2002 in the history of public transport

In the Russian Federation

Moscow

Routes

• The bus route No. 108 was opened: the 5th microdistrict of Northern Butov - the village of Milyitsa .
• Open bus route number 145: st. metro Belyaevo - Samora Mashela street (ring).
• Bus route No. 146 was opened: 5th microdistrict of Northern Butov - 4th microdistrict of South Butov .
• The bus route No. 272 ​​was opened: metro station South-West - Vnukovo plant .
• October 15 - bus route No. 900c was opened: Belovezhskaya Street - Kievsky Railway Station for passengers with increased comfort and without travel tickets (the passengers were offered to watch TV on the bus), but the experiment was unsuccessful, after 3 years the route became normal and closed due to the introduction of Art. metro Slavyanskiy boulevard .
• December 27 - mass transfer of bus routes between bus fleets: 261 transferred from the FATP to the 14th AP, 163 and 661 transferred from the FATP to the 1st AP, 11 and 109 transferred from the 5th AP to FATP, 253 transferred from the 15th AP 5 -mu AP.
• December 28 - Route 58 extended to st. metro Youth .
• Bus route No. 163 extended to Udaltsova street.
• Bus route No. 224 extended to Maria Ulyanova Street.
• Bus route No. 262 extended to the 2nd microdistrict of South Butov .
• Bus route No. 651 extended to st. metro Kakhovskaya .
• Bus route No. 654 extended to Krasnopresnensky TD .
• Bus route 94 follows from the Butovo platform .
• Bus route No. 126 follows to the Airport platform .
• Bus route 129 follows the Autumn Boulevard in both directions.
• Bus route number 18 is shortened to the metro station "Dmitry Donskoy Boulevard" .
• Closed bus route number 753: Airport Vnukovo - Tolstopaltsevo . open trolleybus route number 40m: Metro Warsaw - Annino.

Events

• Closed to the station DSK-2 , or "Ochakovo-Severnaya Station" due to the extension of the 187th route in 2001 to Ozernaya street.
• The last batch of Ikarus-280.33m2 buses arrived at MGT , after which the plant in Szekesfehervar went bankrupt.
• The tests in the FATP of the Ikarus Classic C-83.40 bus ( Ikarus-283 prototype) (08380; With 538 TU 99), the tests were successful, then MGT ordered more than 500 buses for Moscow, and paid a lot of money in advance, but the plant in Szekesfehervar went bankrupt, the deal did not take place and MGT was at a huge loss, and then the Moscow Government allocated MGT additional funds and ordered domestic plants to create an accordion for Moscow. The LiAZ plant won, which presented the LiAZ-6212 bus as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the ex- Mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, refused to supply imported buses to MGT .
• The factory tests of the LiAZ-6212 bus, the tests were successful, and it was decided to conduct similar tests in the FATP .
• Tests in the FATP of the prototype bus Ikarus-435.17a2 Moskovit-6222 (08260; Н 208 ХР 99), the tests were successful and the bus was put into serial production, and the test sample was sent back to the factory, where it was looted and in a dismantled state.

Other corners of the Russian Federation

• September 1 - trolleybus traffic in the city of Syzran is open.

In CIS countries

Uzbekistan

• Closed trolley in Andijan .

In the world

• Austria - March 31 stopped the trolleybus service in the city of Kapfenberg .
• Italy - May 31, trolleybus traffic in the city of Cremona was stopped.
• USA - open tram in the city of Tampa .
• France - openly trolleybus movement in the city of Caen .
• China - trolleybus traffic in the cities of Bensi and Changchun has been stopped .
• Sweden - built the 3rd section of the Tvärbanan route.