Buses in Vilnius

Vilnius Buses

Founded	1945
Headquarters	52 Verkių gatvėCoordinates: 54°43′15″N 25°17′45″E / 54.72083°N 25.29583°E / 54.72083; 25.29583
Locale	Vilnius, Lithuania
Service type	bus service
Routes	81
Daily ridership	275,380[citation needed]
Website	vilniausviesasistransportas.lt

Scania Citywide LFA bus in Vilnius

Bus in Vilnius, Anadolu Isuzu Citibus

Bus in Vilnius, Neoplan Centroliner

The Vilnius bus network operates bus lines in Lithuanian capital city Vilnius. Up to 420 buses are working on working-days, 250 - on weekends.

History[]

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On November 18, 1945, the Vilnius Bus Company, which buspark was succeeded by 17 old German and Soviet military buses. On March 13, the new regular bus line Žvėrynas - Railway Station, after all, other two lines were opened.

In 1964, the new depot of the existing bus fleet was built in Verkių street.

In 1995, the company was registered as a limited liability company Vilniaus autobusų parkas.

In 2003, company was renamed to Vilniaus autobusai.

In 2004, 90 new Volvo 7700 and Volvo 7700A buses were bought.

In 2011 Vilniaus Autobusai was joined with the trolleybus company Vilniaus Troleibusai and reorganised to Vilniaus viešasis transportas.

After the 2013 bus and trolleybus route reform, selected buses were stored at the second trolleybus depot in Viršuliškės. Also, due to lack of minibuses after the said reform, 12 minibuses were purchased second-hand from Jelgava.

In 2013 and 2014, 19 Solaris Urbino 12 III CNG, 18 MAN A21 Lion's City NL273 CNG and 20 Castrosua City Versus CNG buses were bought.

From 2014 to 2017, several bus routes were handed out to private operators Transrevis, Ridvija which operated minibus routes and Meteorit Turas.

In 2017, a bus renewal period started, which lasted until the end of 2020. Many old buses were scrapped, some older buses were repainted and many new ones were purchased. These include:

• 15 MAN A21 Lion's City NL273 and 15 MAN A23 Lion's City GL NG313 buses (second-hand from Oslo, which were originally built in 2008);
• 100 Solaris Urbino 12 IV buses;
• 50 Solaris Urbino 18 IV buses;
• 50 MAN A23 Lion's City G NG313 CNG buses;
• 10 Anadolu Isuzu Novo Citi Life buses;
• 5 Karsan Jest Electric buses.

The private operators Ridvija and Meteorit Turas no longer operated any routes though Transrevis was given even more of them and replaced its buses with new ones:

• 50 Scania Citywide LFA buses;
• 70 Anadolu Isuzu Citibus buses.

List of operated buses[]

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References[]

External links[]

• (in Lithuanian and English) Official website