Storstockholms Lokaltrafik
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Native name | Aktiebolaget Storstockholms Lokaltrafik |
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Type | Privately held aktiebolag |
Founded | 1916 |
Revenue | 19.269 billion SEK (roughly €1.88 billion) |
Owner | Stockholm County Council |
Website | sl |
Storstockholms Lokaltrafik, or more formally Aktiebolaget Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (Greater Stockholm Local Transit Company) is the organisation running all of the land based public transport systems in Stockholm County. It was previously known as Stockholms Lokaltrafik and is commonly referred to as SL.[1]
History[]
SL has its origins in AB Stockholms Spårvägar (SS), a city-owned public transit company which started in 1915 by the City of Stockholm with the aim to deprivatize the two separate private tramway networks into one more efficient company. SS would in the late 1920s also acquire private motorbus companies. The first part of the Stockholm Metro was opened in 1950. SS was renamed to SL in January 1967 when the metro, local train, and bus operations in Stockholm County were merged into a single organisation under the supervision of Stockholm County Council. The different mass transit systems within the County had until then been run by different organisations, Statens Järnvägar, private companies and companies owned by the local municipalities.
In 1993 SL began to use independent contractors for the operation and maintenance of the different transport systems. For bus traffic the operators own the buses, but for rail bound traffic the SL own the trains, and the contractors operate them.
Contractors[]
The contractors used by SL are as of July 2019 the following:[2]
- Arriva
- Bus traffic in Danderyd, Ekerö, Sollentuna, Solna, Sundbyberg, Täby, Vaxholm, Västerort and Österåker.
- Rail traffic on Saltsjöbanan, Roslagsbanan, Nockebybanan and Tvärbanan.[3]
- Keolis
- Transdev
- Bus Traffic in Sigtuna, Upplands Väsby and Vallentuna.
- MTR Nordic
- Nobina
- Bus traffic in Haninge, Järfälla, Norrtälje, Nykvarn, Nynäshamn, Södertälje, Tyresö and Upplands-Bro.[6]
- AB Stockholms Spårvägar
References[]
- ^ "Stockholm Transport". AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik. Archived from the original on 2007-06-15. Retrieved 2007-06-03.
- ^ "Trafikförändringsdokument SL-trafiken 2018/2019 (T19)" (PDF) (in Swedish). Stockholm County Council. 2018-10-01. p. 5. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
- ^ "Arriva". AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik. Archived from the original on 2012-09-22. Retrieved 2012-09-04.
- ^ "Busslink". AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik. Archived from the original on 2012-09-22. Retrieved 2012-09-04.
- ^ "MTR". AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik. Retrieved 2010-01-25.[dead link]
- ^ "Nobina". AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik. Archived from the original on December 20, 2008. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
External links[]
Media related to Storstockholms Lokaltrafik at Wikimedia Commons
- Transport in Stockholm County
- Transport in Stockholm
- Companies based in Stockholm
- Railway companies of Sweden
- Public transport companies in Sweden
- Public transport authorities of Sweden