Tursib
SC Tursib SA is the name of the urban transport company of Hermannstadt ( Romanian Sibiu ) in Transylvania , Romania . It emerged in 1990 from the predecessor company ITS
Means of transport
According to its own information, Tursib operates 100 buses in 2014 , serving a total of 216 stops on a total of 21 lines . Between the city and the rural community Răşinari (German townspeople village ) went to 2011 Opened in 1905, tramway Sibiu that only as the setting of the city lines Regional tramway wrong. This is to be reactivated for tourist purposes in mid-2014.
Chronology of public transport in Sibiu
- 1904 - Trackless Railway Sibiu (first trolleybus operation in Sibiu)
- 1905 - Tram service from the train station to the Upper Town begins
- 1957 - bus service is introduced
- 1970 - Tram traffic in the old town ceases, the tracks in Heltauer Gasse and on the Großer Ring are dismantled
- 1983 - Tram traffic within the city is switched to trolleybus operation
- 2009 - O-bus operation is discontinued
Intervals
There is no uniform clock scheme. The lines run on weekdays in a wide variety of cycle densities. Everything is there between 30 and 10 minutes (every 20, 15, 13 or 12 minutes). Since several lines overlap on most routes, denser frequencies are created. Many lines offer their frequent daily intervals until 22:00. The tram will most likely run again from mid-2014 for tourist purposes in the summer season on weekends. Start of operation is Monday to Friday at 5:00 am, and closing time is shortly after 11:00 pm.
For the weekend, however, there is a much weaker offer with a 30, 40 or 60-minute cycle (the maximum offer is a 20-minute cycle in the morning on line 17). Some lines do not operate at all on weekends. Start of operation is around 6:00 am, and closing time is around 10:00 pm. No distinction is made between Saturday and Sunday traffic. There is no night traffic.
Reintroduction of the tram
After the first election of Mayor Klaus Johannis in 2000, the reintroduction of the tram was formulated as a long-term goal of the city's infrastructure planning. However, since the cost of this project could not have been raised by the city alone with several hundred million euros, the plans were rejected again. In 2008 the mayor's office officially announced that the tram plans would no longer be pursued. In the meantime, however, there has been a significant rejuvenation of the bus fleet (new vehicles from MAN ) and the contact wires of the trolleybuses have been partially renewed. On November 14th, 2009 the trolleybus traffic was stopped.
Offer improvements from 2008
As of May 2008, a number of offers were expanded in the bus network. The city of Sibiu hopes that this will encourage more citizens to switch to local public transport, as private transport (in addition to the already massive truck transit traffic) in the city had expanded enormously since 2000. The people of Sibiu should be encouraged to leave their car at home and take the bus to work or go shopping. By commissioning new routes as part of the “Premium” project, the mayor's office wants to come closer to this goal. The conditions in local public transport are to be improved so that in future it will cover a significantly higher proportion of the modal split of urban transport. In cooperation with a Dresden consultancy, so-called premium lines were developed, which offer a significantly higher standard than the other lines. Two new bus lines and a new trolleybus line have been in operation since May 1st (A5 train station - Schewisgasse - Goldtal / Valea Aurie , A12 Zibinsmarkt - train station - Vasile-Aron-Viertel and T2 Hippodrom - Lazarett-Viertel ). In addition, pensioners have been promoted for free since that date. Only new MAN and BMC buses operate on the two bus routes. Line A5 runs every 10 to 12 minutes between 5.30 a.m. and 10 p.m., line A12 runs every 10 minutes, and T2 runs every 15 minutes between 5.50 a.m. and 10.10 p.m. From May 5th, a new express bus line was introduced between the airport and the train station (via Radu-Stanca-Theater and the international bus station in Neppendorf), the travel time of which depends on the arrival and departure times of the trains and the arrival and departure times of the planes.
In order to further improve the quality of local transport, around 70 new bus stop shelters (including route map, etc.) should be built throughout the city from October 2008. Of the more than 200 stops, 20 are now equipped according to modern standards. Another 110 are to follow.
Sibiu S-Bahn
Since 2006, private initiators, especially the German Business Club Transylvania , have been calling for the introduction of an S-Bahn in the Sibiu area. This should lead from the Sibiu airport via Neppendorf, the Sibiu main train station and on to Heltau. Another route would be possible from Salzburg via the main train station to Freck. If implemented, this transport system would be the first of its kind in Transylvania . However, the Sibiu administration is skeptical of a short or medium-term realization. Mayor Klaus Johannis announced that an S-Bahn system in the Sibiu area was a utopia, the realization of which could be tackled in the long term at the most, in the period after 2025. In any case, the city administration would not be willing to support the project financially.
Test drives have already been carried out on the planned route - which is owned by the Romanian state railway CFR . Operation would be technically feasible. The Sibiu – Heltau section is currently leased to a private company, which has meanwhile carried out route upgrading measures worth over € 100,000.
See also
Web links
- Official website (Romanian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prezentarea societăţii on www.tursib.ro
- ↑ a b Tribuna: Tramvaiul reporneste din iunie! , April 14, 2014, accessed June 2, 2014
- ^ Holger Wermke: S-Bahn in Sibiu? In: Transylvanian newspaper. November 12, 2008, accessed March 10, 2019 .