Baselland Transport

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Baselland Transport
Industry Public transport
Founded1974
Owner canton of Basel-Land
Website www.blt.ch

Baselland Transport AG (BLT) is a Swiss public transport operator in the cantons of Basel-Land, Basel-Stadt, Solothurn and in France. The BLT was founded in 1974, and is owned by the Canton of Basel-Land, located to the south of the city. It transports some 48 million passengers per year, using a fleet of 64 buses and 100 trams over a network of 165 kilometres (103 mi) of bus routes and 65 kilometres (40 mi) of tram routes. [1]

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The BLT jointly operates the Basel tram network with Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB), owned by the canton of Basel-Stadt. Whilst the BVB owns and operates the inner-city network, the BLT owns the infrastructure for five longer suburban routes and operates four of these itself, leaving the fifth to the BVB to operate. All the BLT routes operate over BVB infrastructure in the inner-city. Both are part of the integrated fare network Tarifverbund Nordwestschweiz (TNW), which in itself is part of the three countries-integrated fare network triregio. [2] [3] [4] It also owns and operates the 750 mm (2 ft 5+12 in) Waldenburg railway.

The BLT's suburban routes include the 25.6 kilometres (15.9 mi) long international route 10, which connects Basel with Rodersdorf in the canton of Solothurn, passing through the French commune of Leymen en route.

History

BLT was formed in 1974, through the joining together of four tram and railway companies. These were:

Information

Rail and tram lines

Basel tram network (2009) Basel - Strassenbahnnetzplan.png
Basel tram network (2009)

Baselland Transport owns five 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+38 in) railway lines over which it operates five tram services: [lower-alpha 1] [5]

LineLengthOpenedServices
Basel–Aesch 8.2 kilometres (5.1 mi)190711, E11
Basel–Dornach 6.2 kilometres (3.9 mi)1902 10
Basel–Pratteln 6.2 kilometres (3.9 mi)192114
Basel–Rodersdorf 16.2 kilometres (10.1 mi)1887 10 , 17
Waldenburg 13.1 kilometres (8.1 mi)1880 19

Buslines

Rolling stock

BLT current rolling stock in Basel center Bale tram 082005.JPG
BLT current rolling stock in Basel center
Newly delivered Stadler Tango Tram on a driver training run BLT Tango Batteriestrasse.jpg
Newly delivered Stadler Tango Tram on a driver training run
Power cars
Trailers

Notes

  1. Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe operates line 14 on the Basel–Pratteln railway line.

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References

  1. "Portrait". BLT. Archived from the original on 2012-02-11. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2009. pp. 110–111. ISBN   978-3-89494-139-0.
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