Egged
| Egged Israel Transport Cooperative Society Ltd | |
|---|---|
 
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| Basic information | |
| Web presence | Egged website |
| Employee | 6227 |
| Lines | |
| bus | 945 |
| number of vehicles | |
| Omnibuses | 3030 |
Egged Israel Transport Cooperative Society Ltd. ( Hebrew אֶגֶד - אֲגֻדָּה שִׁתּוּפִית לְתַּחְבּוּרָה צִיבּוּרִית בישראל, translit. Eged - Aguddah Schittufit leTachburah Tsibburit bIsra'el , German association - cooperative for public transport in Israel ) is the name of the largest bus company in Israel based in Tel-Aviv-Jaffa.
history
The cooperative was founded in 1933 as a result of a merger of four smaller bus companies in or from the Tel Aviv region. 1951 merged with the Shahar Bus Company, active in the north, and the Drom Yehuda Bus Company from the south. The Hamekasher Bus Company from Jerusalem followed in 1961.
The burned-out wreckage of the Egged bus that was destroyed in the coastal road attack on March 11, 1978 is exhibited in the company museum in Holon .
After repeated attacks on buses, during the Second Intifada the indiscriminate terror of militant Palestinians against the Israeli civilian population was temporarily concentrated on buses carrying several suicide attacks. Since then, the company has had 71 armored buses for routes at risk.
Until a ban by the Israeli Supreme Court in January 2011, Egged also used so-called “ Mehadrin buses ” between some ultra-orthodox towns and residential areas , in which women were only allowed to sit in the back of the bus. The term Mehadrin generally stands for the voluntary over-fulfillment of religious regulations in Judaism .
Business activities
In 2009 Egged transported around 1 million passengers a day with over 6,000 employees. Sales in 2009 were around 2.866 billion shekels (around € 580 million). With its fleet of around 3,000 vehicles and an extensive network of 945 lines, the bus company is one of the largest in the world. The company maintains a tight network of overland and urban lines across the country and is the main public transport operator in Israel. The company also has interests in bus companies in Bulgaria through a subsidiary. According to different information, Egged ranks second or third among the world's largest bus companies (behind Greyhound and Transport for London ).
Bus stations
The central bus stations ( Tachaná Merkazít תחנה מרכזית) that the company operates in the cities are usually also called Egged . The most important of these bus stations is in Tel Aviv and is called Tel Aviv Central Bus Station ; The multi-storey facility is used by several thousand buses every day and was entered in the Guinness Book of Records in 1996 as the largest bus station in the world .
Investments abroad
Egged has been operating public transport in the Polish cities of Warsaw and Krakow through a subsidiary since 2007. It has been represented on the Dutch market with its subsidiary EBS-Bus since 2011.
Web links
- Egged Hebrew website
- Egged website in English
- Zeit-Online, April 8, 2009, In the beginning there was the bus
Individual evidence
- ^ Raymond Russell: Utopia in Zion: the Israeli experience with worker cooperatives . SUNY Press, Albany, NY, 1995, ISBN 978-0-7914-2443-8 , pp. 134-141.
- ^ Egged website Who Are We? (English)
- ↑ In brief: The world's largest bus station, Wirtschaftsblatt, of September 14, 1996 ( Memento of May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ New "Egged" routes in the Netherlands. In: Israelnetz .de. August 29, 2019, accessed September 3, 2019 .