Once again this year, Stadtwerke Gießen is offering a special timetable for the city buses on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
Christmas Eve and the night from New Year's Eve to New Year's Day place special demands on the city bus service. For this reason, the transport planners at Stadtwerke Gießen (SWG) have once again drawn up a special timetable for these days in 2019, based on the positive experiences of recent years: On Christmas Eve, the SWG bus routes will run according to the regular Saturday timetable. However, they will stop running on this day at 17:00. On the two Christmas holidays, the Sunday and public holiday timetable will apply.
SWG will also be helping its passengers to travel safely and comfortably into the New Year. To ensure this, the city buses will run on the Saturday timetable on New Year's Eve from the start of service until around 11.30 pm and then return to the depot on the company premises in Lahnstraße. But not all of them. For the night from New Year's Eve to New Year's Day, SWG will once again be organising three New Year's Eve shuttles, which will run between 01:00 and 04:00 according to a special timetable every 60 minutes within the city of Giessen and the municipality of Heuchelheim. The Saturn and Venus night bus routes do not operate between 24 December and 1 January inclusive.
The routes in detail
All three routes start and end at Berliner Platz.
New Year's Eve shuttle 1 follows the route Schiffenberger Weg, Sandkauter Weg, Ohlebergsweg, Aulweg, Robert-Sommer-Straße, Frankfurter Straße, Klein-Linden, Allendorf, Lützellinden and back to Frankfurter Straße via Klein-Linden.
New Year's Eve shuttle 2 serves the stops in Ostanlage, Marburger Straße, Wiesecker Weg, Wieseck, Philosophenwald, Grünberger Straße, Rödgener Straße, to Rödgen and back via Licher Straße.
New Year's Eve Shuttle 3 takes passengers to the stations in Eichgärtenviertel, Weststadt, Heuchelheim and Kinzenbach.
If passengers have any questions, they can contact the advisors at the mobility centre in the Stadtwerke Gießen customer centre on Marktplatz - by telephone on 0641 708-1400 or in person. Opening hours: Mondays to Fridays from 09:00 to 18:00 and Saturdays from 10:00 to 14:00.
Stadtwerke Gießen also provides the latest transport information and amended timetables and bus routes on its website at www.swg-verkehr.de.