Bus company Grenchen and the surrounding area

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Bus company Grenchen and the surrounding area
Bus company Grenchen and surroundings Logo.svg
Basic information
Company headquarters Grenchen
Web presence Web presence
Board Peter Vogt
Managing directors Hans-Rudolf Zumstein
Transport network Libero tariff association
Employee 46
Lines
bus 14th
number of vehicles
Omnibuses 20th
other vehicles 3 (workshop trolley etc.)
statistics
Passengers 2.1 million per year
Mileage 1.27 million km per year
Length of line network
Bus routes 77.6 km

The bus company Grenchen und Umgebung ( BGU ) is a regional public transport company in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland . A public limited company since 1975, the majority of the company is publicly owned (cantons of Bern and Solothurn , communities in the Grenchen region ).

Thirteen lines with a total length of 77.684 kilometers provide access to the city of Grenchen as well as Lengnau BE , Bettlach SO , Selzach , Altreu , Lommiswil , Arch , Büren a. A. , Rüti bB and the Grenchenberg . With 20 buses and 42 employees, 2,186,067 passengers are transported annually.

history

In 1918 the first attempt was made to introduce a bus service in Grenchen. However, this company only survived three years due to financial problems. It was not until 1945 that a bus company was re-established, and with the support of the local watch industry, cantonal and state subsidies were even dispensed with. As a result of the watch crisis, bus operations became financially tight, which is why today's stock corporation was founded in 1975. This has not changed in its form since then, but there has been successively more and more progress with regard to the timetable and bus fleet.

Line network

line route
21st Grenchen Lingeriz - Grenchen Postplatz - Grenchen Süd train station - Grenchen Gummenweg
22nd Grenchen Holzerhütte - Grenchen Postplatz - Grenchen Süd train station - Grenchen BBZ
23 Grenchen Allmend - Grenchen Nord train station - Grenchen Süd train station - Airport
24 Grenchen Weinbergstrasse - Grenchen Postplatz - Grenchen Süd train station - Bettlach Post
25th Grenchen Monbijou - Grenchen Nord train station - Grenchen Postplatz - Grenchen Süd train station - Bettlach Post
26th Grenchen Süd train station - Grenchen Postplatz - Bettlach Post - Bettlach train station
27 Grenchen Postplatz - Grenchen Süd train station - Staad
29 Grenchen Allmend - Grenchen Postplatz - Grenchen Süd train station - Grenchen Gummenweg (evening course)
30th Grenchen Lingeriz - Grenchen Postplatz - Grenchen Süd train station - Bettlach Post (evening course)
31 Bettlach train station - Bettlach Post - Bettlach Allmend
32 Grenchen Sonnmatt - Grenchen Süd train station - Grenchen Postplatz - Altreu - Selzach - Lommiswil
33 Grenchen Oele - Grenchen Süd train station - Airport - Arch - Rüti near Büren - Büren on the Aare
34 Grenchen Postplatz - Grenchen Süd train station - Grenchen Sonnmatt - Lengnau
38 Grenchen Süd train station - Grenchen Postplatz - Holzerhütte - Lower Grenchenberg

vehicles

  • Last Citaro I No. 14 that is still on the road with the BGU.

  • The Citaro Facelift CNG 25 with full natural gas advertising.

  • The Citaro C2 NGT 29 at Grenchen Süd train station.

  • Citaro C2 Ü 20 in Grenchen.

Most of the buses consist of Citaro C2 NGT, and there are still a few Citaro Facelift CNG (No. 24-27) that have been replaced by C2 NGT since 2019. There are 2 articulated buses, a Citaro Facelift with natural gas drive (No. 28) and a Citaro C2 G diesel (No. 8). There is also a Diesel C2 Ü (No. 20) which runs on the BGU network but can also be used for extra trips outside the BGU network. The BGU has a Setra 431 DT (No. 9) for student courses.

Web links

Commons : BGU  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b story. bgu.ch, accessed on May 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c facts and figures. bgu.ch, accessed on May 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Grenchner Tagblatt: New gas hybrid buses for the BGU Grenchen. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .