Palm Bus is a brand of bus services serving the Southern French city of

Cannes Cannes ( , , ; oc, Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The ci ...

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. The operator,

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is responsible for operating the Bus Azur buses for SITP, grouping the

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le Cannet Le Cannet (; oc, Lo Canet; older it, Canneto) is a commune of the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. Administration Le Cannet was part of Cannes until 1778, when it was made a separate commune. Location Le Cannet is locat ...

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and

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History

The city of Cannes was, until 1933, served by an urban tramway system, the

Tramway de Cannes Trams in Cannes was a tram public transit system in the French city of Cannes. The tramway opened in 1900 and ended operation in 1933. At the end of the 19th century, Cannes' population went on increasing and several public transport projects appe ...

, as well as an inter-urban tramway, the

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until 1953. The first bus services within Cannes and between Cannes and

began in 1936. Cannes bus company operated four lines: *Cannes to

*Cannes to

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*Cannes to Cannes-la-Bocca *Cannes to la

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Each of the lines were divided in two fare zones. In 1954, the concession for operation of buses in Cannes was given to

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by the Syndicat Intercommunal des Transports Publics for twenty years. Several lines were created during the 1960s, linking Cannes to la Californie, Cannes and le Cannet via République and Cannes to l'Aubarède. Lines were divided into four fare zones. In 1968, severe strikes forced the company to reduce its staff presence on buses to one. The STUC's concession was extended by ten years in 1974 thanks to a grant to the STIP. The company adopted a new ticketing system, using magnetic strip cards. Lines were grouped into two global fare zones in replacement of the four per line. Service was increased with the purchase of more rolling stock. Within two years, stock and staff numbers doubled. In 1978, the STUC purchased a

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X 94630 for use on the

- Ranguin railway line. Service was eleven minutes in length and bus ticketing used. The concession was once more extended, for five years, in 1984, with further bus purchases and the repainting of the X 94630 into the line's colours. rail services ended in 1995 due to loss of revenue. On 5 November 1996, CGFTE Cannes signed a contract delegating services. In 2004, Bus Azur introduced double-decker buses on its line 8 quai Laubeuf-La Croisette-Palm Beach.

References

External links

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