Bizkaibus

Locale	Biscay, Spain
Service type	bus service
Website	Bizkai site

BizkaiBus is the name for bus services serving the province of Biscay, Spain. It is named after the Basque name of the province, Bizkaia. The buses can be identified by their distinctive yellow colour scheme.

The bus network is integrated in the Creditrans ticket system.

BizkaiBus is the result of the combination of several companies that offered bus travel services in the province of Biscay, TCSA, CAV, PESA, Encartaciones, Euskotren, Adnor and Autobuses de Lujua. The service is funded by the authority of Biscay or Diputacion Foral and operates as much as 100 bus lines. Some of the lines are seasonal, and only work during certain months, during the summer to connect beach areas for example.

The companies have steadily joined Bizkaibus as years have passed. The bus lines of EuskoTren joined in the year 2002, Adnor joined in 2005, and Autobuses de Lujua in 2006. From the companies offering bus public transport in Biscay only Vigiola is left to join Bizkaibus.

In 2006 the line between Bilbao and Castro Urdiales was excluded from Bizkaibus, as the authority of Biscay was funding it entirely, even though Castro Urdiales was part of the province of Cantabria.

The service was used by over 30 million passengers during 2007, almost six per cent less than a year before. The expansion of Metro Bilbao through the left bank of the Greater Bilbao metropolitan area has hurt Bizkaibus since the year 2002, when the first stations of the underground were inaugurated in Barakaldo. Subsequent extensions to Sestao in 2005 and Portugalete in 2007 have affected the ridership.

The busiest lines during 2006 were the following:

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