Buses in Vilnius


The Vilnius bus network operates bus lines in Lithuanian capital city Vilnius. Up to 420 buses are working on working-days, 250 - on weekends.
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History

On November 18, 1945, the Vilnius Bus Company, which buspark was succeeded by 17 old German and Soviet military buses. On March 13, the new regular bus line Žvėrynas - Railway Station, after all, other two lines were opened.
In 1964, the new depot of the existing bus fleet was built in Verkių street.
In 1995, the company was registered as a limited liability company Vilniaus autobusų parkas.
In 2003, company was renamed to Vilniaus autobusai.
In 2004, 90 new Volvo 7700 and Volvo 7700A buses were bought.
In 2011 Vilniaus Autobusai was joined with the trolleybus company Vilniaus Troleibusai and reorganised to Vilniaus viešasis transportas.
After the 2013 bus and trolleybus route reform, selected buses were stored at the second trolleybus depot in Viršuliškės. Also, due to lack of minibuses after the said reform, 12 Koch minibuses were purchased second-hand from Jelgava.
In 2013 and 2014, 19 Solaris Urbino 12 III CNG, 18 MAN A21 Lion's City NL273 CNG and 20 Castrosua City Versus CNG buses were bought.
From 2014 to 2017, several bus routes were handed out to private operators Transrevis, Ridvija which operated minibus routes and Meteorit Turas.
In 2017, a bus renewal period started, which lasted until the end of 2020. Many old buses were scrapped, some older buses were repainted and many new ones were purchased. These include:
The private operators Ridvija and Meteorit Turas no longer operated any routes though Transrevis was given even more of them and replaced its buses with new ones:

List of operated buses

UnitsBus modelBuilt inNotes
2Citroen Jumper2011Used for transporting bus drivers, rarely carries passengers
2VanHool A5081988Purpose not known
1Daewoo Lublin 35142000Purpose not known
1DAF MB200 HORTEN1985Used for towing broken-down vehicles
1Mercedes-Benz O405N21995The bus has mounted trolleybus connectors, they're used for removing snow from trolleybuses wires
1Peugeot Boxer2001Used for transporting bus drivers, rarely carries passengers

Night bus

The night bus route network in Vilnius was designed in 2006 to allow a safe journey from the city centre to the most densely populated neighbourhoods. At first the routes operates on all nights, however due to financial crisis, they were discontinued. At first, all tickets were valid on night buses, but starting from December 2006, night tickets were introduced, which could be purchased on the bus and no discounts were valid. In 2015 night buses were brought back on Friday to Saturday and Saturday to Sunday nights. In 2018, route 88N was introduced to transport passengers between Vilnius airport and the city center. In 2020, due to COVID-19 pandemic, all night routes were discontinued, but 88N would be brought back the Summer of the same year. Other night routes were brought back in July 2022, it was an experiment to see if the ridership was big enough to resume operation, the final day of operation was September 4th. No further announcements were made regarding the change and the only regular night bus route in Vilnius is 88N. Rest of the night routes are only brought back for special events.
NumberRouteNotes
88NAirport–Center–Europe squareIntroduced in 2018
101NSaulėtekis–Žygimantų st.–Savanorių av.–Laisvės av.–Fabijoniškės
102NPilaitė–Žvėrynas–Žygimantų st.–Maironio st.–Bus station
103NSantariškės–Didlaukio st.–Kalvarijų st.–Pylimo st.–Bus station–Gerosios Vilties st
104NAteities st.–Žirmūnų st.–Pylimo st.–Naujininkai
105NPašilaičiai–Šeškinė–Konstitucijos av.–Žygimantų st.–Olandų st.–Pavilnys–Parko st
106NLiepkalnis–Bus station–Pylimo st.–Green bridge Only operated on 2014/07/04-05 and 2018/07/04-05