Mouettes Genevoises Navigation
Overview
LocaleGeneva, Switzerland
Transit typeWater bus
Websitemouettesgenevoises.ch
Operation
Began operation1897
System map

The four lines cross the western end of Lake Geneva

Share of the S. A. des Mouettes Genevoises, issued 30. October 1897[1]

Mouettes Genevoises Navigation is a private[2] water bus operator in Geneva, Switzerland, operating four lines across the western end of Lake Geneva. A member of the integrated Unireso fare network, its head office is in Geneva.[3] The modern company was founded in 1897 by the merger of three boat operators.[4]

Name

"Mouettes" translates to "gulls". The origin of this name is not well understood, but may date from an era of many boat companies, each named after different birds.[5] The boats today are usually painted in yellow and red, the heraldic colors of Geneva.

Lines

A docked mouette, named for Rousseau

The four lines are considered integral to the city's transport network and thus receive public funding.[4]

References

  1. ^ Suppes 94/95 Historische Wertpapiere. WWA Bernd Suppes. 1994. p. 466. ISSN 0936-9406.
  2. ^ Oelgardt, Daniela (1994). "Les Mouettes Genevoises et la "Conception globale de la circulation à Genève" (C2000)". Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie. 134 (1): 57–63. doi:10.3406/globe.1994.1328.
  3. ^ "Mouettes genevoises". Mouettes genevoises (in French). Retrieved 25 December 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Le cheval, ancêtre des Mouettes genevoises". Tribune de Genève (in French). Retrieved 2022-07-31.
  5. ^ "Archives Interroge - Question / réponse". Bibliothèque municipale de la Ville de Genève (in French). 2014-10-20. Retrieved 2022-07-31.

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