Limmat bus

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Limmat Bus AG
legal form Corporation
founding 2001
Seat Dietikon , SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
management Severin Rangosch
(Director)
Walter Zimmermann
( Chairman of the Board )
Branch Land transport ( NACE 4939)
Website limmatbus.ch

The Limmat Bus AG is a Swiss bus company based in Dietikon . It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Aargau Verkehr (AVA) transport company and operates over two dozen routes in the cantons of Aargau , Lucerne and Zurich . They are spread over the regions of Dietikon / Limmattal , Wohlen / Bremgarten and Zofingen / Reiden .

history

As a cost-saving measure, the Wohlen-Meisterschwanden Railway (WM) carried out evening traffic between Wohlen and Meisterschwanden by bus from May 28, 1995 . With the closure of the railway line on May 31, 1997, it extended bus operations to the whole day. As a result of the merger of the World Cup with the Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn (BD) on January 1, 2001, the newly established transport company BDWM Transport AG took over the concession and operation of the Wohlen – Meisterschwanden bus line.

After the Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich (VBZ) put out new tenders for five bus routes in the Limmattal in 2001 , BDWM Transport founded the subsidiary Limmat Bus AG based in Dietikon, where the previous operator, the transport company Hürzeler & Co , founded in 1923 , at 49 Percent was involved. The contract was awarded to Limmat Bus AG in February 2002, which took over operations in the Limmat Valley with the vehicles and employees from Hürzeler when the timetable changed on December 15, 2002. In mid-2003, Johann and Hanna Hürzeler left the board of directors as representatives of Hürzeler + Co. AG and the company sold its stake to BDWM Transport, which thus became the sole owner.

In the Zofingen / Reiden region (lower Wiggertal ), postbuses were responsible for bus transport on behalf of the Wiggertal-Suhrental regional association for decades . In May 2003, DETEC rewritten the lines. The Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and BDWM Transport AG were jointly awarded the contract on January 15, 2004. To operate the bus routes, they formed a consortium called SBB-Bus Zofingen / Reiden (SZR), unofficially called Wiggerbus . As a result, Swiss Post appealed as the unsuccessful applicant, but the Federal Council rejected it on June 10, 2005. Finally, on December 10, 2006, the consortium was able to start line operations with a two-year delay.

In the run-up to the opening of the Uetliberg tunnel of Zurich's western bypass in May 2009, BDWM Transport obtained a concession for the express bus line 444 from Bremgarten via the Uetliberg tunnel to Zurich Enge station , as well as additional courses on weekdays in the morning and evening in the load direction between Oberrohrdorf or Remetschwil and Zurich Enge - for a better differentiation, finally designated as line 445. Despite the concession, the BDWM refrained from setting up an operation here itself, but instead awarded the transport contract to Postbus Northern Switzerland, which in turn went to the Postbus entrepreneurs (PU) Wicki and Steffen, who are based in Freiamt.

The first years of operation of Limmat Bus stopped the decline in passengers in the Limmattal, whereupon the VBZ fundamentally revised the bus network, condensed the offer and tendered the enlarged network, with the exception of the traditionally self-operated bus routes 304 and 307, for a second time for 10 years. Limmat Bus was again awarded the contract to operate the lines in 2012; As of December 2012, VBZ took over some used vehicles for the additional services. For the first time, routes on lines 304 and 308 at Altstetten station were also operationally linked, so that mixed vehicles and chauffeurs from VBZ and Limmat Bus were used on the two lines.

After eleven years, the SBB withdrew from the bus business for business reasons, with the result that BDWM Transport became the sole concessionaire in the Zofingen / Reiden region from December 9, 2017, and operations in Zofingen were henceforth also called Limmat Bus AG.

With the merger of BDWM Transport AG and Wynental- und Suhrentalbahn AG (WSB) to form Aargau Verkehr AG (AVA) on June 19, 2018, Limmat Bus AG also became an AVA subsidiary. The three bus line concessions of the BDWM have since been named AVA, the three operational bus companies of the BDWM have been grouped together under the name Limmat Bus and each act as the transport agent for the concession owners AVA and VBZ.

Line network

Dietikon / Limmattal region

Concession holder
Zurich Transport Authority (VBZ)
business
Limmat Bus AG, Garage Dietikon; Operating contract until the end of 2022.
Line course

Zofingen / Reiden region

Concession holder
Aargau Verkehr AG (AVA); Concession until the end of 2026.
business
Limmat Bus AG, Garage Zofingen
Line course

Wohlen region

Concession holder
Aargau Verkehr AG (AVA); Concession until the end of 2021.
business
Limmat Bus AG, Fahrwangen garage
Line course

Bremgarten region

Concession holder
Aargau Verkehr AG (AVA); Concession until the end of 2022.
business
PostBus Schweiz AG, Northern Switzerland region; Operating contract until the end of 2022.
PU Wicki Transport GmbH, Garage Zufikon (Li 444)
PU Steffen Bus AG, Garage Remetschwil (Li 445)
Line course

Night bus routes

Line course
  • N31 station Dietikon - Bergdietikon - Widen - Berikon - Oberwil-Lieli
  • N32 station Dietikon - Rudolfstetten - Widen - Bremgarten - Wohlen - Villmergen - Sarmenstorf
  • N60 train station Olten - Aarburg - Rothrist - Oftringen - Zofingen - Brittnau - Strengelbach - Vordemwald

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sandro Sigrist: Electric Railway Wohlen – Meisterschwanden . Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 1998, ISBN 3-907579-09-7 , p. 99 .
  2. ↑ Florian Inäbnit, Jürg Aeschlimann: Bremgarten – Dietikon-Bahn - from the overland tram to the S-Bahn . Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 2002, ISBN 3-907579-22-4 , p. 31 .
  3. ↑ Limmat Bus AG was awarded the contract. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 5, 2002, accessed on February 21, 2019 .
  4. ^ Interpellation by National Councilor Hans Ulrich Mathys. Swiss Parliament, June 23, 2006, accessed January 4, 2010 .
  5. ↑ A-Welle: The Wiggerbus is running under new management. Swiss Federal Railways , December 9, 2006, accessed on January 4, 2010 .
  6. ↑ New concessionaire for the Zofingen / Reiden bus company. Zofinger Tagblatt , December 5, 2017, accessed on February 20, 2019 .