake. And no visit to Dresden is complete without a trip on one of the Saxon Steamship Company's paddle steamers — eight of them, the oldest still-operating paddle-steamer fleet in the world — which ply the Elbe between the city, Pillnitz, and the cliffs of Saxon Switzerland. The S-Bahn suburban rail network connects the centre with Meißen, Pirna and the national park. Most visitors won't need a car; if you have one, leave it on the edge of the city and use the trams.