Some E and V buses are now kicking about with them too. V2324, E2116, E2100 all come to mind.

Depending on the length of such an arrangement, it also gives an opportunity for the "new" EA to expire, and something beneficial to all drivers negotiated.

Not even close to all. 1400-1500, and 5060 have received the mods. This leaves 1351-1399, 1501-1523 and the remainder of the tags (can't remember what the allocation is at the moment - 5045-5079 I think) without any modifications. An ongoing security presence at Inala in the afternoon, well into the...

In the absence of any concrete information, we can only speculate, but if the competition are doing that much better, it says they either have a better recruitment campaign, and/or better measures in place to help with staff retention (E.g. remuneration, conditions in general, company morale/managem...

Was the guard aware of the situation, did anyone report the situation to the guard? Did you press the emergency help button to get the guard or driver attention? Emergency help buttons ... Unless someone is having a medical episode, walking up to one of these, and pushing it, is likely to inflame t...

A simple question with hopefully a simple answer: why has it taken 33 years to get from series A to series C? I think the simple answer is, there simply hasn't been a need for "a lot" of new rolling stock during the past 30 years since the introduction of the A-series; there was a period ...

In theory you are correct, in reality it’s not uncommon to run non stop from Bondi Beach to Bondi Junction on hot days with all the tourists, still exacerbating the situation. Even if the difference in loadings is only a meagre ten or so passengers, that still translates to an extra 120 people move...

sure its crowded and has its other challenges, but it beats hands down any infrequent bus winding its way down every back street that only operates when the sun is up :D This is definitely the bit that astounds me - that even Blind Freddy could see that "if you build it, they will come", ...

The one thing that puzzles me with all door loading, are the people who will queue up for the single-leaf back door, as a dozen or more people slowly tricky out, while the front door, and front area of the bus has plenty of vacant space. I like the back seats too, but not that much that I'll hold up...

Presumably the idea is to be able to keep concession entitlements with a minimum of fuss, and for those who'd prefer to keep a separate card... With the frequency of glitches in ticketing equipment, I personally wouldn't like to use my own debit card(s) with it anyway. Any other business with such a...

If only I get a $1 everytime you whine about low floor buses or all door boarding, I’ll be a rich man. I'd be several orders of magnitude richer by getting a $1 for every time anyone on a discussion board wheels out a topic of interest to them. :mrgreen: Anyone who has ever posted on this (or any) ...

I guess they're not too bothered with going back to 0 and starting over!

Linto63 wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 1:30 pm

Merc1107 wrote: ↑If my comment bugs you so much, scroll past it.

Did you not tell us recently that you have never actually been to Sydney?

And of what relevance is that to a comment about the wording of a headline?

This needless pedantism is incredibly tiresome.

Of course it's paywalled, but the sensationalist headline about routes to be "axed" and "cut short" suggests it's not likely the article will be praising the revised network... Obviously you didn’t read the article, if you can’t see it better to keep quiet rather than make Ill-i...

Of course it's paywalled, but the sensationalist headline about routes to be "axed" and "cut short" suggests it's not likely the article will be praising the revised network...

For comparison, the 2021-22 budget added 3.8 million annual service kilometres for the Airport, Yanchep, Thornlie and Lakelands projects combined, with the Airport line itself using up 1.7 million of that. So either the Ellenbrook line is going to see a better level of feeder bus service than we've...

However, as the only bus factory in Western Australia is Volgren Malaga, buying buses that come from Adelaide or Western Sydney doesn't make much sense. Brisbane Transport, however, seem to have gone for Volgren too, despite there being a Bustech factory in QLD as well - I believe such a choice wou...

Do operators that hold TransPerth bus contract have any say on what buses they order or does TransPerth tell the operators we are ordering a batch of 600 Volvos and we will say how many buses each depot receives. I know Transport For NSW allows the contract holding operator to select what buses the...

Plus TransPerth brand all their buses as TransPerth with no service operator lvl decals anywhere to be seen Not quite, a sticker is affixed to the window near the front, "This Transperth bus service is proudly operated by ...". On the high floors, the operators usually had a decal above t...

Linto63 wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 6:56 pm

tonyp wrote: ↑You'd never see an abomination like the Bustech with steps at the centre door in Perth.

Yet Bustechs have been purchased in large numbers by most other agencies.

Yes, and remind me, how's Canberra getting on with those new buses that never seem to actually materialise?

busdriver12 wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 2:29 pm

Swift wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 6:23 pm That's ridiculous. T South Wales wouldnt know consistency if it slapped them in the face.

Being over from Perth since mid march, I am gob smacked at the lack of uniformity of the fleet here in Sydney.

Would make for a pleasant change from the sea of drab green and silver, though!

scott wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 11:13 am I know I listen to too much 3AW, but this Victorian Government cannot run a chook raffle, if they did, they would probably sell the tickets, but forget to order the chook.

Or maybe sell the chook a few times over, and forget to buy the tickets!

Swift wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 3:29 amHey 1107 be warned, joy overload.
https://youtu.be/0iPLhkUoGDo?si=KkofRsEmMojGdWc2

Quite right! In the past I've watched videos on that channel of the SG192 to try and figure out how those might've sounded.

Five Years of Light Rail, from the Public Transport Association of Canberra. The original report can be found here.

At least it's only a temporary pain until the new P3 opens at Cultural Centre, and a through-lane to West End is restored (although this will involve a separate light phase at Cultural Centre as the Busway services will have to cross sides of the road here...).