What bus did you get today? (2007-2018)

[Snorzac]

494 (Off road test drive)- Will be able to hold a working bee to clean her up very very soon

[Bus 400]

616-900
606-967
600-966
560-962
584-900
617-11A
617-11A
502-938
554-935
595-950
545-954
555-900

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[Bus 400]

From Friday.

Oscar Set (Illawarra Line) Coniston to Central
Millennium Set (T7) Central to Olympic Park
Millennium Set (T7) Olympic Park to Central *Possibly the same one as above, but I was doing other things
Oscar Set (Illawarra Line) Central to Coniston

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[triumph]

384 (315)
472 (300)
484 (343)
613 (26)
326 (182)
590 (300)
625 (30)
559 (315)

The ride on 625 completes at least one ride on all of the current in service regular route fleet and the 6 City Loop Darts when in route fleet use. (Note: 626, according to the fleet wiki, is not yet in service.)

[triumph]

Yesterday, 21st
  (315)
421 (52)
909 (15)
440 (15)
626 (44)
103 (14)
526 (319)
625 (315)

[Bus 400]

Bus 494 (MAN SL200)

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[Busfanatic101]

369 (67)
324 (S/R)
395 (4)
405 (39)
937 (39)
147 (101)
484 (313)
499 (5)

[triumph]

320 (315)
424 (313)
151 (101)
628 (300)
614 (7)
439 (2)
464 (300)
362 (66)
372 (66)
331 (316)
972 (2)
627 (319)
495 (314)
469 (315)

[lukeo25]

964 - 88 - Woden - Hume (first 88 of the day)

[Bus 400]

Premier Illawarra Bus 7440 - 55C (North Beach to North Wollongong Station)
NSW Trainlink H13 (North Wollongong to Albion Park)
NSW Trainlink H20  (Albion Park to Thirroul)
Dions Buses Bus 9270 - 1 (Thirroul to Austinmer)
Dions Buses Bus 5334 - 1 (Austinmer to Wollongong)
Premier Illawarra Bus 7439 - 55C (Wollongong Council to North Beach)

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[Snorzac]

Yesterday
103 (51)
368 (200)
524 (343)
627 (14)
485 (14)
433 (51)

[triumph]

Yesterday, 22nd May
543 (15)
977 (7)  This bus is one with the Mrk 1 capacity on rear.
942 (2)
392 (2)
315 (1)
312 (60, including Gleneagles)
427 (705)
478 (315)

[triumph]

437 (906) Due planned closure Cohen St., diverted via Luxton and Lathlain Sts.
622 (900)
592  (934)
586 (935)
557 (900)
593 (906) Due planned closure Cohen St., diverted via Lathlain and Luxton Sts. Traffic lights exiting Westfield on flashing yellow to allow this. Internal display showed Cohen St next stop until AFTER departure from 1st Florey stop.

[triumph]

29th May
493 (315)
964 (2)
115 (80)
106 (200)
108 (744)
957 (313)
107 (315)

[Busnerd]

894
898

[Snorzac]

397 (300)
954 (314)


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[triumph]

419 (15)
628 (40)
151 (101)
630 (3)
966 (54)
594 (200)
971 (259)
122 (57)
943 (162)
915 (313)
631 (316)
105 (319)
416 (343)
374 (314)
959 (315)

[Sylvan Loves Buses]

Now, I'm pretty sure I am not the first to bike 'n' ride an artic with the new racks, if I am, then what the hell... cause up until now I had not seen a single Artic rack in use.

493 (300N)
392 (21S)
522 (300S) B&R
510 (315N) B&R

 

All that's left to find out now is if the use is allowed on normal services. I did see a 61N with an artic before getting on 522, but once again wasn't being used. Just like this, I guess I'll have to find out myself.

[triumph]

Not ACTION and not all buses but this seems (from past posts) to be the topic used.

VH-VZU "Lorne", 737-800 (QF795 Canberra-Melbourne)
33, Tullamarine Bus Lines (rte 479 Melbourne Airport - Airport West tram terminus)
2099, B2 class tram (rte 59 Airport West - Moonee Ponds Junction)
209 Z3 class tram (rte 82 Moonee Ponds Junction - Footscray)
748M, part of train (Footscray - Flinders St via Southern Cross)
2063, B2 Class (rte ??, 1 stop Flinders St - Arts Precinct)
126, Z3 Class (rte 5, 1 stop Arts Precinct - Flinders St)
879M, part of train (S. Morang service, Flinders St - S. Morang via Southern Cross)
8390, Volvo B7R, Transdev (rte 901 S. Morang - Melbourne Airport. 'Smart Bus' service originating Frankston)
VH-VZY "Temora", 737-800 (QF822 Melborne-Canberra)

Notes:
The "Smart Bus" rte 901 runs every quarter hour and takes mostly over 4 hrs between Frankston and Melbourne Airport on a route orbiting around the outer suburbs. So this one route alone would irequire the assignment of over 34 buses.

Flight time take off to landing to Melborne 53min and on return only 41min. Entirely down to head versus tail winds.

[Sylvan Loves Buses]

524 (64N) B&R
972 (163S)

I still haven't called ACTION to ask about the routes that may or may not allow usage of the bike racks on the artics, but from what I can guess until then, it is up to the driver.

[King of Buses]

I still haven't called ACTION to ask about the routes that may or may not allow usage of the bike racks on the artics, but from what I can guess until then, it is up to the driver.

I would think all of them, given the artics haven't been restricted to certain routes like the STAGs,

[Sylvan Loves Buses]

I would normally agree, however, there is the concern of the suburbs that have those roundabouts or sharp turns followed by the keep-right signed islands, a few of which on Langdon Ave I've had some close calls with by either having my bike or the rack getting bumped by the signs when a standard bus is turning past them.



423 (64N)
943 (343S)
494 (62S)

[Busfanatic101]

Don't you think action would have said something if they were imposing any restrictions on bike rack use of artics? I don't think it would be any harder with an artic, possibly even easier to get around those roundabouts. I presume you mean keep left, not right.
If you want to impose your own restriction on bike rack use just don't put your bike on those routes. But if no restrictions are placed on standard buses that are in some cases failing to get around, why should they restrict artics with the same issue?

[King of Buses]

539 (319)
948 (61)
982 (1)
343 (300)
356 (1)
474 (313)
466 (250)
925 (200)
358 (300)
414 (343)
564 (343)
966 (25)
973 (27)
362 (63)
934 (61)
470 (319)

[Bus 400]

604-900 Wanniassa to Tuggeranong
614-967 Tuggeranong to Chisholm
382-966 Chisholm to Tuggeranong
618-964 Tuggeranong to Woden
333-900 Woden to City
419-956 City to Gungahlin
589-954 Gungahlin to Belconnen
406-903 Belconnen to Fraser
457-905 Fraser to Kippax
452-904 Kippax to Belconnen
593-900 Belconnen to City
624-11A City to Canberra Airport
624-11A Canberra Airport to City
567-900 City to Wanniassa

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[Sylvan Loves Buses]

568 (962N)
608 (900N)
546 (980N)
576 (958S) - well I would've, had someone not crashed into the back of 576 as I was boarding it...
so instead, 574 (932S)
626 (900S)
421 (900S)

[Busfanatic101]

385 (67)
402 (4)
517 (4)
355 (300)
977 (163)
627 (67) First ACTION Bustech ride! Initial impression when boarding was whoa, when seated was still whoa. Not sure how taken I am with the interior, looks cool as you get on facing the back but not so cool seated facing the front. It was after dark so not quite sure what the effect is but what's with the blue spots all over the windows? Exhilarating ride nonetheless and felt more powerful than the E6 although there's no reason it should be, probably just the perception that comes with getting on a new bus.

[King of Buses]

First ACTION Bustech ride! Initial impression when boarding was whoa, when seated was still whoa. Not sure how taken I am with the interior, looks cool as you get on facing the back but not so cool seated facing the front. It was after dark so not quite sure what the effect is but what's with the blue spots all over the windows? Exhilarating ride nonetheless and felt more powerful than the E6 although there's no reason it should be, probably just the perception that comes with getting on a new bus.

The Custom CB80 Scania K320UB Euro VI's and the Bustech VST Scania K320UB Euro VI's are equally powerful - they're have the same chassis/engines! The only difference is the bodywork.

As for those "blue spots," they're actually an anti-graffiti measure.

[lukeo25]

970 (88 - Hume to Woden)

[Snorzac]

566 (315)
455 (3)

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[Snorzac]

494 (3)
962 (300)
381 (11)
381 (11)
326 (313)
380 (14)
627 (313)
320 (3)

[Busfanatic101]

353 (67)
576 (4)
434 (5)
632 (65) - Presumably first day, possibly first run in service if it wasn't out in the morning, but MyWay machine already broken. The excitement for the Melrose HS students was real - "woah it's a new bus, like really really new" "whoa look at the stop light it's so fancy it doesn't just say stop it says bus stopping" "woah look at the stop buttons you can actually read the writing it hasn't been scratched off" "whoa it's so shiny" "woah this bus smells I can still smell the newness" ... You get the idea. And I'm sitting there like grrrrrr...

[Snorzac]

585 (3)
635 (300) Most probably the inaugural service

[King of Buses]

412 (319)
622 (300)
923 (343)
963 (7)
980 (2)
913 (5)
362 (71)
320 (313)
458 (300)
122 (313)
635 (300)
424 (318)
597 (319)
967 (66)
454 (319)

[triumph]

489 (315)
633 (343)
358 (3)
560 (1)
608 (1)
635 (300)
468 (300)
938 (60)
496 (300)
965 (80)
353 (80)
933 (314)
110 (315)

[triumph]

611 (315)
366 (1)
457 (3)
383 (313)
957 (40)
908 (17)
464 (343)
484 (315)
Note: All to do with need to travel to Hughes, Civic, Belconnen (2 locations), Kippax using next available services. It is surprising how many services can be used just to get around.

[Snorzac]

Seems we crossed paths yesterday triumph

Yesterday Evening-
331 (343)
386 (315)
604 (343)

Today-
618 (3)
585 (300)
454 (318)
939 (182)
344 (182)
398 (3)

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[Bus 400]

Todays trip around Sydney.

Transdev Bus 5349 - M92 (Rosehill to Parramatta)
Sydney Buses Bus 1856 - 525 (Parramatta to North Parramatta)
Sydney Ferries Marlene Matthews - F3 (Parramatta to Barrangaroo)
                             Sirius - F4 (Barrangaroo to Milsons Point)
Sydney Buses Bus 4962 -230 (Milsons Point to Mosman Bay Wharf)
Sydney Ferries Scarborough - F6 (Mosman Bay to Circular Quay)
Sydney Buses Bus 2552 - 373 (Circular Quay to Coogee)
                           Bus 4824 - 372 (Coogee to Railway Square)
Sydney Trains A69 - T1 (Central to St Leonards)
                           A29 - T1(St Leonards to Macquarie Park)
Sydney Buses Bus 2152 - M54 (Macquarie Park to Carlingford)
Sydney Trains S56 - T6 (Carlingford to Rosehill)

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[Snorzac]

475 (343)
485 (200)
591 (200)
349 (80)
389 (254)
324 (318)

[triumph]

346 (315)
385 (1)
542 (3)
150 (101)
585 (200)
554 (200)
148 (101)
945 (1)
621 (749) Rattles were a bit disappointing. Noted a quiet low pitch body drumming when slowing down. Looks good in TC livery.
610 (315)

[Sylvan Loves Buses]

502 (71N) B&R
482 (315N)
949 (300S)
621 (749N)
104 (319S)
945 (163S) B&R

[Sylvan Loves Buses]

This was actually Friday; (all B&R)

Numbers coloured blue - buses I hadn't yet caught this year

614 (2N)
634 (4S)
507 (200N)
148 (101N)
507 (58S)
147 (101N)
317 (1E)
931 (10E)
313 (9S)
327 (4S)
488 (200N)
119 (251N)
901 (56S)
934 (31S)
110 (200S)
530 (714N)
113 (7W)
147 (101E)
120 (8W)
961 (1E)
107 (2S)
939 (64S)

Well, I'll certainly be going back to City to be doing that again, 15/22 is pretty good

[King of Buses]

423 (319)
625 (300)
468 (318)
511 (10/11*)
427 (4)
621 (3)
550 (250)
544 (200)
519 (313)
372 (71)
470 (343)
926 (300)
532 (775)
598 (319)


* Actually an 11, but decided to follow route 10 until the War Memorial before running down ANZAC Parade to resume normal running.

[King of Buses]

502 (719)
712 (Media Launch)
710 (Media Launch)
970 (1)
970 (2)
970 (64)

[Sylvan Loves Buses]

(Friday 1st)

119 (61S) B&R
499 (63W) B&R
359 (300N) B&R
526 (343N) B&R
909 (200N) B&R
928 (58S) B&R
145 (101E)
453 (7W)
310 (39N) B&R
343 (30S) B&R
306 (7W) B&R
910 (40W) B&R
579 (319S) B&R
581 (300S) B&R
951 (61S) B&R


(Saturday 2nd) - all B&R

443 (962N)
613 (900N)
618 (936N)
622 (958S)
639 (900S)
451 (962N)

[King of Buses]

540 (319)
637 (313)
478 (318)
113 (7)
359 (343)
628 (12)
975 (12)
975 (319)
710 (18)
507 (319)

[Busfanatic101]

364 (67)
449 (163)
584 (56)
710 (56) first boarding (and sighting). It was pretty cool, sounds so different, though the brakes seemed less effective and jerky, you notice the clatter more because of the quieter engine (which does not make for a quieter trip overall) and the interior is a little more bland. The front > < shaped LED lights that I hadn't noticed from initial photos are cool
545 (3)

[Busfanatic101]

637 (65)
480 (319) 15+ minutes late due to congestion from 3 car crash near Parliament House
598 (56)
562 (31)
476 (200)
710 (56) also noticed today how much more legroom there is for all seats compared to our usual ones
100 (318) blowing cold air out of heaters 
961 (67)

[King of Buses]

ex-803 (Charters)

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[triumph]

13th Sept 17
498 (315)
327 (1)
452 (3)
150 (101)
710 (200)  Motor whine was louder (I was seated near rear door) than I expected. Noticed next stop indicator positioned near rear door.
931 (52)
481 (315)