Portuguese commuter transport companies

Last modified: 2001-10-24 by antonio martins
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• Lisbon subway company flags
• Lisbon bus company flags

• Portugal

Metropolitano de Lisboa

The city’s subway company flag is an unusual logo-on-white-background type of flag, with the logo on the hoist, instead of centered. This logo (like it’s predecessor) shows the letter "M" (for "metro", shortform of "[comboio] metropolitano", "subway") on a stylized tunnel section view.
António Martins, 15 Apr 1998 and 18 Oct 2001

• Lisbon municipality

Companhia dos Carris de Ferro de Lisboa; CCFL

In Lisbon buses and tramways do not usually carry flags, apart from one or two turism street cars. However, recently the Lisbon urban transport company (Companhia dos Carris de Ferro de Lisboa) celebrated its 150th anniversary and all the buses were decorated with a pair of small crossed flags on the front roof. These were: the “civil” municipal flag, white over black gyronny, no arms, and the company’s logo flag, two large rings, white and blue, on yellow.
António Martins, 15 Apr 1998

The flag with the previous logo on a bright orange background is apparently still flying atop the Santa Justa Elevator (a commuter facility in Lisbon that works like a normal vertical lift, unlike the other three Lisbon “elevators”, which are funiculars — was built in the late 19th. cent. by the same team that designed the Eiffel tower in Paris). I supposed it out of use after the new logo was used, since 1997 (by then new buses were recolored yellow instead of the previous orange).
António Martins, 30 Jul 1999

Logo on white background was an often vatiation.
António Martins, 30 Jul 1999

• Lisbon municipality