Oradea Transport Local

The Oradea Transport Local R. A. - Abbreviated OTL, Hungarian Nagyváradi Helyi Közszállítási Vállalat - is the urban transport companies in the Romanian city of Oradea. It operates five tram and bus fourteen lines.

Tram

History

On March 16, 1906 three lines took over the business at the time the sign of modernization standing city. The network has steadily increased in the 1950s were up to eleven lines go. Compared to the present time more routes ran directly through the city center, that is within the tram ring. Around 1960 began the attitude of many lines, while by the end of the communist era in 1989/90, only the routes to the west of the city 's industrial area and the extension to the end point of today's Line 2, Josiah were added. The last stretch was closed in 1994 on the section from downtown to the Ostbahnhof, its restoration is planned, however.

Presence

Core of today's tram network forms a ring route around the city center, which is traveled at three branches by the lines or leave. Lines with the letter N ( for Rumanian. Negru, black) drive the complete ring clockwise, those with R ( Rosu red) counter-clockwise. Line 2 goes only one piece on the southern ring.

1N ( Sinteza - ) Pod C.F.R. - Gara CENTRALA (Hauptbahnhof) - Piata Unirii - Pod CFR ( - Sinteza ) ( ring clockwise)

1R Pod C.F.R. - Piata Unirii - Gara CENTRALA - Pod CFR ( Ring counter-clockwise )

2 Str Nufărului - Josiah

3N Str Nufărului - Piata Unirii - Gara CENTRALA - Str Nufărului ( ring clockwise)

3R Str Nufărului - Gara CENTRALA - Unirii Square - St. Nufărului ( ring counter-clockwise )

Rolling stock

Oradea is the first and only city in Romania, operating in the modern low-floor trams. In the years 2008/ 09 ten vehicles of the type Siemens ULF were purchased. The tram fleet will be completed by hand acquired Tatra cars from Germany. They replaced the worn-out cars from the socialist era, most notably the large-capacity type trains Timiş2. Previously perverted four-axle trams Series Electro Putere V -54 as well as various two-axle vehicle.

Bus

The first bus line wrong Oradea in 1956, now fourteen bus routes connect the OTL, in addition to the tram, especially the suburbs with the city center. The lines 19 to 23 serve primarily of passenger transportation to or from the shopping malls and set only one from the early morning.

10 Gara de Est ( East Station ) - St. Henrik Ibsen

11 Gara CENTRALA (Hauptbahnhof) - Gara Episcopia ( station Episcopia )

12 Nufarul - Unirii Square

13 Str Gheorghe Doja - Piata 1 Decembrie

Universitatea 14 (University) - Simcor

15 Hotel Continental - Podgoria

Piata 1 Decembrie 16 - Metro

17 Simcor - Piata 1 Decembrie

18 Gara CENTRALA (Hauptbahnhof) - Str Bihorului

19 Carrefour Era - Dacia Pasaj - Carrefour Era ( ring line)

20 Nufarul - real, - I - Nufarul ( ring line)

21 real, - I - Str Doina - real, - I ( ring line)

22 Gara CENTRALA (Hauptbahnhof) - real, - II

23 Carrefour Era - Piata Cetăţii