Transport company STI
| Verkehrsbetriebe STI AG | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Tuna |
| Web presence | www.stibus.ch |
| Board | Zaugg Hans-Rudolf, President, 1999 Gosteli Markus, Vice-President, 2010 Gauler Samuel, 1999 Gosteli Markus, 2010 Mani-Rinklin Verena, 2001 Hertel Battaglia Christine, 2005 Gauler Samuel, 1999 Gimmel Roman, 2011 |
| Operations management | Thomas Wegmann Bähler Markus Seiler Erich Lehmann Jürg Stettler Hans-Jürg |
| Employee | 316 |
| Lines | |
| bus | 21 course lines |
| Other lines | 7 Moonliner lines (night lines) |
| number of vehicles | |
| Omnibuses | 76 |
| statistics | |
| Passengers | 15.8 million |
| Length of line network | |
| Bus routes | 440 km |
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The transport company STI AG , formerly transport Steffisburg-Thun-Interlaken, STI, right shore of Lake Thun originally (until 1958) AG right bank of Lake Thun Railway, Electric Train Steffisburg-Thun-Interlaken , are a Swiss transport company , based in Thun in the canton of Bern . Until about 1964 the company itself wrote its acronym STJ, since then STI. The company was founded on December 16, 1911. Today it operates all bus routes departing from Thun and is also responsible for managing the Thunersee-Beatenberg-Bahn ( funicular ) and the connecting Niederhornbahn ( group cable car ) .
history
Tram
The first section of the overland tram led from Steffisburg via the Thun train station to Oberhofen am Thunersee and went into operation on October 10, 1913. The corresponding license was granted on December 19, 1905. The railway, also known as the right bank Thunerseebahn , to distinguish it from the Thunerseebahn (which has run along the left bank since 1893) , was extended from Oberhofen to the Beatenbucht tourist center on December 24th of the same year. On June 20, 1914, the last extension from Beatenbucht to Interlaken followed .
As early as December 18, 1939, the tram between Beatenbucht and Interlaken was replaced by buses . The remaining tram route was also gradually shut down and replaced by trolleybuses or buses: Merligen – Beatenbucht on January 31, 1952, Gunten – Merligen on April 6, 1952, Thun – Gunten on August 10, 1952 and finally the remaining one on May 31, 1958 Section between Steffisburg and Thun.
Trolleybus
From 1952 to 1982 trolleybuses operated on the Thun – Beatenbucht route.
Bus
The bus service between Beatenbucht and Interlaken, which began in 1939, has been gradually expanded over the years. For a long time, the Thun City Bus Company (SAT) rented out buses, some of which were procured especially for this purpose. These vehicles (3 Saurer and 12 Mercedes) were bought by SAT on January 1, 1982. In 1992, STI merged with Autoverkehr AG Gunten-Sigriswil (AGS). On November 5, 1993, a night bus was introduced between Bern and Thun , which operates today under the name Moonliner . On January 1, 1997, the STI took over the concession, vehicles (21 Volvo buses) and staff (46 people) from the Thun municipal bus (SAT) and, retrospectively, to January 1, 1996, Autoverkehr Thun-Goldiwil-Heiligenschwendi AG (ATGH ). This was followed by the acquisition of car traffic Thun-Stocken Gürbetal (TSG) AG in 1998, and the traffic AG Heimenschwand (AvH) in 1999. Since autumn 1997 operate on the town line two station-Neufeld-Schorenfriedhof low-floor - articulated buses . On October 1, 1999, articulated buses were introduced for the first time on the line to Gwatt and three-axle vehicles on the two lines to Heiligenschwendi. On June 10, 2001 of the Canton of Bern was to replace the regional trains Thun-Spiez bus line Steffisburg-Thun to order Spiez put into operation, which was created by extending existing lines and merger in Thun and Spiez (ASKA). Also since June 10, 2001, the STI has been offering GPS- coordinated passenger information and has a fully digitized ticket management system. In 2002, low-floor articulated buses followed on line 5, train station – Dürrenast – Schorenfriedhof, and in 2011, three-axle vehicles on the line to Sigriswil. In 2009, the STI was able to take over the concession for route 33 from PostBus, making Thun Bahnhofplatz a pure STI bus station.
Line overview
| line | route |
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| 1 | Steffisburg Flühli - Thun - Gwatt Deltapark - Spiez (section Thun Bhf - Gwatt Deltapark formerly SAT, section Einigen - Spiez formerly ASKA (Spiez local bus)) |
| 2 | Thun - Neufeld - Schorenfriedhof (formerly SAT) |
| 3 | Blumenstein - Allmendingen - Thun - Alte Bernstrasse - Heimberg Dornhalde (section Thun Bhf - Allmendingen formerly SAT and Thun Bhf - Stocken - Blumenstein formerly TSG) |
| 4th | Thun - Lerchenfeld (formerly SAT) |
| 5 | Thun - Dürrenast - Schorenfriedhof (formerly SAT) |
| 6th | Thun - west quarter |
| 21st | Thun - Oberhofen - Beatenbucht - Interlaken Ost |
| 22nd | Untere Wart - Hünibach - Höhenweg - Hilterfingen - Cemetery - Oberhofen - Tannacker ("Hangbus") |
| 24 | Oberhofen - Aeschlen - Schwanden - Sigriswil (formerly AGS) |
| 25th | Thun - (urgent) Gunten - Sigriswil (section Gunten - Sigriswil formerly AGS) |
| 31 | Thun - Goldiwil - Heiligenschwendi (formerly ATGH) |
| 32 | Thun - Dörfli - Heiligenschwendi (formerly ATGH) |
| 33 | Thun - Steffisburg - Teuffenthal (formerly PostBus ) |
| 41 | Thun - Fahrni bei Thun - Schwarzenegg - Innereriz (formerly AvH) |
| 42 | Thun - Fahrni bei Thun - Schwarzenegg - Süderen - Heimenschwand (formerly AvH) |
| 43 | Thun - Emberg - Heimenschwand (formerly AvH) |
| 44 | Oberdiessbach - Linden - Heimenschwand (formerly AvH) |
| 50 | Thun - Uebeschi - Blumenstein (formerly TSG) |
| 51 | Thun - Wattenwil - Blumenstein (formerly TSG) |
| 53 | Blumenstein - Seftigen train station (formerly TSG) |
| 55 | Thun - Wimmis (formerly TSG and even earlier section Thun - Reutigen PTT) |
| M13 | Kiesen – Oberdiessbach – Linden – Heimenschwand (night bus) |
| M15 | Bern - Thun - Spiez - Interlaken (night bus) |
literature
- Sandro Sigrist: Electric traction on the right bank of Lake Thun . Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 1997. ISBN 3-907579-06-2
- Claude Jeanmaire: Trams and overland railways in Bern and Thun: rolling stock, route, development and history. Publishing house for railway and tram literature, Basel 1969
Web links
- Transport company STI
- The history of the Steffisburg – Thun – Interlaken tram at www.strassenbahn-europa.at
- Right bank Thunerseebahn (STI) In: discontinued-bahnen.ch by Jürg Ehrbar
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1958 annual report of the company File: STI-GB1958.PDF
- ↑ Annual reports of the company up to 1957 File: STI-GB1957.PDF
- ^ Sandro Sigrist: Electric traction on the right bank of Lake Thun . Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 1997. ISBN 3-907579-06-2 , page 117
- ↑ Commercial register of the Canton of Bern ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , (Accessed December 28, 2012)
- ↑ tram (specialist journal for local public transport in Switzerland) 3/97, pages 4–6 and 4/97, pages 3–6
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: TU directory of the Federal Office of Transport ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
