I have listed the new route numbers in order here:
Southern Suburbs 407 Blackmans Bay via Kingston Beach and Outlet
408 Blackmans Bay via Maranoa Heights and Outlet
409 Blackmans Bay South [Suncoast Drive and Auburn Road]
Channel Services 411 Howden via Blackmans Bay
412 Margate
413 Snug
415 Woodbridge
416 Middleton
417 Gordon
418 Cygnet
Southern Suburbs 427 Blackmans Bay via Kingston Beach and Taroona
428 Blackmans Bay via Maranoa Heights and Taroona
429 Kingston, Huntingfield and Summerleas
437 Taroona
438 Lower Sandy Bay via Sandy Bay Road
439 Lower Sandy Bay via Churchill Avenue
439 University to City
446, 447 South Hobart via Cascades Road
448 Fern Tree via Huon Road
449 Fern Tree via Cascades Road
457, X57 Mt Nelson plus X57 via Tolmans Hill to Mt Nelson
Northern Suburbs 500 Blackmans Bay to Glenorchy via Outlet
501 Glenorchy - University
502 Glenorchy
503 Tolosa Park
504 Jackson St Glenorchy
510, X10 Abbotsfield, Austins Ferry
511, 512, X11 Chigwell, Claremont
513 Rosetta
520, 522, X20, X21 Bridgewater via Claremont
521, X21 Brighton - Glenorchy
530, X30 Bridgewater via Old Beach - Glenorchy
540 West Hobart and Mt Stuart
541 West New Town, Florence Heights
542, X42 West Moonah - Glenorchy Local
550, 551, X50 Lenah Valley and Glenorchy via Augusta Road
552 Lenah Valley via Girrabong Road
553 Lenah Valley via Pottery Road and Ruth Drive
560, 561 Goodwood, Lutana
562 Lutana, Moonah
Eastern Shore 601 Rosny Park and Shoreline to University via City
605 Shoreline Central to Glenorchy via Shoreline, Rosny Park and Newtown
606 Shoreline Central via Waverly St
614 Bellerive Bluff
615, 616, X15, X16 Camelot Park
616, X16 Howrah Heights
624, 625 Rokeby and Clarendon Vale
634, 635, X34 Lauderdale and Oakdowns
South Arm Services 644, X44 Opossum Bay via Rifle Range Road
645, X45 Clifton Beach and Cremorne
646 Opossum Bay via South Arm Road
Eastern Shore 654 Mornington Heights via Mornington
655 Mornington Heights via Warrane
664, 665, X64 Seven Mile Beach via Cambridge
676 Montagu Bay and Rosny Park
684 Geilston Bay via Lindisfarne to Rosny Park
685 Geilston Bay via Lindisfarne via Rose Bay
694 Glenorchy - Rosny Park via Risdon Vale
695 Risdon Vale via Rose Bay
696 Bridgewater to Rosny Park via Risdon Vale
All numbered Tassielink services are in the 7xx series.
Does this all suggest a bigger picture, thinking in an anticlockwise methodology:
100 series - East of the Tamar River, including Launceston through to the East Coast OR.....East Coast
200 series - West of the Tamar River, north of mountain areas OR.....Central North [Launceston and Devonport]
300 series - West Coast [Strahan Zeehan] OR.....North West [Burnie] and West Coast.
The Hobart changes are [to me] a very practical solution to a currently messy anddisconnected service. Certainly people will be upset that "
their" bus is gone. Comments in the Mercury already say that there is insuffient details, such as tmetables for each route, so it is hard to make a valid comparison with true data. If a frequent/regular service is within walking distance, the choice may be better.
New Zealand is doing the same [which does not necessaruly make it better!!]. However, the results seem promising.
Christchurch Metro have revamped post earthquake as the travel patterns have changed. I sat in the city for a couple of hours near the new bus exchange [prior to the totally newly constructed one which just opened] and the frequency of the 4 high frequency main lines [Purple / Blue / Orange / Yellow] plus 5 supporting radial lines which infil between the coloured high frequency lines was a bus observers delight. As one or two passed, others came into view.
Dunedin has just launched its first revamped services, providing a 30 minute frequency to Mosgiel [using the motorway] with a Super Stop at Green Island for Brighton / Abbotsford local connections; and added late night [Friday and Saturday] & a new Sunday services for Abbotsford]. The only dissention has come from travellers wanting to go to the South Dunedin area where the old service travelled on local streets. The higher frequency is a trade off for the change to the connecting service.
The entire
Auckland network is being revamped in the same way. Auckland Transport has a very good process of changes over a number of areas - the presentation of the plans, consultation, reworking, republication, and implementation. Three levels of service are offered: Frequent [15 minute frequency], Connector [30 minute frequency] and Local [60 minute frequency] plus peak period services.
A recent announcement of a new service in Algies Bay [part of the Hibiscus Coast changes] had concerns about buses along the waterfront amidst pedestrians and cars and general traffic problems. The researchers then contacted everyone who provided an Algies Bay address to determine their specific concerns and came up with an alternative to suit most people.
Another part of the changes is to extend the Northern Express high frequency [busway using] service from Albany onto Silverdale every 30 minutes. The current city service from Waiwera via Orewa continued on a local old highway through Dairy Flat [taking much longer than the newly planned Motorway service]. The revamped network determined that this service would cease during daytime hours [peak only service] as there was insufficient patronage. Following consultation, the service will remain at a 2 hourly frequency, so a compromise has been reached. The link is:
https://at.govt.nz/projects-roadworks/n ... t-network/I will be following the progress of the Hobart [and maybe all of Tasmania changes] on this site and in the Mercury. Hopefully, Metro Tasmania provides meaningful consultation and will be able to vary its plans if worthwhile suggestions are offered.