MAN Lion’s City 8873

Location: Westermarkt at Prinsengracht (Westermarkt Station)
Operator of Vehicle: Connexxion
Date of Photo: May 30, 2016

As mentioned in my last post, Amsterdam does have a bus network, although it is definitely secondary to the city’s tram and Metro systems.  The bus system reached its “peak” in the 1970s when it had over 400 buses in its fleet, but the revival of the tram network combined with the opening of the Metro in October 1977 has seen the number of routes and the size of the fleet decrease in the years since.  Currently, GVB’s bus fleet has about 200 buses in it to serve 33 routes.  There are also “regional” bus routes, such as the one pictured here operated by Connexxion (a subsidiary of Transdev) and EBS that connect Amsterdam with other municipalities in the “Amsterdam Transport Region” within the province of North Holland.

For more photos of Amsterdam’s buses, please click here.