The annual timetable change will take place on 11 December 2022. The transport planners at Stadtwerke Gießen traditionally use this opportunity to adapt the bus services to demand. However, there will be no major changes this time.
Keeping the tried and tested, making targeted changes: Stadtwerke Gießen (SWG) uses the traditional timetable change to optimise its bus services. This winter, however, almost everything remains the same.
Additional stops on route 17
One of the changes concerns the "Am Alten Flughafen" area. The former US depot will be even better served by the city bus in future. From 11 December 2022, route 17 will serve the additional stop "Gefahrenabwehrzentrum" and run to the new final stop "Colemanstraße".
Demand-responsive booster journeys
The evening extension journeys on lines 801 and 802 on lecture days between the "Philosophikum" and "Schützenstraße" stops have been better adapted to demand.
Saturn and Venus night buses
The night buses in Giessen have been running again since April 2022 following the coronavirus-related break. However, due to the closure of the Konrad Adenauer Bridge to heavy goods vehicles, the Venus night bus has to follow a different route in the Weststadt area. The departure times of the night bus routes will be adjusted slightly when the timetable changes.
Line 24: from Wetzlar to Gießen
From the timetable change, line 24 will be operated by the bus company B.u.B. Gbr under the auspices of Verkehrsgesellschaft Lahn-Dill-Weil (VLDW GmbH). The most extensive innovation: the future operator will include eight express bus journeys in each direction in the timetable. The express buses will run three times in the morning and five times in the afternoon or early evening from Monday to Friday between 5 am and 8 pm. In Giessen, the express bus stops at the railway station and at the Mühlstraße stop.
As a result of this change, two early morning journeys, which were previously routed directly to Giessen railway station via Mühlstraße, will in future once again run via Marktplatz to the city centre. For the first journey to Giessen at 4.43 a.m. from Wetzlar, the route via Mühlstraße will be retained so that the connection to the train to Frankfurt can be maintained. The last departure from Giessen at 11.25 p.m., which previously ended in Kinzenbach, will be extended to Wetzlar on Fridays.
The current timetables can be found at www.swg-verkehr.de or at www.rmv.de.
Of course, the staff at the RMV mobility centre in the SWG customer centre on Marktplatz will also be happy to help from Monday to Friday from 9 am to 6 pm. SWG is of course also available to answer questions by telephone on 0641 708-1400 or by e-mail at mobizentrale@stadtwerke-giessen.de.