Goodness. Nothing short of a 2m high chain link fence with barbed wire. It would look pretty hideous on that. Maybe something like this? Common on many 19th century trams https://img.zcdn.com.au/lf/8/hash/38295/19724150/4/Expandable%2BAluminium%2BBarrier%2BGate.jpg There will be an enquiry and inqu...

From my understanding, Ebusco and BCI have their electric buses produced by a Chinese firm called Wisdom Motor. So much for Ebusco touting themselves as European.

http://www.wisdommotor.com/CompanyProfile

In terms of advancement, though, perhaps it is time to move on. Unfortunately SmartRider vendors in Perth are few and far between, and as yet, debit/credit card payments are not possible onboard buses (so much for the new ticketing promised for the end of 2018!). So the need for cash remains until ...

Surely this looks ok to TNSW:
https://www.facebook.com/FerriesOfSydne ... 6366666311

(This was before it was taken out of service).

I think it’s time to bite the bullet and make the Citadis trams compatible for passenger service on IWLR to avoid this happening again. This incident, which we could be now looking at least several weeks of no L1 service, is just completely appalling and is an indictment on ordering trams with diff...

Not entirely... Operators are no longer being allocated individual blocks of fleet numbers... They will now share the same blocks as is done with the artics :roll: Meaning some of them could end up with Path? What about 2791-99? Presumably Path will get those then once its filled up, they will get ...

Mercedes-Benz Electric bus coming to Australia in 2022 https://www.busnews.com.au/industry-news/2109/mercedes-benz-electric-bus-chassis-2022-in-australia Better than the Volvo 7900? Considering they just had another eCitaro starting a fire that spread throughout the whole depot in Stuttgart, I woul...

https://www.sustainable-bus.com/compone ... is-brazil/

Mercedes Benz is looking into importing the Brazilian eO500U into Oceania. The diesel O500Us are currently marketed as the OH1830LE in Australia.

One benefit of opportunity charging in the future is that it reduces the load on the power grid. Imagine in the future, having every vehicle, personal or commercial, charging only at night, worse if its on a hot summer night where residential power usage is higher due to air-conditioning units being...

Twelve buses - that's a serious commitment! Here is a more direct web link: https://transportnsw.info/snowy-mountains-bus-trial#regional-carousel I wonder if there is a reduced school PVR requirement on Fridays in the area. If so, it may mean that the 12 vehicle investment is just utilising idle re...

Swift wrote: ↑Sun Jun 27, 2021 3:11 pm Some foreign based concern? How surprising (if so).

The other airport transport company, Carbridge, is owned by Swissport.

The Liberal states see the significance of keeping their economies, in which small business plays a significant role, going. The Labor states see small business as mere collateral damage, based I guess on the philosophy that small business owners are capitalists (never mind the well-being of all th...

On the DOTARS RVCS certification, the chassis is designated as Volvo B0E.

Thanks. Skimmed a few. Interesting that Nexport talks about the possibility of a diesel to battery conversion. The Bustech XDis being built in Tasmania are designed for conversion to electric drive, with the diesel pulled out at the rear and an electric motor and two battery banks either side inser...

They are Volgren's contractor in Malaysia, most of the Enduras are built there.

TA3001 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:14 pm Where does the name 'Lion's city' originate from?

That comes from the Lion badge inherited from Büssing, and "City" refers to city buses. The Lion's City is the branding for MAN integral city buses from 1996 onwards.

Similarly, Lion's Coach is the name for integral coaches from MAN.

Swift wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 9:30 am Low entry and low floor are completely distinct configurations. State Transit let go of it's only low floor to Transit Systems -the fabled 2112.

The B Line MAN A95s are low floor.

covo95 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 4:51 pm got any photos or links supporting that statement? i cannot find any myself

It is on the Ferries of Sydney facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/FerriesOfSydne ... ?__tn__=-R

Laugh you may at the looks of it, but it is the most practical design of all the products available for the size range and usage type.

Don't know about this argument. The Quebecers buy standard North American buses for their cities rather than any French or another European bus. Two of big "American" brands, New Flyer and Novabus, are headquartered in Canada. Novabus, owned by Volvo, is in fact a Quebec based company. Th...

Route 410 is Transit Systems. Yes - but there's nowhere to post it otherwise. If I post it in Private Observations , it won't be 100% correct either. My point being, the scheduling is definitely not coordinated and whilst it could be difficult to coordinate, I think the next step would be to increa...

CDC Broken Hill is indeed no longer under CDC Victoria. It is now one of the operations of CDC NSW: https://cdcbus.com.au/ . CDC Mildura remains under CDC Victoria. As mentioned in the NSW sub-board: Broken Hill is under CDC NSW only for branding purposes, operationally, they are still under CDC Vi...

Buslink Broken Hill is officially renamed CDC Broken Hill, along with Buslink Sunraysia into CDC Mildura. https://cdcvictoria.com.au/latest-news/buslink-sunraysia-broken-hill-officially-renamed-cdc-mildura-cdc-broken-hill/ CDC Broken Hill is now under CDC NSW; it is now one of the operations on CDC...

Noticed a bus in Mildura in CDC white, blue and orange livery with CDC Mildura branding, so presumably the Buslink brand is being phased out. https://www.facebook.com/cdcvictoriabus/posts/1453017914866085?__tn__=-R CDC Victoria has officially rebranded Buslink Sunraysia and Buslink Broken Hill to C...

Why did Hong Kong operate almost exclusively Voith gearboxes for decades, despite hilly typography? Because they are a vastly superior transmission to the temperamental and jerky ZF. Busways has evidently latched into this and know the vast chasm in passenger experience between their woeful ZF MANs...