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 Open-top tourist buses have boomed since 2000 in Lisbon. As well as the Carristur services of the Lisbon transport operator Carris, services are also operated by CityLine and Cityrama. Carristur services include the Circuito Tejo and the Circuito Oriente. The former operates (summer 2002) half-hourly and the latter hourly, both from the Praça do Comércio where this picture is taken. The Tejo service goes via the north of the city and Estrela to Belém, before returning along the coast to Lisbon; the latter goes to the Parque das Nações, the former Expo 98 site, at Oriente. Carris also operates a four-hour Sintra tour in yellow single decker coaches labelled "Sightseeing". This tour includes Colares, Cabo da Roca, Guincho, Estoril and Cascais as well as Sintra and its adjoining sights. |
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In 2000 a number of new Volvo B10R open-top CAMO-bodied buses, like the ones above, replaced open top Leyland Fleetlines on the tour routes. |
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 One of the surviving Leyland Fleetlines, complete with roof, serving as a ticket booth for the open top tour services in Praça do Comércio. |
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An unidentified doubledecker in Praça do Comércio, probably an AEC Regent V. The picture was taken by Joyce Isles some years ago. |
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Another decker, 697, photo taken at the same time. |
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