American ghastliness seems to know no bounds.

The 4pm trip out of Chatswood would most likely be for students who have come by train or bus from several of the private schools in the North Sydney area.

Surely an equally significant part of the announcement, not reflected in the thread name, is the first noted use of Custom Denning as the new brand name for the combined operations.

I see the board has gone an hour into the future again - posted at exactly 8.00am

The bus industry is a real case of split personality on Covid. The route service and school contract sector has been relatively unaffected with most employment and service delivery maintained. Drivers are obviously at some risk but mask use and reduced nos of pax seem to have managed or mitigated th...

KBL 29 has gone south to Skennars in Sydney.

Presumably that means Sydney to Brisbane express services will no longer have an option for a suburban pick up at Hornsby?

Nice pick up from an obscure source!

Unfortunately the e-citaro remains irrelevant to Australia at this time as its overwidth and Europe is unlikely to produce a narrow version just for us.

I got as far as the proposed "rapid" bus route from Railway Square to Sutherland Hospital via Princes Highway before ROFLing.
Tried driving that route lately? The word rapid does not immediately come to mind.

There is a linkage between amplification and skyrail in Melbourne, mainly with the Caulfield-Dandenong section. This is very much at capacity having to cope with suburban services, V/Line pass every hour or more and several daily freight trains mainly interpeak. Even prior to Skyrail there were call...

The purpose of the clock was to record on time running. If the bus was a little early the driver would often stand by the clock for a minute or so before clocking in. They were referred to as Bundy Clocks where I grew up in Melbourne and were used extensively on the tram system.

I'd suggest the acid test for any low floor chassis is to be driven around West Wyalong for a few hours - that town has the most evil spoon drains in existence. If it works there it will work anywhere.

Looks like the Bustech CDi coach from Australia Wide in Sydney.

Personally I would take all ridership figures everywhere since February with a grain of salt. This is not a normal year.
Wellington and Melbourne had 90% plus patronage reductions at different times in the last 6 months.

That just transfers the burden of payment from the local residents who might actually use the service to all WA taxpayers, most of who won't. Not sure how that's a good thing.

Further to my post from Nov 2018, Drivers Denning decker was able to be rebuilt and re-entered service late 2019. Sadly the Motorcoach decker was beyond salvage and was scrapped.

I guess they have to make budget cuts elsewhere now that the route changes didnt go ahead.

The former Deanes is being rebirthed as Bus Canberra.

Staff were informed about a week ago. Took The Age a while to catch up.

They were not pre select as that requires the gear to be selected in advance of it being required - then activated by a foot pedal.
Busways B58s, Leyland Tigers and other models all had semi automatic gearboxes where the gear was selected at the time it was required.

Also its not a 1316 its a 1418 - no 1316s got the NZ Volgren bodies.

97 and 98 to Cumberland Coaches, Sydney; 100 to Shire, Sydney.

Correct but 99 remains as a spare.

The flash charging concept seems to be the way to go INHO. Not the silly and time wasting at each stop business like Newcastle trams but rather the at terminus version as is used, for example, on Vienna's inner city electric midis. These lay over for about 5 mins between trips and raise their panto ...