For The Transit Fans: Company Profile: Storstockholms Lokaltrafik
The Greater Stockholm Local Transit Company or SL as it is locally known, organizes land based public transportation in Stockholm
SL MAN Lion's City decorated for LGBT Pride Week
Type: Public/Private Hybrid SL Buses are owned and operated by private companies, SL rail services use SL owned Rolling Stock but are operated by private companies.
Fleet Size: Undisclosed, vehicles are shifted around between various independent contractors and records are private
Routes: 40 Bus lines, 25 Heavy and Light Rail lines
Manufacturer and Powerplant: The private contractors operating for SL often use imported German MAN and Mercedes-Benz models running on CNG or Hybrid Powerplants. Others may use domestic Swedish vehicles procured from Volvo and Scania powered by Biofuels and Ethanol.
SL Scania OmniCity
Fare Collection: There is no Contactless Card Payment System in Stockholm. Tickets must be purchased and then validated similar to the BVG Berlin system. Stockholm has one of the most expensive to board public transit networks in the world and operates on an extremely outdated Zoning model. In this complicated model moving between zones of the city can cost extra especially during rush hour. 1 Ticket costs 25 Krona. (25 Swedish Krona = $2.96 US Dollars) a one day pass costs 117 Krona (117 Swedish Krona = $13.83 US Dollars)
Livery: SL uses two liveries which denote different types of service. Routes serviced by Red buses are classed as Service routes. These are routes which provide normal service from residential areas to the city centers and vice versa. Blue Buses provide service in the city centers as well as suburban routes which connect to the outer areas of the city. Elderly People and Pregnant women are allowed to "hail" the service buses like taxis even if not at a bus stop in certain residential areas.
SL Volvo B9S in Blue Livery
Innovations: SL has a history of Privatizing and then later returning to a public model. First Privatizing in 1915 and going public in the 1920s after acquiring private motor bus companies. In its current incarnation SL privatized again in 1993 and has shifted to become more like TFL in London imposing regulations on the private contractors to keep service as normalized as possible.
SL at work in Stockholm
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