Darwin Route Changes

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The below bus routes will start on Monday 27 August.

The new services will operate from the Palmerston bus interchange approximately every 30 minutes on weekdays and hourly on weekends.
Route 87: Durack Heights
Route 88: Palmerston Regional Hospital

Both routes commenced operation on Monday 27th August 2018.

The new route 87 services the suburb of Durack Heights. In addition, it also services the eastern part of Woodlake Blvd in Durack, in the opposite direction to the 73 Circular (Timetable and Map) service that currently operates.
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The new route 88 service services the new Palmerston Hospital Precinct.
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Extra route 4 bus service

An extra route 4 bus service will depart from Casuarina Interchange at 6.05am Monday to Friday.

The service will start operating on Tuesday 29 January 2019.

New timetable for Casuarina to Darwin Route 4; now the first service is at 0605hrs instead of 0635hrs.

Since October of 2018, weekend services for the 4 have included a deviation for the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.

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Posting this little update here predominantly because of the bus priority included - a Facebook post by the NT DIPL reports this will give buses a head-start at the intersection by about 6 seconds.

Bus Stop 70 Darwin City – returning to Cavenagh Street
The bus stop was temporarily moved to Smith Street during the construction of Garramilla Boulevard.

As part of this relocation, the Northern Territory’s first ‘B light’ will be installed on the Cavenagh Street and Garramilla Boulevard intersection traffic lights for a safer and smoother traffic flow.

Two new electronic timetables will also be installed as a trial at the Cavenagh Street bus stop, providing interactive and real time information for passengers.

Construction
Works will commence on Cavenagh Street 17 August 2020.

Traffic management will be in place during construction and all efforts will be made to minimise disruption where possible.

The bus stop on Smith Street will continue to be used until works on Cavenagh Street are complete.

Timetable and route changes
Changes to timetables and routes will commence after construction.

Buses will enter the city via Daly and Mitchell Streets, travel through to the interchange on Harry Chan Avenue, then exit the city via Cavenagh Street through Daly Street. Please refer to the attached map.

There will be minor changes to timetables across the wider Darwin and Palmerston network. School bus services will stop at St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School bus stop, with urban services stopping at the St Mary’s stop by “Hail and Ride” when required.

Some Monday to Friday services will experience slight changes to departure times (1-2 minutes later) to prevent congestion at the Cavenagh Street stop. Weekend services will remain the same.

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Additional Sunday services to Mindil Beach Markets - 2020.
Due to the last i4 leaving the markets at 1930 additional services will be run until the end of the markets 2020.
As of Sunday the 6th of September, route 14 will run to a changed timetable on Sundays, normal service will run until the 1940 i14. The 1940 and 2030 i14 will be changed to i14M. i14M will run a normal route until reaching Lambell Tce after Cullen Bay, it will then run down to Mindil Beach where it will pick up aswell as the Casino, and return to normal route of travel into Darwin. An additional 2 i15 will also run at 2005 and 2100.
The 2050 i14C to the convention centre will be not run.
For more information see https://nt.gov.au/driving/public-transp ... te-changes