Satelite Yards

[ScaniaL94UB]

Hi all,

Just wondering does anyone have information on which buses are being replaced at Metro Tasmania, and what buses are allocated to satelite yards? and Springfield Depot

[leyland clippers]

Since the re-fuelling and cleaning has been outsourced certain buses are now not designated satellite yard buses. Before satellite yard drivers had their own bus all the time. Now they have different buses.

[ScaniaL94UB]

Thanks for that info.

[leyland clippers]

Thanks for that info.

No worries.

[Tas Bus Nut]

Yeh, as Frosty mentioned Josh, there are no longer designated buses at satellite yards, with the EXCEPTION being NON-urban yards, like Gordon(#228), Middleton(#227), Woodbridge(#231), Cygnet(#230) & Opossum Bay. There is also one @ Wynyard in the NW, which I think may be #205

[yoda]

There is also one @ Wynyard in the NW, which I think may be #205

It was #620, and that was replaced by #636. May have changed again since.

[ScaniaL94UB]

That's funny, because today I spotted #230 doing an X7 and #231 doing a 42.

[1whoknows]

Maybe you don't understand Metro rostering. Generally speaking a bus does not stay on one route all the time but rather they interwork.

A made up example:

Bus comes in from Woodbridge in the AM peak then goes up to Bridgewater and back then up to Fern Tree and back for first half of shift.

Second half of shift involves out to Lauderdale and back then West Hobart, Mornington and finally city back to Woodbridge.

The main excpetions would be the 14.5 metre buses which are on the northern corridor only.

[Tas Bus Nut]

That's funny, because today I spotted #230 doing an X7 and #231 doing a 42.

Very strange. May have been required @ Springfield for service this weekend, or could have broken down late Friday arvo.

Maybe you don't understand Metro rostering. Generally speaking a bus does not stay on one route all the time but rather they interwork.

A made up example:

Bus comes in from Woodbridge in the AM peak then goes up to Bridgewater and back then up to Fern Tree and back for first half of shift.

Second half of shift involves out to Lauderdale and back then West Hobart, Mornington and finally city back to Woodbridge.

The main excpetions would be the 14.5 metre buses which are on the northern corridor only.

Close 1whoknows. The 14.5s are getting used quite a bit on the Eastern Shore nowdays, as well as Kingston/Blackmans Bay on occassions BUT, as for the WEEKDAY rostering of NON-urban buses, that's about right.

[ScaniaL94UB]

Tas Bus Nut we usally get the 12.5s (Low-Floor NCBC & Customs) down at Kingston & Blackmans Bay. In fact I caught the 84 (#238) From Maranoa Heights to Hobart City and then an X7 to Gagebrook but got off at Metro Springfield. and then the 662 to my mates house (#219) + spotted the City Hotels Shuttle AIRPORTER in Hobart today.

[Tas Bus Nut]

Yeh, as mentioned previously, nearly ALL duties on Saturday are operated by 12.5s (low-floor) and ALL services on Sundays. There are a few exceptions on a Saturday, but as more 12.5s arrive, this will change so ALL services on weekends will be wheelchair accessible. I (for instance) today did a Rte.61 > City, Rte.53 + Rte.52 then after lunch 2 x Rte.42s ALL with #317. Normally, only 3 ordinary rigid buses are used of a Saturday.

[ScaniaL94UB]

Yes I got off the bus (#238 in Hobart, then I watched it drive off down to Macquarie Street layover, and have lunch and a smoke. Then it came up Elizabeth St Mall and was about to do a 625 to Rokeby so the buses get around aye?, speaking of that 1 hour later it was back in town doing a 53 to Sandy Bay.

[ScaniaL94UB]

Tas Bus Nut, you wouldn't of happened to be driving #328 going through Summerleas Road (Rt. 61) would you?

[Tas Bus Nut]

Tas Bus Nut, you wouldn't of happened to be driving #328 going through Summerleas Road (Rt. 61) would you?

Nah. As I said above, I was driving #317, and BTW, Rte.62 goes through Summerleas, NOT Rte.61

[ScaniaL94UB]

Oh yes, I passed #317 in Kingston and #328.

[ScaniaL94UB]

Speaking of all services on the weekend, being WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE no, I got on #147 on Saturday.

[Tas Bus Nut]

Speaking of all services on the weekend, being WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE no, I got on #147 on Saturday.

ALL services SUNDAY are wheelchair accessible. 2-3 normal buses are used SATURDAY, BUT when more new low-floors buses ae delivered, THEN ALL Saturday services will be fully accessible. If you saw #317 in Kingston, it must have been late in the afternoon after I'd knocked off @ 1:40pm, because I didn't have it down there.