PTA/Transperth Bus Observations - June 2014

[TP1462]

Whereabouts 1462? Considering Albany Highway is around 400km long..

Very funny near Victoria Park transfer station just over the causeway heading north-west probably on driver training

[User 11872]

Driver training? Saw 2318 doing DT today

[TP1462]

Must have been the day for path driver training also saw 2321 on driver training traversing William street

[Bus-1809]

2163-2166 delivered to Joondalup on Monday.

[TP1462]

Yea so I've been told that must be the highest number for an Optimus bus in service they mustn't be in service just yet, apparently 2167-2169/2170 will be delivered by weeks end. Joondalup/Wangara will probably be getting a fair few that'll be used as feeder bus services for the Butler extension

[perthbus]

No 2170 just yet...69 will be the highest.

There are 2 Volvos at Wangara for driver training/familiarisation 2126 and 2149 on a temp basis. 2149 was out tonight.

[TP1462]

Yea I know about 2149, I wonder how many Wangara will get, I really hope the diesel OCs don't go regional.

[Q4004]

1847 at Southern River. Forgot to mention I saw it doing a 211F last Thursday and it's refurbished.

[Bus-1809]

1847's been at Gosnells for close on 2 months now. It's been reported on here already

[TP1462]

Not the best quality photo but here's Mercedes Benz OC500LE diesel 2209 racing Mercedes Benz OC500LE CNG 1889 south bound on the Mitchell Freeway taken from inside B set 078

[the c man]

On my way to work passing midvale depot and there appears to be a Volvo artic

[TP1462]

The bus shelters at Midland station are getting replaced saw a nice new shiny modern installed yesterday as part of the modernisation and improved network usability to signage and overall network reliability.

[Merc & Renault Bus_1]

Three Volvo B12B's were seen at Rockingham Station last night at 12:30 in the morning, I think it must be rail replacement between Rockingham and Mandurah.

[the c man]

Was closed between Cockburn Central and Rockingham

[Merc & Renault Bus_1]

I saw 1947 doing a 909 Rail Replacement bus heading along Ennis Ave south of Rockingham Station last night at about 12:15am in as well, and I saw a railway track grinder on the tracks between Rockingham & Warnbro Station when I was heading along Ennis Ave as well.

[Mr OC Benz]

Yes I believe Rockingham to Mandurah was shut last night and will be nightly closures next week also.

[High Floor Bus]

Sunday the 29th saw these buses on Midland to Perth rail replacement till about 15.00 .
Path Kalamunda 3005 & 2352 , Morley /Bayswater 3001,3011,3016,3030,2306,2009,2007,1889,1864,1716 &1717

[Bus-1809]

One of my associates informed me that 1133 was out on the circle route this afternoon

[goroundandround]

is it possible to just display destination without numbers, or is it a programming error?

Either numbers or destinations can be displayed together or independently.

But there's no option to select spaces in the route number, so a blank indicates a fault.

(That lack of space is a bug, BTW, as it means that two digit route numbers can't be displayed correctly.)

[Mr OC Benz]

It sounds like the driver may have just entered the destination into the Thoreb and forgotten to enter the route number (or accidentally pressed OK too early and didn't realise the numbers weren't entered). I have seen that a few times especially with the destination having to be put in via the Thoreb. It seems it is much easier to make a mistake than with the very simple, but effective ICU400 controller.