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tariff network, and issues and accepts arcobaleno tickets on all services, both bus and funicular. Tickets are normally sold through ticket machines at most bus stops, but can also be bought from the driver if the stop has no ticket machine. The funicular has staffed ticket booths at both terminals.
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The company operates the following routes (frequency may be reduced on weekends and evenings): Line 1: Lugano Centro - Paradiso; Line 2: Paradiso - Castagnola; Line 3: Mercato Resega - Breganzona; Line 4: Lugano Centro - Canobbio; Line 5: Viganello - Lamone
Cadempino; Line 6: Stazione FFS -
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network by 1959, and was significantly expanded between 1975 and 1981. At its height, the system consisted of four lines, with outer termini at
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The first trolleybus route opened in 1954, the system had progressively replaced the Lugano
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By the 1950s the decision had been taken to replace the trams with trolleybuses.
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The company was taken over by the city of Lugano in 1918 and the name changed to
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in central Lugano for use by the TPL. The station was designed by the architect
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was opened in 1886. Initially it was operated by water power.
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533:[Lugano (comune) - 19th and 20th centuries].
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An articulated TPL bus at the city's railway station
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488:[Company] (in Italian). TPL
467:[History] (in Italian). TPL
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557:Betti Carboncini, Adriano (1992).
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203:TPL's central bus station in 2009
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239:and with northern Switzerland.
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273:Tranvie elettriche comunali
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443:References
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322:Pregassona
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310:Breganzona
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