ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft

The " 50 - million -Bus" of ESWE traffic

Uwe Cramer and Stefan Burghardt

ESWE traffic mbH, short ESWE traffic, is the traditional Wiesbaden transport company. The abbreviation goes back on the resolution in 2000, the city works. The letters S and W are advertised here for an advertising campaign for the modernization of the company in 1970 in phonetics, It and We, as well as put in uppercase. Together with its sister company WiBus they promoted in the year to 39 lines with a line length of approximately 563.1 kilometers about 51 million passengers. In addition to the city bus service in Wiesbaden operates ESWE traffic also Nerobergbahn. ESWE traffic has two subsidiaries. ESWE transport service and, together with the Mainz transport company Transport Association Mainz- Wiesbaden ( VMW ).

  • 3.1 Nerobergbahn
  • 3.2 vintage buses
  • 3.3 ESWE Driving School
  • 3.4 Aartalbahn

History

The history of public transport in Wiesbaden began in 1875 with the opening of the first urban horse-drawn tram line, which in 1889 replaced by a steam train. The lines was Nerotal ( then called the final stop yet Beau Site ) - William Street - Stations - Adolph height - Biebrich Rhine.

In 1888 the Three Emperors Nerobergbahn was opened, a water-powered funicular railway ballast.

1894, the first electric tram was put into operation. After eleven years of the highly controversial operation, the steam railway was also superseded by the " electric " in 1900.

In 1929, Wiesbaden presented to a tram line to buses and coaches as the first city in the world. However, in parallel there were still trams Süddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (SEG ), which went on until later in the municipal ownership.

In 1954, the first articulated buses were handed over to traffic and just a year later, the last remaining tram line 8 permanently discontinued. The same fate was suffered by 1961, the two trolleybus lines A and B. In the 1960s, the city planner Ernst May saw the introduction of a subway before, plus it never came.

In 1968, the first bus lanes were introduced.

Mid -1970s, first appeared on the blue ESWE logo, and the vehicles were based on the Nassau national colors orange bottom and surface painted white. In February 1985, it was introduced with the purchase of the first buses of the type Mercedes -Benz O 405, the still current blue-orange - white paintwork.

1990 ESWE established as the second city in Germany ( Cologne ) a passenger advisory board. This met quarterly and should represent the interests of passengers compared to the Traffic Operation and represented. Was there in the early days only sporadic appearances in public, so sold ESWE traffic and passenger advisory board since 2004 on Saturday before the timetable change together the new timetables, with the sale proceeds will each a " good cause " donated. Since 2011, the successor institution of the passenger Forum, which meets every two months, and in addition a so-called experts chat a forum on the Internet and about every two months. However, the passenger Forum suffered from a lack of demand and fell asleep already after one year, also an expert chat came about only in the first year. What remains is now only a forum with at best mediocre response.

In 2000, the transport companies were spun off from the ESWE and converted into an independent corporation. Since then, the supply ESWE AG exist as a municipal power company and the ESWE traffic society as a local transport company.

On 1 October 2004, from Wiesbaden supply and transport Holding ( Warsaw Transport Authority ) and the Hamburg elevated railway ( HHA ), founded in Wiesbaden Bus Company Ltd. started ( WiBus ). The Warsaw Transport Authority held in establishing 51 percent of the shares, the remaining 49 percent of the HHA. The aim was to strengthen the competitiveness of ESWE traffic on the market since the WiBus subject to a different collective agreement and their employees pay much lower salaries. This measure has been held as a consequence of changes in the legal framework for public procurement of transport services necessary. The start-up of WiBus completed the commissioning of external subcontractors Sippel, Papproth and Mester. As a result of differing views and planning of the elevated train to outsource their foreign investments in the BeNex and again to sell 49 percent of BeNex passed at the end of 2007, the Wiesbaden-based urban bodies to acquire the WiBus Shares of Hamburg elevated railway, so that today all the shares of WiBus in possession of the Warsaw Transport Authority are. Another affiliate, WTI ( Wiesbaden Tours International ), formerly manager of the blue Kurautobusse and later worked for many years in addition to other private firms as subcontractors, was in the fall of 2009 into insolvency.

Line traffic

Listed below all buses that are operated by the transport company are ESWE (schedule as of December 12, 2010 ).

Taglinien

( Partial only Monday to Saturday or Monday to Friday):

Tourist line on the weekend in the seasons ( winter):

Abend-/Nachtlinien

Line 6 also operates in night traffic.

The numbers 6, 9, 28, 33, 45, 47 and N7 are legally concession lines with the Mainz Community Transport Company ( MVG).

Special

Nerobergbahn

The moving water ballast historic funicular up to Mount Nero, the Nerobergbahn from 1888, is also maintained and operated by the ESWE transport company. The operating time begins each year during Holy Week and ends in October.

Vintage buses

The restored from the ground up in the workshops of ESWE traffic vintage bus type Daimler -Benz O 317 (chassis, body: cousin ), built in 1961, is used for special trips and also available for hire. Another vintage bus is a properties under construction O 305 (built in 1983). The vehicles are supervised by Oldiebus Club Wiesbaden.

ESWE Driving School

The ESWE transport company has a driving school and forms in classes B, C, and D from CE. There are currently only operating member of ESWE traffic, WIBus and ESWE service included in the driving school.

Aartalbahn

In advance of the proposed construction of a light rail Wiesbaden, the Hessian part of the Aartalbahn was leased by the Deutsche Bahn. This route is currently being driven on at the museum operation of the Nassau Tourist Railway, the management - in accordance with statutory provisions must be performance and network provider separate companies - was part of the city at ESWE settled traffic.

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