Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe

Infobox Company
name = Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG)

type = public
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foundation = 1928
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location_city = Berlin
location_country = Germany
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area_served = Berlin
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services = Public transport
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owner = State of Berlin (100%)
num_employees = 11,526
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homepage = http://www.bvg.de/
footnotes =
intl = The _de. Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (German for "Berlin Transportation Company") manages the Berlin U-Bahn, the Berlin Straßenbahn, and the Berlin bus network, as well as several ferry lines. The generally-used abbreviation, "BVG", has been retained from its former name, "Berliner Verkehrs Aktiengesellschaft" ("Berlin Transport Corporation").

The BVG also took part in the Berlin M-Bahn project in the 1980s until the beginning of the 1990s. The project was dropped with the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was also responsible for the Berlin S-Bahn of West Berlin between 1984 and the formation of Deutsche Bahn AG in 1994. The S-Bahn is currently managed by the S-Bahn Berlin GmbH.

The BVG launched "MetroNetz" on 12 December 2004 which remodeled the tram and bus network to create 24 tram and bus lines (with M prefix) covering parts of the city that weren't served by S-Bahn or U-Bahn.

External links

* [http://www.bvg.de Official site]