Beijing Bus

The Beijing bus services is the most used public transport in the city and it's suburbs. Over the years it has now over 33000 buses in service covering all of it's 16 districts of the capital. The army of buses serve 1020 lines and 10 million as daily ridership.

Public bus service in Beijing dates to 1921 when the Beiyang Government established a trolley company in the city Tram service began in the city in 1924. The first bus route in Beijing was launched in 1925 when the Beiping Bus Preparatory Committee acquired 30 buses for the city.In 1947, the Beiping Municipal Bus Company was established with 133 buses, but the company shut down in August 1949 during the Chinese Civil War with 79 broken down buses and  only five working buses. 

In January 1949, after the capture of Beiping by the People's Liberation Army in the Beiping-Tianjin Campaign, there were only 103 trams and 61 buses in the city, which delivered 28.85 million trips that year From November 1949 to March 1950, 88 U.S.-made Dodge T234 buses were shipped from Shanghai and became the mainstay of the Beijing bus fleet. Due to fuel shortages caused by a US-imposed trade embargo, the buses were converted to burn wood.

It restarted the bus services and gained popularity and kept increasing its serivce time, lines and more.. In 1999, a new company formed called Beijing Xianglong Bus Co., Ltd. ("Yuntong"). Now there were two companies serving Beijing.

As the bus gained popularity, the trams were removed and were taken over by trolley buses. In the 1960s to 1970s, trolleybus buses were among the most important means of surface public transportation in the city and their routes  expanded beyond the old city to the inner suburbs. Trolleybus expansion ceased in the 1980s with the growth in use  of buses with internal combustion engines.

By 2000, Bus and Trolleybus increased  with 3.3 Billion rides that's 293% making it the backbone transport for the city. As this became a vital transport for the city, the bus lanes were introduced in 2007 making it more reliable. In 2016, the first double decker buses were introduced. First to tourist then to normal buses. This solved the problem of overcrowding. Year by year, buses are being converted to trolleybuses.