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_-_01-09-2023.jpg.webp) Heuliez GX 337 from Line 1 stopping at Hôtel de Ville in September 2023. | |
| Headquarters | Cannes |
|---|---|
| Locale | Cannes |
| Service area |  France |
| Service type | Urban service |
| Routes | 45 lines |
| Operator | Régie Palm Bus |
| Website | https://www.palmbus.fr/ |
Palm Bus is a brand of bus services serving the Southern French city of Cannes, France. The operator, Veolia Transport Cannes is responsible for operating the Bus Azur buses for SITP, grouping the communes of Cannes, le Cannet et Mandelieu-la-Napoule, Théoule-sur-Mer and Mougins.
History
1933–2014: Cannes buses history
The city of Cannes was, until 1933, served by an urban tramway system, the Tramway de Cannes, as well as an inter-urban tramway, the Tramway de Nice et du Littoral until 1953.
The first bus services within Cannes and between Cannes and le Cannet began in 1936. Cannes bus company operated four lines:
Each of the lines were divided in two fare zones. In 1954, the concession for operation of buses in Cannes was given to Société des Transports Urbains de Cannes by the Syndicat Intercommunal des Transports Publics for twenty years. Several lines were created during the 1960s, linking Cannes to la Californie, Cannes and le Cannet via République and Cannes to l'Aubarède. Lines were divided into four fare zones. In 1968, severe strikes forced the company to reduce its staff presence on buses to one.
The STUC's concession was extended by ten years in 1974 thanks to a grant to the STIP. The company adopted a new ticketing system, using magnetic strip cards. Lines were grouped into two global fare zones in replacement of the four per line. Service was increased with the purchase of more rolling stock. Within two years, stock and staff numbers doubled.
In 1978, the STUC purchased a diesel multiple unit X 94630 for use on the Cannes-Ranguin railway line. Service was eleven minutes in length and bus ticketing used.
The concession was once more extended, for five years, in 1984, with further bus purchases and the repainting of the X 94630 into the line's colours. rail services ended in 1995 due to loss of revenue. On 5 November 1996, CGFTE Cannes signed a contract delegating services. In 2004, Bus Azur introduced double-decker buses on its line 8 quai Laubeuf-La Croisette-Palm Beach.
2014–2018: New network
On 1 January 2014, Bus Azur is extended to Mougins and Théoule-sur-Mer and officially becomes Palm Bus.
Palm Bus network is changed:[1] Sillages lines 24 and 27 are transferred to Cannes network, three lines named 22, 23 and 30 were created and departemental line 620 were transferred.
2018–2022: New buses
Since mid-2010, Palm Bus starts receiving new articuled and electric Heuliez buses :
- In 2018, Palm Bus received their first Heuliez Bus GX 337 Linium prototype.
- In end-2019, Palm Bus received their first three-articuled buses, (GX 437 Linium).
- In 2021, Palm Bus received their first electric buses.
2022–present: New buses lines
On 1 September 2022, Sillages line 18 were transferred to Cannes network.[2]
In September 2023, the network get into a high changement.[3]
- Three new lines named 26, 28 and 29, serving Cannes, Mougins, Valbonne and Sophia-Antipolis
- Line 27 were deleted.
- Line 25 becomes a schoolar line and renamed Renfort 5
Lines
| Image | Bus | Between | And | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palm Express | ||||
_-_04-09-2023.jpg.webp) | A | Mandelieu-la-Napoule – Centre Commercial Minelle | Gare de Cannes | GX 337 Linium GX 437 Linium |
 | B | Mouans-Sartoux — Centre | Gare de Cannes | GX 337 Linium |
| Palm Bus | ||||
| 1 | Le Cannet — Penh Chai | Cannes — Ranguin | GX 327 GX 337 |
_-_04-09-2023.jpg.webp) | 2 | Le Cannet — Blanchisserie | Cannes — Les Bastides | GX 327 GX 337 |
_et_Heuliez_GX_327_n%C2%B0348_(Ligne_10)_-_01-09-2023.jpg.webp) | 4 | Le Cannet — Place Leclerc | Cannes — Hôtel de Ville | GX 127 GX 137 |
 | 6A/B | Le Cannet — Le Colombier Cannes — Saint-Michel Collines | Cannes — Hôtel de Ville | GX 127 GX 137 |
_-_01-09-2023.jpg.webp) | 7 | Cannes — Mare Monte | Cannes — Polyclinique | GX 127 GX 137 |
_-_01-09-2023.jpg.webp) | 8 | Cannes — Quai Laubeuf | Cannes — Palm Beach | Volvo B9TL |
| 9 | Gare de Cannes | Vallauris — Fournas | GX 127 GX 137 |
_-_01-09-2023.jpg.webp) | 10 | Le Cannet — Les Pins Parasols | Cannes — Hôtel de Ville | GX 327 GX 337 |
| 11 | Le Cannet — Penh Chai | Cannes — Gabians | GX 327 GX 337 |
| 11A | Le Cannet — Mairie | Le Cannet — Les Pins Parasols | GX 127 GX 137 |
 | 12 | Le Cannet — Mirandoles II | Cannes — Hôtel de Ville | GX 327 GX 337 |
| 13 | Le Cannet — Place Leclerc | Le Cannet — Les Collines | ? |
| 14 | Cannes — Gare du Bosquet | Cannes — Cormorans | GX 127 GX 137 |
| 17 | Cannes — Simone Veil Hospital | Mandelieu-la-Napoule — Gare Routière | GX 327 GX 337 |
| 18 | La Roquette-sur-Siagne — Hameau Saint-Jean | Mandelieu-la-Napoule — Gare Routière | ? |
| 19 | Saint-Raphaël — Le Trayas Théoule-sur-Mer — Mairie | Mandelieu-la-Napoule — Gare Routière | GX 127 GX 137 |
_-_04-09-2023.jpg.webp) | 21 | Cannes — Hôtel de Ville (circular line, via Notre-Dame-des-Pins and Gare SNCF) | GX 127 GX 137 | |
_-_02-09-2023.jpg.webp) | 22 | Saint-Raphaël — Le Trayas Théoule-sur-Mer — Mairie | Gare de Cannes | GX 127 GX 137 |
| 23 | Mandelieu-la-Napoule — Parc d'activités de la Siagne | GX 127 GX 137 | |
| 24 | Le Cannet — Place Leclerc | Mougins — Place des Acades | - |
| 26 | Mougins — Tournamy | Cannes — Ranguin | - |
| 28 | Mougins — Tournamy | Mougins — Mairie Annexe de l’Aubarède | - |
| 29 | Mougins — Tournamy | Valbonne — Gare Routière | - |
_-_04-09-2023.jpg.webp) | 35 | Gare de Cannes | Cannes — Ranguin (via Le Cannet and Rocheville) | GX 327 GX 337 |
| Minibuses | ||||
| CP[upper-alpha 1] | Gare de Cannes | Bluebus 6m | |
| NS[upper-alpha 2] | Cannes — Hôtel de Ville | Bluebus 6m | |
| PM[upper-alpha 3] | Pont des Gabres | Bluebus 6m | |
| Summer Lines | ||||
| LT[upper-alpha 4] | Mandelieu-la-Napoule — Espace Muller | Mandelieu-la-Napoule — Port de la Rague | - |
| MP[upper-alpha 5] | Mandelieu-la-Napoule — Canadière-Tassigny | Mandelieu-la-Napoule — Cannes Marina | - |
| BC[upper-alpha 6] | Cannes La Bocca — Résidence Coubertin (circular line, via La Bocca-Verrerie, Place du Marché and la Roubine) | - | |
 | MR[upper-alpha 7] | Cannes — Parking Roseraie-Port Canto (circular line, via Base Nautique and Plage de l'Étang)) | - | |
| Night Lines | ||||
| n1 | Le Cannet — Penh Chai | Cannes — Ranguin | GX 327 GX 337 |
| n2 | Le Cannet — Blanchisserie | Cannes — Les Bastides | GX 327 GX 337 |
 | n10 | Le Cannet — Les Pins Parasols | Cannes — Hôtel de Ville | GX 327 GX 337 |
| n20 | Cannes – Boulevard du Midi | Gare de Cannes (via, Centre Commercial Minelle, Gare Routière and Hôtel de Ville) | GX 327 GX 337 |
| n21 | Cannes — Hôtel de Ville (circular line, via Palm Beach, Notre-Dame-des-Pins and Gare SNCF) | GX 327 GX 337 | |
Notes
References
- ↑ mougins.fr - Palm Bus, nouveau réseau
- ↑ "Actualités : Nouvelle Ligne 18" (in French). Palm Bus. 2022-08-12. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
- ↑ "Ça bouge à Mougins, trois nouvelles lignes" (in French). Palm Bus.