Trolleybuses in Lucerne
The trolleybus Lucerne is the trolleybus system of the Swiss city of Lucerne, one each route leads over the city boundary in the neighboring communities Emmen, Horw, Kriens and the 2010 is my finished Littau. It was opened on 7 December 1941 and replaced until 1961 successively the former tram Lucerne of 1899. Nowadays transport companies Luzern (VBL ) operate six trolleybus lines 25 million passengers are carried annually with a cumulative line length of 30 012 kilometers on which. They are supplemented by several bus lines of the same transport company.
- 3.1 Former
- 3.2 Today
- 3.3 towing a trailer
- 3.4 Volvo autotowers
Lines
The transport department Lucerne operate six trolleybus routes, these are as follows:
Line 1 crosses on their southern branch the border to the neighboring town of Kriens, line 2 leads to the west of Lucerne Emmen location. In addition, the southern terminus of the line 7 is beyond the city limits on the commune Horw.
The lines 6 and 8 operate between Brüelstrasse and Schoenbuehl the same distance, so that on this section by superimposing results in a 5 -minute intervals in the peak hours and a 7.5 -minute intervals in the NVZ. Often used is therefore of the Double Line 6 / 8th
The depot Weinbergli located on the route of the lines 6, 7 and 8
Car replacement bus traffic on line 2
Since the Seetalplatz is expected to 2016, completely rebuilt, set the transport companies Lucerne on line 2 since the timetable change on December 15, 2013 temporary auto busses. This can react flexibly to changes in the traffic management and expensive catenary temporaries are bypassed. To this end, 13 new diesel articulated buses were ordered at short notice at Mercedes -Benz in June 2013. When the works are completed on Seetalplatz, the line should be converted back to 2 trolleybuses.
With the released joint trolley line 2 was also carried out for December 15, 2013 - at the same time clock stretching - the conversion of line 4 on articulated cars. So after 72 years, ended the use of single vehicles, furthermore offer since all Trolleybuskurse at least one barrier-free entrance.
Planning
It is planned to introduce a new Tangentialline 3 from Kriens to Emmen bridge and the extension of Line 1 in hand, showed up Ebikon station.
History
The individual sections went into operation as follows:
Rolling stock
Former
All previously discarded Lucerne trolleybuses were high-floor cars. The two cars 226 and 227 were made in 1980 after its phasing in the new numbers 206 and 207 until 1991 at the Trolleybus Schaffhausen in use. Cars 252 and 253 were evaluated for their decommissioning to driving school cars, the former is still used as such was used during the latter scrapped due to a defect in mid-June 2011. Car 280 now serves as Enteisungswagen.
Today
The regular trolleybus fleet of VBL has 23 solo, 26 joint and three double articulated cars, the former are an additional 16 trailers available. The trolleybus trolleybus Lausanne Lucerne is next to the one is to be found by the world's only two networks in which this form of operation.
Towing a trailer
Because transport company Lucerne met with in the rush hours, especially on Line 1 to Kriens repeatedly to capacity limits, we examined the mid-1990s the use of double- articulated cars, double-decker cars or trailers. To this end, among other things, tests were conducted with a Van Hool AGG 300. However, a related procurement would have been very costly, also cyclists would have been at risk when overtaking and the double -pivot system could only accommodate 25 people more than regular joint trolleys.
Analogous to Lausanne, it was decided, therefore, also in Lucerne for the procurement niederfluriger trailer. This happened at a time when all other except Lausanne Swiss trolleybus had already abolished their followers. In this way, especially the then relatively young solo trolleys of the type BT could be 5-25 continue to be used in Lucerne. After the City Council approved a loan of 25,000 Swiss francs for the reconstruction of the intended for towing carriage 270, could be started with the trailer test drives in March 1996. The regular trailer operation finally began on 17 August 1998 and equipped for towing a trailer, the 19 still held by BT 5-25 remaining with the numbers 260-268 and 270-279.
Volvo autotowers
The older tower car with the internal number 7 comes mainly in the depot area for use, while the newer one is used throughout the network.