Oradea Transport Local
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The Oradea Transport Local RA - abbreviated OTL , Hungarian Nagyváradi Helyi Közszállítási Vállalat - is the urban transport company in the Romanian city of Oradea . It operates five tram and fourteen bus lines.
tram
history
On March 16, 1906, three lines began operating in the city, which was then undergoing modernization. The network was constantly being expanded; in the 1950s there were up to eleven lines in service. Compared to the present day, more routes ran directly through the city center, i.e. within the tram ring. Around 1960, many lines began to be closed, while until the end of the communist era in 1989/90 only the lines to the industrial area west of the city and the extension to the end point of today's line 2, Ioșia , were added. The last line was closed in 1994 on the section from the city center to the Ostbahnhof, but its restoration is planned.
present
The core of today's tram network is a ring route around the city center, which the lines drive on and leave at three branches. As a special feature, red line numbers are used, that is, lines with the letter N (for Romanian negru , black) drive the entire ring clockwise , those with R ( roșu , red) counterclockwise. Line 2 only runs a bit on the southern ring.
1N(Sinteza -) Pod CFR - Gara Centrală ( Central Station ) - Piața Unirii - Pod CFR (- Sinteza) ( ring clockwise )
1RPod CFR - Piața Unirii - Gara Centrală - Pod CFR ( ring counterclockwise )
2 Str.Nufărului - Ioșia
3NNufărului St. - Piața Unirii - Gara Centrală - Nufărului St. ( ring clockwise )
3RNufărului St. - Gara Centrală - Piața Unirii - Nufărului St. ( ring counterclockwise )
vehicles
Oradea is the first city in Romania to have modern low-floor trams. In 2008/09, ten Siemens ULF vehicles were purchased. The tram fleet is supplemented by Tatra cars bought second-hand from Germany. They replaced the worn-out wagons from the socialist era, especially the Timiș 2 open-plan trains . Before that, four-axle trams of the V54 series from Electroputere and various two-axle vehicles operated.
omnibus
Oradea's first bus line ran in 1956, and today fourteen OTL bus lines, in addition to the tram, mainly connect the outskirts with the city center. Lines 19 to 23 are mainly used to transport passengers to and from the shopping centers and do not start until the early morning.
10Gara de Est ( East Railway Station ) - Henrik Ibsen Street
11Gara Centrală ( Central Station ) - Gara Episcopia ( Episcopia Station )
12 Nufărul - Piața Unirii
13 Str.Gheorghe Doja - Piața 1 Decembrie
14thUniversitatea ( University ) - Simcor
15th Hotel Continental - Podgoria
16 Piața 1 Decembrie - Metro
17th Simcor - Piața 1 Decembrie
18thGara Centrală ( Main Railway Station ) - Bihorului Street
19thCarrefour Era - Dacia Pasaj - Carrefour Era ( ring line )
20thNufărul - real, - I - Nufărul ( ring line )
21streal, - I - Str.Doina - real, - I ( ring line )
22ndGara Centrală ( main train station ) - real, - II
23 Carrefour Era - Piața Cetății
Web links
- http://www.otlra.ro (accessed August 21, 2010). OTL website (Romanian, Hungarian, English).
- http://otl.stfp.net/?la=D (accessed on August 21, 2010). Photo gallery (German).
- http://tramclub.org/viewtopic.php?t=5342 (accessed August 21, 2010). Photos from the 1970s (Romanian).
- http://www.istvan.home.ro/ (accessed August 21, 2010). Private page about the history of the tram with pictures (approx.).
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.otlra.ro/informarecalatori/despreotl/istoriatramvaiului (accessed on August 21, 2010). Homepage of the OTL (Romanian).
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 21, 2010). Private homepage on the city's tram history (Hungarian).
