From the Manningham Leader 21 May 2018 Bus driver morale ‘very low’ Transdev employee slams commitment Andrew Rogers A TRANSDEV bus driver says the operator’s ongoing commitment to provide rail replacement services is leading to cranky customers and stressed out drivers. Transdev insists it has eno...

Bus priority lights are purley smoke and mirrors. They're on a cycle, not a switch, they are usually last in the cycle as well. In the northern suburbs they are pretty useless and poorly managed. Reality is, pax and drivers think they are getting priority when they're actually being halted. There is...

Saw one of the 500 series from Sunshine depot last week broken down on Millers road, driver was told to either drive the bus back with no acceleration or walk back to the depot. Driver last seen huffing and pufffing towards Altona Gate shops.

In other words 'dex', cave in to management, which is interested only in its own convenience. The fare structure is good, the ticketing and payment aspects are abysmal. Years ago, your sentiment appeared in the immortal phrase: 'Close your eyes, and think of England'. You cave in to management beca...

hahaha!! Every bus driver has always wanted to do that!

Set at 22 degrees, usually all the time, I'm not paying for the running costs and it keeps most people happy. Sometimes I will run it at 25 in summer, it doesn't work the air con as hard and if it gets close to 25 on a 40 degree day, you've won by miles. It might seem crazy...but tit works. It also ...

Transdev was boasting on their Facebook page that they cleaned graffiti off 35 buses at their Sunshine depot on Sunday. https://www.facebook.com/Transdev-Melbourne-188561761286097/photos/?tab=album&album_id=872914669517466 | Shame they let it go for so long, no preventative measures put in plac...

Heihachi_73 wrote:Hopefully they ditch the SmartBus livery altogether when the buses go in for a repaint, the silver CR228Ls are looking a bit ordinary these days.

That would be the panel damage and lack of cleanliness that make them look ordinary.

"Free travel for children under five – From 30 January 2017, the free travel age for young children will be raised from three to four years old"

I thought that 4 and over, making a child at the age of four inclusive, was already the case?

White is a very corporate colour, like silver and black.
It is also easier to keep clean ,sounds weird but have a look at a white car, then a dark car.

Presentation is the key when the bus is on the back of a flatbed.

The bloke driving the Tulla coach is awfully familiar.

It was brought up in the mid 90s, out through Mickleham road, then out via Westmeadows/Attwood/Alanbrae.
The Alanbrae estate was new at the time and the residents opposed it, boom, gone.

Not related but out of curiosity do you get many problems with the 479? The only trouble we've had was usually the 500, Broady to Sunbury, a run I dubbed 'The loser cruiser'. I should preface that and say I actually live in Broadmeadows. The 479 and 500 had the dubious honour of it's hardened Sunbu...

CCTV on buses and the audio is quite good. I know from viewing a lot of footage at work, part of being an Operations Supervisor. That said, once it's downloaded and the authorities have it, it's really up to them and the courts, usually the police are keen to pursue but nothing generally comes of it...

You mean Broadmeadows North or Craigieburn South? Paul, as someone who frequented Roxy station as a driver on the 484 quite often, the safest thing to do if you are a driver is to shut your mouth and drive the bus. Many drivers, particularly 901 drivers learnt this after numerous assaults, numerous ...

They need to have a positive myki account and touch on or off, just like on the weekends.

Definitely Tulla.
The operator do the timetabling but ultimately the government have the final say and adjust accordingly.

Pffftt....charts and stats.. Sunbury line never gets checked, a lot like Broadmeadows and surrounding suburbs, most of the time inspectors refuse to go out that way. Fare evasion is massive in the northern suburbs, but fear and recurring assaults keeps the inspectors away. Stats also take into accou...

don't you mean 'NightRider'?

The beauty of the eastern suburbs. It's a bit unfair to tarnish the whole of the Eastern Suburbs. :lol: The problem for the 901 route is that given it travels through Frankston, Dandenong, Ringwood, Greensborough, Roxburgh Park and Broadmeadows, it is basically a "Contiki tour" of all of ...

Happens a fair bit over our way, 484 has had it's fair share of punch ups on the bus, there is a home for old men in Greenvale, they generally travel to and from the pub and end up punching on in the bus, usually ends in a bloody mess or an ambulance called.

philm wrote:Transdev opens new temporary North Melbourne Depot: https://twitter.com/Transdev_Melb/statu ... 4128262145

Apparently having issues with bogged buses due to the inclement weather.

You know what else is really bad? Sitting in traffic for hours on end whilst the rest of the city stand still. It's called progress. It's the same reason people upgrade their phone every six weeks, or upgrade their car, move house, get new glasses, watch 3d movies, use free wi-fi...so on. Unless you...

Yeah, but you should see the other guy!