First in a Voith, by the admission of their own literature, is designed to get the engine into its optimum power & torque zone quickly, and when on a grade, hold it in that area to make hill climbs easier.

If they don't want their buses thrashed, perhaps a more realistic timetable should be set?

You have to wonder what on earth Volvo were thinking making a City bus (the B12) with that sort of (truck / coach) engine, to then go and pair it with a Voith with it's large gaps between each gear, that keeps the bus out of its peak power / torque zone ... the mind boggles. They do drive smoothly, ...

Even if there are rules, enforcement of them is usually discouraged by the powers that be for fear of offence or undue inconvenience

With UQ Lakes seemingly back to normal, guess the 66 will no longer be a loop and G can help out there again - although with how many tags G lost to S at the start of the year, I wonder if they'll lose trips on other tag/artic routes as a result?

"Fool" economy, I guess

Bit pathetic that people are forced to wait 1hr bus service in 2024. And the government wonders why people drive their cars around. It could be more frequent, but I'm not sure that it's justified by patronage outside peak hour Not sure... The few 42s I've been on outside of peak hour or leading int...

They're in the business of "delivery", not sure why letters are considered a separate division.

February the new March? In all seriousness though, that's a pretty significant deterioration, especially complaints.

I don't think anyone asked for one...

Some of what shows up on rail has definitely seen happier days, although the economics of purchasing so many buses to have them waiting for something to go wrong, is not great. These buses will be leased to regular route operators when the rail replacement service is not required. That doesn't add ...

Add to that, the lack of Lord Mayor, presence of other Councillors or the RTBU (at least from the information given) at the press conference would tend to indicate this doesn't involve TfB.

Some of what shows up on rail has definitely seen happier days, although the economics of purchasing so many buses to have them waiting for something to go wrong, is not great.

I'd love to know how on earth they need 200 buses for rail replacement (some major, lengthy disruptions planned?), and who, exactly, gets to operate these - unless TMR themselves plan to do it?

Can't see this being of relevance to the TfB thread.

The lone B12BLE in Darwin (itself a Euro III) was prone to having its fans roar. After a couple of months off-traffic in 2021, it returned to service without the nuisance racket ever surfacing again. So it seems to me the "problem" may simply be a lack of preventative maintenance (steam cl...

If the bus has been spotted at CV, and the rego has lapsed, then those two details together would suggest the bus been withdrawn.

I'd like to know how many buses in the NSW bus fleet have FUNCTIONING fire suppression systems (FSS). I assume they all have FSS when new, but the FSS is not inspected along with everything else (brakes, tyres, seat-belts, etc...) at the mandatory 6-monthly inspections by TfNSW. Why?: because FSS s...

A return of the 400 in its pre-2018 format would be all but impossible with privatisation - half of the route would be in Region 9 and the other half in Region 6. This may not have been a problem previously as both regions used to be with State Transit - although I recall route sharing on the 400 e...

God forbid a depot full of those things ever goes up... It would be beyond catastrophic.

Interesting there have been amendments to the 206 service but no updated timetable... It seems there are a lot of changes lately that "will be incorporated into the timetable at a later date". I guess it's reasonable not to be reprinting timetables endlessly for minor changes - but that s...

Articulated buses should be able to park flush to the kerb so that their rear doesn't protrude blocking the road for following traffic, hence routes they operate on have longer bus zones. Not that they, nor rigids for that matter, are always driven that way. Absolutely - both on stop design and how...

There were some (so far) unsubstantiated claims this bus was the original 6004 with Transport for Brisbane, which never entered service ... Had seen it a couple of times around the south-side on test drives in its cleanskin livery quite some time ago. If it is the same bus, I hope they've managed to...

Amazing what happens when you give people more than a tokenistic bus service in an established area!

For several months now a Clark's Bustech Electric (in a special maroon Indigenous livery, by the looks) has been marooned at a bus dealer beside Stable Swamp Creek by Ipswich Rd in Rocklea. Evidently something has gone majorly wrong with the bus - anyone heard anything about it?

I think you're reading too much into that. It likely turns red once the buses' doors shut to indicate the doors will not open again. Perth Busport has a similar (albeit less obvious) setup.

Is that a question or a statement?