Soléa is a public transport operator in the French city of

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. Under contract to the

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, it operates the city's bus network and three of the lines of the city's tram network. It also jointly operates, with the French national rail operator SNCF, the city's fourth tram line, a

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service. Soléa is a mixed private and public sector company. Its principal shareholders are the transport group

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(67.8%), the

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transport operator RATP (20%), the Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération (10%) and the Colmar transport operator

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(1%). Soléa carries more than 107,800 passengers per day, and serves a community of 245 367 inhabitants, in an area of . It has 544 employees.

Trams

The Mulhouse tram system commenced service in 2006, and was last extended in December 2010. It now comprises three purely tram lines, plus one hybrid

line: * Line 1 from Gare Central to Châtaignier * Line 2 from Nouveau Bassin to Coteaux * Line 3 from Gare Central to Lutterbach * Tram-train line from Gare Centrale to Thann via Lutterbach The system is operated by 27 Alstom Citadis 302 trams, which operate routes 1 to 3, and 12 Siemens Avanto tram-trains, which operate the route to Thann. On the latter route, Soléa manages the route as far as Lutterbach and provides 25% of the drivers, whilst the remainder of the route and the remaining drivers are provided by the SNCF.

Buses

Soléa operates 21 daytime bus routes, plus a shuttle service between Gare Central and Mulhouse hospital. It also operates 13 routes on evenings, Sundays and holidays, and 13 school bus routes. It does this with a fleet of 131 buses, of which 43 are articulated buses.

References

External links

Soléa web site

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