Trasporti Pubblici Luganesi

Trasporti Pubblici Luganesi
Basic information
Web presence	www.tplsa.ch
Managing directors	Roberto Ferroni
Lines
bus	14th
TPL network map from December 15, 2019

Central bus station 2009

Funicular after reopening on December 11, 2016

The Trasporti Pubblici Lugano SA (TPL) is a transport company set up in the Swiss city of Lugano operates the city transport and environment. Their shares are owned by the public sector. At the beginning of 2000, it replaced the municipal Azienda Comunale dei Trasporti della Città di Lugano (ACTL), previously Azienda Communale del Traffico Lugano . This in turn had been operating since 1918, when the city took over the ownership of the Società delle Tramvie Elettriche Luganesi (TEL) and operated it independently as Tramvie Comunali di Lugano (TCL).

The TPL operates

• the bus network
• the funicular between the train station and the lower city center

The TPL or its predecessors ACTL / TCL and TEL operated

• 1896–1959 the Lugano tram
• 1954–2001 the Lugano trolleybus
• 1913–1986 the Funicolare degli Angioli funicular

In terms of tariffs, the TPL is part of the Ticino and Misox "Arcobaleno" tariff association .

Lines

line	route	Art
1	Lugano Centro - P + R Fornaci	TPL line
2	Paradiso - Castagnola	TPL line
3	Breganzona - Mercato Resega	TPL line
4th	Lugano Centro - Canobbio	TPL line
5	Manno - Viganello	TPL line
6th	Stazione FFS - Cornaredo	TPL line
7th	Lugano Centro - Pregassona	TPL line
8th	P + R Fornaci - Scairolo	TPL line
9	Viganello - Cureggia	TPL line
10	Albonago - Castagnola	TPL line
12	Lugano Centro - Brè	TPL line
16	Besso - Muzzano	TPL line
F.	Lugano Centro - P + R Fornaci	Park & ​​Ride line
S.	Lugano Centro - P + R Cornaredo	Park & ​​Ride line

History of urban traffic in Lugano

The Lugano railway station was the 1874 Gotthard railway opened. At that time it was the provisional end point of the Ticino valley railway in the Sottoceneri , the route from the Italian border near Chiasso to the north. In 1882, the line over Monte Ceneri to Bellinzona was opened in April and the Gotthard Railway opened in June. However, the station was located above the city, which is why the funicular from the station to the city center was opened in 1886 . In the same year, the Lugano tram opened its first line with three-phase operation 400 volts 40 Hertz, which was fed via a two-pole catenary .

In 1910, the usual direct current operation of trams was switched, but with increased voltage of 1000 volts, which made it easier to connect overland trams . These were the Lugano-Tesserete-Bahn (LT, discontinued 1967), opened in 1909 , the Lugano-Cadro-Dino-Bahn (LCD, discontinued 1967/70) and the Lugano-Ponte-Tresa-Bahn . The high voltage is unusual for trams, which is why no vehicles could be taken over from other tram companies. Because the system was also taken over for the trolleybus operation, which replaced the tram between 1954 and 59, trolleybus operation was discontinued in 2001 because again special vehicles that deviated from the standard would have been necessary.

The funicular to the city center underwent a fundamental renovation in 2014-16. In the meantime there are plans to extend the FLP into the city center, to re-route it in sections and to extend it with a line to Manno. A new Lugano tram is to be created from this.

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  Former trolleybus 126 in 1994

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  The Lugano – Bahnhof SBB funicular before the renovation

swell

• Hans G. Wägli: Swiss rail network / Réseau ferré suisse - Rail profile Switzerland CH + / Le rail suisse en profile CH +. AS Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-909111-74-9
• Adriano Betti Carboncini: Binari ai Laghi. Ferrovie, tranvie e funicolari intorno ai laghi di Como, Varese, Lugano e Maggiore. Editrice Trasporti su Rotaie, Salò 1992, ISBN 88-85068-16-2 , pages 210-249.
• List of rolling stock of the Swiss private railways 1939, 1950, 1962 and 1966. Federal Office of Transport, Bern.

Web links

• Company website (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the commercial register of the TPL  ( 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.  
2. ↑ History of the company on its homepage (in Italian)
3. ^ Rete tram-treno del Luganese. City of Lugano, accessed June 27, 2019 (Italian).