Société de Transports de l'Agglomération Stéphanoise

The Société de transport de l' Agglomà Stéphanoise, STAS short, is a public transport company in the French town of Saint- Étienne. It belongs to Veolia Transportation, which operates the traffic on behalf and for the account of the purpose of the Association Saint Étienne Métropole. It is a coalition of 43 churches - 29 of them are connected to the transport network of the STAS. The network of STAS includes the three lines of the tramway Saint- Étienne, a trolleybus line in Saint- Étienne as well as the bus and coach transport in the Greater Saint- Étienne and Grand greed.

History

The town of Saint -Étienne heard - along with Lille and Marseille - the three cities in France, where the tram has survived the closure of the postwar wave. The beginnings of the tram back to the year 1881, when the first meter gauge steam tramway was CFVE briefly opened by the Compagnie des chemins de fer à voie étroite de Saint -Étienne, Firminy, Rive - de-Gier et extentions. Beginning in 1901, the paths of the Chemins de fer départementaux de la Loire, short CFDL, were added. The latter, however, were decommissioned in the 1930s due to high operating losses.

Electric trams drove However, since 1897, when the Tramway Électriques de Saint -Étienne into operation. By 1914, the network of CFVE was electrified. 1932 merged both companies. In the following years the coach brought competition for ever more, and the first tram lines had to be stopped.

During the Second World War, the city decided to abolish the streetcar and its replacement by trolleybuses. The first line was changed on 1 January 1942 trolleybus operation. Until 1952, only the line 4 was left. Ultimately, it is only thanks to the passengers of the tram that this important but outdated line was saved. After lengthy persuasion of a passenger association, which had to contend with the opposition of the press, politics and car lobby, we were finally able to push through the purchase of new cars. 1958 new vehicles were purchased by the type PCC cars Brussels by model.

The new car was followed by a complete modernization of the line. They created their own routes and designed the new stops. 1980 was the CFCE on to the newly formed STAS. Soon after, the tariff system was redesigned and included the one-man operation on 1 November 1982. On February 17, 1998, inaugurated by the end of the Second World War, with the extension of the distance of 1.5 kilometers to the south, the first new line in France.

The transport network of STAS

A total of three tram lines, a trolley bus and 57 bus lines (some through subcontractors ) operated.

The two zones

The network is divided into two zones Grand Saint- Etienne (with three tram lines, a trolley bus and 43 bus lines) and Grand greed ( six bus lines and four school bus routes ). The two zones are connected with each other by two bus lines, and local trains. A special network card called Oura allows the use of all local trains between the ten stations of its scope and the other lines of public transport.

Tram

Trolleybus

Saint- Étienne is next to Limoges, Lyon, Nancy, one of four French cities where trolleybuses operate. The trolleybus network was up in the 1990s, made ​​up of seven lines. Of this, however, until 2011, only one line remained, all others were converted to diesel operation:

• Line 3 Cotonne ↔ Terre Noire

Depots and Transport Museum

The STAS has four depots:

• Transpôle depot in Saint -Priest -en- Jarez on Rue Pierre Mendès France. Here is the head office of the STAS. This depot is home to 9 hectares buses and trams. It is located near the tram stop Clinique du Parc of T1.
• Transparc depot in Saint-Etienne on Rue Pierre Copel. This area is on 2 acres all trolleybuses and most buses that run in the city center of Saint- Étienne home.
• Depot Pont Chaney in Firminy on Rue Victor Hugo. This depot has an area of ​​3300 square meters and is for the bus lines that emanate from Firminy responsible.
• Depot in Saint- Chamond. Here, the bus lines in the greater Grand are located greed.

When custodian Transpôle also a small transport museum ( Musée des transports urbains de Saint -Etienne and its region ). To see include a steam tram and electric railcars of series "H" from 1907, " J " from the year 1938 and a "PCC " in 1958. Moreover, there is also a trolley and various buses ( VETRA built in 1952 and SAVIEM Year of construction 1966).