Geneva Public Transport
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Geneva Public Transport<ref>"FREE TICKET! Public transport to Geneva Template:Webarchive." Geneva Public Transport. Retrieved on 16 August 2011.</ref> (Template:Langx, TPG) operates most of the public transportation system in canton of Geneva, Switzerland, including the city of Geneva. The agency's head office is in Grand-Lancy, Lancy.<ref>"Contact Template:Webarchive." Geneva Public Transport. Retrieved on 16 August 2011. "Adresse postale Transports publics genevois Case postale 950 Route de la Chapelle 1 1212 Grand-Lancy 1"</ref>
The TPG operates trams, trolleybuses and buses for the canton of Geneva and also serves some regions in neighbouring France. Local rail services are provided by the CFF (Swiss Federal Railways) and the SNCF, and passenger ferries across the lake by the Mouettes Genevoises Navigation. The TPG shares a common fare system (Unireso) with these services and some in neighbouring France so that a single ticket can be used for any public transport within its zones and times of validity.
TimelineEdit
The TPG is the successor organization to the Compagnie Genevoise des Tramways Électriques (Geneva Electric Tramway Company), or CGTE, which operated trams throughout the canton and parts of neighbouring France from 1900 until 1 January 1977.<ref>Template:In lang TPG. History of TPG Template:Webarchive</ref><ref name="tm-278">Box, Roland (March–April 2008). "A Short History of the Genève System". Trolleybus Magazine No. 278, pp. 26-35. National Trolleybus Association (UK). ISSN 0266-7452.</ref>
In December 2003, the TPG began road-testing a Template:Convert, double-articulated, mega-trolleybus manufactured by Hess and Vossloh Kiepe.<ref name="tm-254">Trolleybus Magazine No. 254 (March–April 2004), p. 48. ISSN 0266-7452.</ref> The bus can carry 150 passengers. It entered passenger service in January 2004 on line 10 to the airport.<ref name="tm-254"/> This vehicle was created by adding a middle section to a trolleybus that was originally a single-articulated, Template:Convert vehicle. In 2005–06, TPG purchased ten all-new double-articulated trolleybuses from Hess, length Template:Convert, and they are numbered 781-790. As of late 2006, TPG's fleet included 92 trolleybuses, all articulated (of which eleven were double-articulated).<ref name="tm-271">Trolleybus Magazine No. 271 (January–February 2007), p. 22.</ref>
As of 27 April 2008, the TPG network includes 6 tramway routes, 38 cantonal bus routes, 15 intercantonal (Canton of Vaud) and international (France) bus routes and 12 nighttime bus routes.<ref>Template:In lang TPG. Timetables by route Template:Webarchive</ref>
In December 2010, Line 18 opened, from Avanchet to Coutance; it was extended as far as CERN in May 2011, closed in December 2011 and replaced by Line 14. In December 2012, the tramway was again split into line 14 (Meyrin-Gravière – P+R Bernex) and line 18 (CERN – Carouge).
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Construction started in November 2008 and finished in December 2011. Line 14 originally ran from P+R Bernex to Meyrin-Gravière or CERN,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> but has since then been split into Line 14 (P+R Bernex – Meyrin-Gravière) and Line 18 (Carouge – CERN) in December 2012.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
See alsoEdit
- Trams in Geneva
- Trolleybuses in Geneva
- Buses in Geneva
- Transport in Switzerland
- List of bus operating companies in Switzerland
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
- Template:Official website
- Template:In lang Unofficial Fan website news, resources and history of TPG and CGTE.
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