Oradea Transport Local
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Regia Autonomă Oradea Transport Local, usually known just as OTL, is the municipal public transport operator in Oradea, Bihor, Romania. The network, although being fairly small for a city the size of Oradea, is somewhat efficient, and is made up of tram and bus lines.
Trams
There are three tram lines in Oradea, and these run together for most of their journey. The lines are 1, 2 and 3. Lines 1 and 3 run together in a city loop, while Line 2 joins part of this loop in part of its journey. All quarters except Vie are served by trams. Trams do not actually run in the city centre, since this is a beautiful Baroque area with narrow streets. They do, however, run on the border of the city in a loop, and then continue through to all the residential areas and quarters.
- Tram 1 (1 red 1R and 1 black 1N (completes the circuit the other way around)) runs from Sinteza Factory, which is located in the industrial west of Oradea, very close to the township of Borş and the Hungarian border, via the quarter of Rogerius, the central railway station, the city centre and then loops back to Rogerius.
- Tram 2 runs from Ioşia quarter via the southern city centre and the heart of the city (Unirii Square) to Cantemir quarter and then Nufărul. This is probably the most important route.
- Tram 3 (3 red 3R and 3 black 3N) (completes the circuit the other way around)) runs from Nufărul and then does the city loop from the Civic Centre onwards, terminating back at the Civic Centre near the main market.
Line 3 was called Line 4 before 2004, and there was no route named Line 3. However, in order to make the line order more logical, Line 4 was renamed Line 3 in 2004.
Buses
OTL runs the following bus routes in Oradea:
- Bus 10: Piata Devei-City Centre-Gara Est (Eastern Railway Station)
- Bus 11: Central Railway-Brick Factory-Episcopia Bihor Border Station (Hungarian border)
- Bus 12: Nufarul-City Centre
- Bus 13A: Gara Est-Cantemir-City Centre
- Bus 13B: Arinului-Municipal Hospital-Neurologic Hospital-Vie East-Dacia Continental Hotel-City Centre
- Bus 17: IMC-Sugar Factory-City Museum-Dacia Continental Hotel-City Centre
- Bus 19: Podgoria-Water Board-Strand (Aquatic Centre)-Hotel Dacia Continental
- Bus 21: IMC-Sugar Factory-City Centre-University-City Cemetery
- Bus 26: Electrometal-Clujului-Maternity-City Centre