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20 new articulated buses

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Interesting article here on the Canberra Times website about 20 new articulated buses for ACTION.
The ACTION bus service will see the eventual delivery of 19 more articulated buses between now and March next year.
The article also includes a link to A History of Canberra's Buses photo gallery.

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Are any of these in service yet?
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The Inspector wrote:Are any of these in service yet?
nope
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506 will be used for a NRL Special tomorrow night - not sure which service it's on though.

508 arrived this week also. 506 is at Belco, 507 and 508 at Woden.
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Surely ACTION wil need 20 new bus drivers, right? :D
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Why? The new buses are not additional but replacements.
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I will be in Canberra for 4 weeks from this friday so hope to see them out in service and get some pics.
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4 weeks in Canberra Inspector??

Must be your punishment for lighting farts in the CS decker last week eh?
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1whoknows wrote:4 weeks in Canberra Inspector??

Must be your punishment for lighting farts in the CS decker last week eh?

Nope, operating a shuttle service for the Floriade.
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There's only one in service at the moment, although two more were moved from Woden Depot the other day.

There's only 11 artics assigned to Belconnen (excluding the new ones) so there's a fairly limited number of shifts they operate on at present.
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