Busselskabet Aarhus Sporveje colloquially known as Aarhus Sporveje is a bus company operating in

Jutland Jutland ( da, Jylland ; german: Jütland ; ang, Ēota land ), known anciently as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula ( la, Cimbricus Chersonesus; da, den Kimbriske Halvø, links=no or ; german: Kimbrische Halbinsel, links=no), is a peninsula of ...

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. It is the primary bus operator in the city and municipality of Aarhus and the former municipal bus operator of

Aarhus Municipality Aarhus Municipality ( da, Aarhus Kommune), known as Århus Municipality ( da, Århus Kommune) until 2011, is a municipality in Central Denmark Region, on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The municipality covers an area ...

. The company maintains all bus operations in Aarhus Municipality through 3 contracts with the

Central Denmark Region The Central Denmark Region ( da, Region Midtjylland), or more directly translated as the Central Jutland Region and sometimes simply Mid Jutland, is an administrative region of Denmark established on 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish mu ...

public transit organization Midttrafik. Two contracts were won in bids in 2008 and 2012 and the third, a holdover from when the company was a municipal entity, will be tendered in 2017. Aarhus Sporveje employs about 650 people and daily services 24 routes with 1.268 stops.

History

In 1883 ''Aarhuus Sporvejsselskab'' was founded and it maintained a horse-drawn tram route from the

central station Central stations or central railway stations emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as railway stations that had initially been built on the edge of city centres were enveloped by urban expansion and became an integral part of the ...

to the

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until 1895 when it stopped operations. The year after in 1896 an omnibus route opened which operated until 1903 when electrification made electric trams practical. The company ''Aarhus Elektriske Sporvej'' was founded the same year and began running the first trams in 1904 under a 25-year concession. In 1928

took over the company in order to expand services and the new municipal company was named Aarhus Sporveje. In 1944 the Aarhus Sporveje tram depot was bombed in an act of

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during the

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and most of the trams were destroyed. The routes were subsequently serviced by busses and the tram fleet were never fully restored. In 1971 the tram system was abolished and Aarhus has been serviced only by busses ever since. In 2007 Aarhus Sporveje was merged into the regional operator Midttrafik as part of the municipal reform of 2007 and was renamed Busselskabet Aarhus Sporveje.

External links

Busselskabet Aarhus Sporveje

References

{{reflist Transport in Aarhus