Kind of old news - that was in the September Australian Bus Panorama. Happened from 27 July.

A little more ventilation is always good.

And some of the charter buses have been fully signwritten for Transit Systems as well.

They have also recently announced a partnership with Cummins for battery and electric buses.

sure but this was more along the lines of a new manufacturer, possibly Chinas BYD building full buses here.

An article in Driven suggested that regional NSW may be a good location to set up a manufacturing plant for electric buses to meet the proposed 8,000 new ones mooted for Sydney over however many years. Queanbeyan was suggested as a possible location. Very much a wait and see thing I reckon.

TT - as I understood it the full line closures, when more buses are required, are to be during the school holidays so Link SA buses would be available. If on school days then you still have a number of coaches available from the various Adelaide charter operators - i.e those not allocated to private...

It went kaboom. That tends to happen when you run a bus with no oil in it and control says keep going.

Rather than use aging urban buses, why not use a mix of metro and modern school coaches from Link SA and others. As long as there is one or more low floors in each "train" of buses there are no DDA issues.

Its certainly an unusual event moving reasonably new buses from one operator to another.

The next batch of Perth CATS will almost certainly be either electric or hydrogen after they see the results of the Joondalup trial. That would suggest standard length but perhaps a few less seats.

Bus does not look too badly damaged at least the bits you can see!

Buslink was hardly a Qld business. The previous owners were Hannans from Darwin with some operations previously part owned by the Lucas family from Victoria. CDC took over the Hannans interests and the Lucas family withdrew from the partnership to focus on their original operations in Vic and SA.

Might be interesting to rebrand the Glenelg tram as Sealink.

Trouble with CD as an abbreviation is that its already in use for Coach Design.

Graduate is more the school coach spec.
Dunno about Alpine but Id assume a higher class coach spec.

25 years is maximum age - there is no requirement to retain the bus in service for that long

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!