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The Twin City Liner boat service connects Vienna and Bratislava. Nearly all of Vienna's drinking water is brought from the Alps to the city via two large water pipelines, built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The pipelines stretch 120 km (75 mi) and 200 km (120 mi) from the Alps to Hietzing (the city's 13th district). The Alpine ...
Wiener Linien (Viennese Lines) is the company running most of the public transit network in the city of Vienna, Austria. It is part of the city corporation Wiener Stadtwerke [ de ] . Governing structure and statistics
The current operator of the network is Wiener Linien. In 2013, a total of 293.6 million passengers travelled on the network's trams. [ 1 ] As of 2013 [update] , there were 525 tramcars in Vienna's tram fleet, including 404 trams or tramsets scheduled for service during peak periods , [ 1 ] comprising 215 single cars and 189 motor and trailer sets.
System map of Vienna U-Bahn network (2024) The following is a list of the 98 stations in the Vienna U-Bahn metro system in Vienna, Austria. The Vienna U-Bahn network consists of five lines operating on 78.5 kilometres (48.8 mi) of route. [1]
The U-Bahn issue was also politicised: in the 1954 and 1959 city council elections, the conservative Austrian People's Party championed construction of a U-Bahn, but the more powerful Social Democratic Party of Austria campaigned for putting housing first. The city council repeatedly rejected the U-Bahn idea in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Line U1 is a line on the Vienna U-Bahn metro system. [1] Opened in 1978, it currently has 24 stations and a total length of 19.3 km (12.0 mi), from Oberlaa to Leopoldau.When the extension to Oberlaa was completed in 2017, the line became the longest on the network, surpassing the length of U6.
The Wiener Lokalbahnen (WLB) is a transportation company in Greater Vienna, Austria. It is one of the two transportation subsidiaries of the city-owned Wiener Stadtwerke holding, the other one being Wiener Linien .
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Vienna: . Vienna – capital of Austria and one of its nine states.It is the country's largest city, with over 1.8 million residents [1] within an area of 414.65 km 2 (160.10 sq mi).