East Gippsland Bus Timetable

[Mike M]

PTV have produced a new East Gippsland Bus Timetable effective from 4 June 2012. The 72 page booklet includes foldout network maps for Bairnsdale & Lakes Entrance plus the following timetables.

East Gippsland intertown bus services

Route 10 Bairnsdale to Marlo
Route 11 Bairnsdale to Lake Tyers Beach
Route 12 Bairnsdale to Gelantipy
Route 13 Bairnsdale to Paynesville
Route 14 Bairnsdale to Omeo

Bairnsdale town services

Route 1 Bairnsdale to West Bairnsdale
Route 2 Bairnsdale to East Bairnsdale
Route 3 Bairnsdale to Wy Yung

Lakes Entrance town services

Route 1 Kalimna
Route 2 North
Route 3 East

[runawaybus]

This shows the innovativeness of Victoria compared to other places in Australia. For example how hard would it be for example to provide a North Coast timetable for NSW buses that would incorporate say Coffs Harbour, Kempsey, Grafton local bus services as well as highway services between the cities as well as a Countrylink train timetable. But that will never happen because all the operators somehow probably won't work together.

I have always said that Victoria has lead the way for booklet timetables- look at the cities of Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, Bellarine Peninsula, Portland, Horsham that is just a few I know.

However, one criticisim I have and that is by even some bus operators in these cities at the back there could be say two pages only for a list of departure times and arrival times to Southern Cross and vice versa for the train services it would go a long way in not confusing the general public who I have heard from few companies who think actually that Dyson's Bairnsdale runs the train to Melbourne etc.

Well done and this shows what can be done with great working together with each other and not against each other to have integrated information package that the public can easily use.

However, as we know the route maps should show where bus stops are shown but apart from that I don't have a problem.