Our Articles section contains an archive of news stories regarding Canberra Buses dating back to the 1920s
The first bus service to Lyneham commenced on 22 December 1958, when the group of routes – numbers 29, 30, 31 and 33 – were extended from O’Connor to the yet-to-be-constructed Lyneham Shops.
Until the launch of the ACTION trading name in 1977, the ‘owners’ of the bus service had used, with little consistency, a great variety of names to describe the operation of public transport in Canberra.
Only six houses in Kambah were occupied when the Canberra City Omnibus Service first ran to the then new suburb on 24 June 1974.
With over 350 buses in the ACTION Fleet fitted with bicycle racks, it’s getting easier than ever to get around without your car.
Shelton Newman, ACTION Transport Officer, tells of the events at Tuggeranong Depot during Canberra’s worst natural disaster. On Saturday 18 January 2003 I just happened to be the supervisor on duty, but no matter which officer was on duty would have been the same. I do feel, however, that this Read more…
From: Canberra Times BY GRAHAM DOWNIE 01 Jul, 2002 07:42 AM New ACTION fares begin today with the abolition of the zonal system. The change means about 70 per cent of current passengers will pay about 6 per cent more and about 30 per cent will pay up to 46 Read more…
A decision on new ACTION buses is imminent, with the choice between Scania and MAN. At a cost of $350,000 to $400,000 each, the Government has budgeted for 10 new buses next year and three for each of the next three years. The Labor Party has stopped short of a Read more…
Seventeen extra school buses will hit Canberra’s roads today, with existing services expected to be full to bursting as the Government’s pre-election school bus scheme kicks off. Just under 17,400 students have already received their free bus passes, with about 900 applications rejected. Urban Services Minister Brendan Smyth said 17 Read more…
The ACT Government’s free bus travel scheme discriminates against some students and will destabilise government schools, leading to some closures, according to an Australia Institute report. Given to The Canberra Times two days before the scheme swings into action, the report slams the pre-election policy as money-wasting and biased towards Read more…
In just six days as many as 17,000 Canberra schoolchildren will walk through the morning chill to the bus stop and catch a free ride to school, courtesy of the ACT taxpayer and a Liberal Government very keen on winning another term. Public servants and staff at ACTION buses have Read more…
The $1.4 million fee to hire buses to cope with the start of the free school bus travel scheme on September 3 has been labelled a “waste of money” by Labor MLA Wayne Berry.
Some commuters have backed a ban which means bus drivers will not pick up or drop off passengers at Manuka bus stops when cars are illegally parked in the bus zones. Transport Workers’ Union ACT secretary Andrew Whale said bus drivers, who were concerned about passenger safety, endorsed the boycott Read more…
The Liberals promised they’d do it six years ago, but no-one dreamed they would. Non Government school lobbyists had occasionally raised the free school bus plan (promised by the Liberals in 1995, but not delivered) but it had long been dismissed by unions and government-school lobby groups. The thinking was Read more…
THE HYSTERICAL cries over Australia’s petrol prices are not being reflected in a rush to forsake the private car for public transport. The Federal Government is being warned daily that the ‘anger and outrage’ over petrol prices will see it replaced at this year’s election. But it seems all this Read more…
One man has died and five school children were injured in a horror day for ACTION buses on Canberra roads yesterday. Ambulance paramedics and police were called to three separate accidents after 3pm, two involving ACTION buses. A man believed to be in his 40s was killed instantly after being Read more…