Bus Azur is a brand of bus services serving the Southern French city of
CannesCannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....
,
FranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. The operator,
Veolia TransportVeolia Transport is the international transport services division of the French-based multinational company Veolia Environnement...
CannesCannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....
is responsible for operating the Bus Azur buses for SITP, grouping the
communesThe commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
of
CannesCannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....
,
le CannetLe Cannet is a commune of the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.-Location:Le Cannet is located on the north of Cannes, on the French Riviera...
et
Mandelieu-la-NapouleMandelieu-La Napoule is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France, located on the French Riviera just to the southwest of Cannes and northeast of Théoule-sur-Mer....
.
History
The city of Cannes was, until 1933, served by an urban tramway system, the
Tramway de CannesThe Tramway de Cannes was a tramway system in the French city of Cannes.The tramway operated in 1900 and stopped in 1933.At the end of the XIXth, Cannes' population went on increasing and several public transport projects appeared. The first was a horse drawn omnibus serving Cannes from 1874...
, as well as an inter-urban tramway, the
Tramway de Nice et du LittoralThe Tramway de Nice was a tramway system serving the city of Nice, France. The tramway began operations on 27 February 1879 using horse drawn tramcars....
until 1953.
The first bus services within Cannes and between Cannes and
le CannetLe Cannet is a commune of the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.-Location:Le Cannet is located on the north of Cannes, on the French Riviera...
began in 1936. Cannes bus company operated four lines:
- Cannes to le Cannet
Le Cannet is a commune of the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.-Location:Le Cannet is located on the north of Cannes, on the French Riviera...
- Cannes to Rocheville
Rocheville is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France....
- Cannes to Cannes-la-Bocca
- Cannes to la Croisette
Each of the lines were divided in two fare zones. In 1954, the concession for operation of buses in Cannes was given to Société des Transports Urbains de Cannes 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
diesel multiple unitA diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple unit train consisting of multiple carriages powered by one or more on-board diesel engines. They may also be referred to as a railcar or railmotor, depending on country.-Design:...
X 94630 for use on the
CannesGare de Cannes or Cannes-Ville is the main station for the French Southern city of Cannes. It is situated on the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway.-History:...
-
RanguinGare de Ranguin is a station in a suburb of Cannes, southern France.The station opened in 1871 when the line from Cannes to Grasse opened to passengers. The line saw a steady decline in passengers and the station was closed in 1995...
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.
Destinations
{| align="center"
{|class="wikitable"
|+
! width=10px| N°
! width=780px| Route
! width=100px| Operator
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#66B662" align="center"|
1
| Place Leclerc - Ranguin
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#646FC1" align="center"| 1A
| Place Leclerc - Hôtel de Ville
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#418DC2" align="center"| 2
| Blanchisserie - Les Bastides
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#9A0484" align="center"| 4
| Hôtel de Ville - Place Leclerc
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#ED81B4" align="center"| 6A
| Hôtel de Ville - Le Colombier
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#E982B3" align="center"| 6B
| Hôtel de ville - Saint-Michel Collines - Parc Saint-Paul
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#716461" align="center"| 7
| Mare Monte - Polyclinique
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#C597C8" align="center"| 7A
| Hôtel de Ville - Villa Font de Veyre
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#406EB1" align="center"| 8
| Quai Laubeuf - Palm Beach
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#E30D2D" align="center"| 10
| Hôtel de Ville - Les Pins Parasols
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#9FB234" align="center"| 11
| Place du Marché - Penh Chaï
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#81053E" align="center"| 11A
| Mairie du Cannet - Les Pins Parasols
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#F0BC51" align="center"| 12
| Hôtel de Ville - Les Mirandoles II
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#B59F5E" align="center"| 13
| Place Leclerc - Les Collines - Centre Hélio Marin
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#7A848B" align="center"| 14
| Gare SNCF Le Bosquet - Cormorans
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#EB009F" align="center"| 15
| L'Islette du Riou - C.E.S. Les Mimosas
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#841B92" align="center"| 16
| Cimetière de Capitou - Maréchal Juin
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#0D0F58" align="center"| 17
| Hôpital de Cannes - Gare Routière
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#BBBBBD" align="center"| 18
| Gare SNCFGare de Cannes or Cannes-Ville is the main station for the French Southern city of Cannes. It is situated on the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway.-History:...
- VallaurisVallauris is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It is located in the metropolitan area of Sophia-Antipolis, and is today effectively an extension of the town of Antibes, bordering it on its west side.-Population:-Culture:In...
| Envibus
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#35989F" align="center"| 20
| Gare SNCF - Avenue Morgon / Lycée Carnot / Gare SNCF - Balcon d'Azur
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#E30D2D" align="center"| 21
| Hôtel de Ville (Boucle via Notre-Dame les Pins)
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#F1CE13" align="center"| 35
| Hôtel de Ville - Ranguin
| VTU Cannes
|-
| style="border:thin solid black;" bgcolor="#BAB9BC" align="center"| 610
| Gare SNCFGare de Cannes or Cannes-Ville is the main station for the French Southern city of Cannes. It is situated on the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway.-History:...
- Grasse-See also:*Route Napoléon*Ancient Diocese of Grasse*Communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department-External links:*...
| CTM
|-
|}