As International Borders are opening tomorrow, I am hoping this Christmas will be a reprieve to Blue Mountains Explorer after 20 months of struggling.

Take note that public transport is back to 75% capacity from tomorrow:

https://transportnsw.info/covid-19/covi ... on-content

Please wear a face mask on public transport and practice social distancing where possible.

https://transportnsw.info/news/2021/major-disruption-20-october-trains-will-run-to-reduced-frequency-due-to-industrial-action#home-carousel Major disruption is expected. People should consider driving tomorrow then. I seriously hope Transport for NSW announce plans to aggressively convert every Sydn...

https://transportnsw.info/alerts/details#/6064203 Five new shuttle routes will operate throughout Thursday, 12 August: Glebe to Central – T431 Lilyfield to Central – T470 Five Dock to Leichhardt Town Hall only – T437 Abbotsford to Annandale (finishing at Parramatta Rd and Johnston St) – T438 Balmai...

I don't understand why RTBU has failed to attack the government for not including all transport workers in Phase 1B of COVID-19 vaccine rollout. I am highly concerned should we have an outbreak and a bus driver is infected, then there will become a super-spreading event across all passengers in the ...

You haven't mentioned the cost of fuel, which for a return trip from the CC or Wollongong would probably erode most of that cost advantage. Let's take an example of going to Easter Show here and back from Newcastle (310km return): Fuel cost: 8.0L/100km x 3 = 24.0 x 121.5c/L = $29.16 Parking: $20 Do...

I wonder is it feasible, in Australian context, to install solar panels on rooftop of buses? My understanding is that technological advanced foreign countries, such as Hong Kong, are installing solar panels on rooftop of double-decker buses to generate energy for air-conditioning and other electroni...

Qantas is conducting Double Status Credits sale from now until 30 March. So please ensure you book a flight and become a Gold/Platinum member quickly so that you can enjoy more baggage allowance when travelling from overseas.

Masks no longer mandatory on public transport in NSW just as we are heading into a cooler season and every week there are more and more passengers than during the period that masks were mandatory???????? :roll: :roll: :roll: There has also been some flu like bugs going around, and I think even if i...

Nugget (or perhaps you should change your name to Negative).... do some research, the parking is $20 pre-purchase or $30 on the day. So far Sydney Olympic Park, RAS NSW/Sydney Royal Easter Show, and TFNSW have outlined the reason transport isn't included is so that everyone taps on and off and they...

tonyp wrote: ↑Sat Mar 20, 2021 12:10 am Apparently people were locked in the tram for 15-20 minutes, then this:

https://www.facebook.com/MarjorieONeill ... 2161102961

I wonder how passengers 'tap off' if they have 'tapped on'?

Perhaps for families, they should be driving rather than using public transport to the Show as it would be safer and easier to get there.

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For some time I've noticed at least in the morning there are either security guards or TransportNSW staff (in orange hi-vis) at some key bus stops doing headcounts of people on buses - whether they're counting those wearing, or not wearing, a mask I'm not sure but it seems that's what they're looki...

There is a news item on 131500 website about wide gates.
What's changing?

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boronia wrote:Maybe the RPOs are employed by the operators? Transdev has its own staff checking on the LR.

And ferries as well?

I hope Transdev is not winning any more bus contracts, so to keep passengers a peace of mind.

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Considering how packed these services are these days at UNSW, how can they ensure social distancing is possible? If social distancing is not possible, if one person has Coronavirus, then it will risk the entire NSW into Stage 4 lockdown, especially when we are facing the more contagious UK strain. I...

The face mask mandate only applies to Central Coast, Blue Mountains and Wollongong areas. So I wonder from which station on the South Coast Line and Central Coast and Newcastle Line will this mask mandate does not apply, as they would have been outside of Central Coast (i.e. in Hunter) and in South ...

Caught the tram to and from Randwick and wow, this thing was absolutely packed. With, you guessed, UNSW students. The travel time was also commendable. 17 minutes from Central to Randwick. I wouldn’t agree with Mayor Laxale’s very recent comment of “the slowest tram in the world” - its actually via...

I wonder whether STA and TSA can investigate whether they can update their rear desto font on newer buses, so that when the bus is running an express service, like 180X or 461X, the font of the bus route can fill the desto better? I believe Hillsbus has done a good job on 610X etc, and other bus ope...

The death of metrobus is simply an act of bastardry by the current NSW government. Yet Metrobus is also a political stunt caused by the previous Labor government due to their mismanagement of bus services across Sydney. If the current government can come out with solution that maintains the service...

I wonder as Summer is ending in a month, will these services remain or it will revert back to pre-December frequencies?

It seems Transit Systems has printed and delivered some branded face masks yo its drivers.

I hope I can get one if they do decide to give away as a merchandise.

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HHH wrote: ↑Tue Jan 05, 2021 8:29 pm More CDC buses have arrived to Region 6 Tempe, about 10 are from Hunter Valley Buses.

What are the numbers and type of these buses?
I wonder with Metro is now fully operational in the Hills District, whether more buses will be transferred out of CDC into other regions?

Perhaps this should be the last STA Observations thread as STA is due to be privatised by the end of the year?
Perhaps we should discuss what observations thread is required for buses going forward.

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https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/node/11049 for 7, 8 and 9 is the latest I have heard - - nothing on the four in the previous post as all the work being done is on the STA regions at the moment. I just hope Transdev will never win more bus contracts in Sydney, preferably Transit Systems, as they ar...