Dan Bus Company
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Israel
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Bus
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company based in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
. It operates local bus service in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area (Gush Dan) as well as some intercity bus services between the Gush Dan area and nearby regions such as Samaria
Samaria
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, and a connection between Bne Brak and Jerusalem. Dan operates 1,200 buses and has 2,400 employees. It transports over 600,000 passengers daily. In 2009, 23.5% of all Israeli bus travelers used Dan's lines.
The company was founded as a cooperative
Cooperative
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on December 1, 1945, from the merger of 2 companies, Galei HaMaavir and Ihud Regev. It demutualised
Demutualization
Demutualization is the process by which a customer-owned mutual organization or co-operative changes legal form to a joint stock company. It is sometimes called stocking or privatization. As part of the demutualization process, members of a mutual usually receive a "windfall" payout, in the form...
, becoming a limited company
Limited company
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in May 2002.
Dan provides bus service six days a week. From Friday afternoon until after Sunset Saturday night, service is suspended in observance of the Jewish Sabbath
Shabbat
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. Dan buses run until approximately 23:30 p.m. and resume service in the early morning hours.
See also
- Egged Bus CooperativeEgged Bus CooperativeEgged Israel Transport Cooperative Society Ltd , a cooperative owned by its members is the largest transit bus company in Israel. It provides about 55 % of public transport services throughout the country, employs 6,227 workers and has 2,861 buses for more than 928 service routes and 3,103...
- KavimKavimKavim is an Israeli bus company. It was founded in 2000 and provided lines in the eastern Gush Dan region - the towns/cities Kiryat Ono, Petah Tikva, Or Yehuda, Giv'atayim and others. In February 2005, Kavim expanded to the north, where it started providing bus lines in Afula, Bet She'an and the...
- Transport in Tel AvivTransport in Tel AvivSeen as the hub of the Israeli transportation system in terms of road, rail, and air transport. The Israeli road network partly centers around the city with some of the country's largest highways passing through or running to the city. The city forms a major part of the country's rail network,...