Christmas & New Year Timetables 2016-2017

[Craig]

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Craig

[Craig]

Travelling with V/Line this festive season
Published: Mon 12 Dec 2016

V/Line News
12 Dec - 5 Jan 2017

V/Line is helping you get where you need to go this festive season.

Travel will be free on Christmas Day, after 6pm on New Year’s Eve and on the first service on New Year’s Day.

Services will operate to an altered timetable so please check the Plan a Journey tool before you travel.

Saturday 24 December – Christmas Eve
V/Line trains and coaches will operate to a normal Saturday timetable.

Sunday 25 December – Christmas Day
V/Line trains and coaches will operate to an altered timetable.
Travel on all public transport across Victoria will be free.

Free travel on Christmas Day is very popular so please book reserved services in advance and travel early in the day on unreserved services.

Monday 26 December – Boxing Day
V/Line trains and coaches will operate to an altered timetable.

Tuesday 27 December – Christmas Day additional public holiday
V/Line trains and coaches will operate to an altered timetable.

Saturday 31 December – New Year’s Eve
V/Line trains and coaches will operate to a Saturday timetable.

Free travel will be available on all public transport across Victoria after 6pm. Free travel is also available on long distance trains and coaches which arrive at Southern Cross Station after 6pm on New Year’s Eve.

Sunday 1 January 2015 – New Year’s Day
V/Line trains and coaches will operate to an altered timetable.
Travel will be free on the first timetabled service on New Year’s Day.

Monday 2 January 2015 – New Year’s Day public holiday
V/Line trains and coaches will operate to an altered timetable.

Please plan ahead for your journey. For more information and to check times, please use the plan a journey tool on the website homepage, call 1800 800 007 or speak to a V/Line team member.

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Craig

[Craig]

Christmas & New Years Day Holiday Services 2016 - 2017

Below describes the services McHarry's will be operating over the Christmas & New Year period.

Christmas Eve - Saturday 24 December
Normal Saturday services operate on all Geelong and Bellarine services. This includes McHarry's V/Line - Geelong to Apollo Bay via Great Ocean Road which will operate a Summer Saturday service.

Christmas Day - Sunday 25 December
Normal Sunday services operate on all Geelong and Bellarine services.
McHarry's will operate a Sunday timetable (not including the extra summer trips) on the V/Line - Geelong to Apollo Bay via Great Ocean Road service.
On Christmas Day, fares are not required. If you do touch on, myki will not deduct your fare.

Monday 26 December - Boxing Day Holiday
Normal Saturday services operate on all Geelong and Bellarine services.
McHarry's will operate to a Saturday Summer timetable on its V/Line - Geelong to Apollo Bay via Great Ocean Road service.

Tuesday 27 December - Christmas Day Holiday
Normal Saturday services operate on all Geelong and Bellarine services.
V/Line - Geelong to Apollo Bay via Great Ocean Road service will operate to a Saturday summer timetable.

Wednesday 28 December
Normal weekday services operate on all Geelong and Bellarine services.
V/Line - Geelong to Apollo Bay via Great Ocean Road service will operate to a weekday summer timetable.

Thursday 29 December
Normal weekday services operate on all Geelong and Bellarine services.
V/Line - Geelong to Apollo Bay via Great Ocean Road service will operate to a weekday summer timetable.

Friday 30 December
Normal weekday services operate on all Geelong and Bellarine services.
V/Line - Geelong to Apollo Bay via Great Ocean Road service will operate to a weekday summer timetable.

New Year's Eve - Saturday 31 December
Normal Saturday services operate on all Geelong and Bellarine services.
McHarry's will operate to a Saturday Summer timetable on its V/Line - Geelong to Apollo Bay via Great Ocean Road service.
From 6pm, fares are not required. If you do touch on, myki will not deduct your fare.

New Year's Day - Sunday 1 January
Normal Sunday services operate on all Geelong and Bellarine services.
V/Line - Geelong to Apollo Bay via Great Ocean Road service will operate to a Sunday Summer timetable.
New fares commence on this day.

Monday 2 January - New Years Day Holiday
Normal Saturday services operate on all Geelong and Bellarine services.
V/Line - Geelong to Apollo Bay via Great Ocean Road service will operate to a Saturday Summer timetable.

Kind Regards


Craig

[Craig]

Transdev information for Christmas. No info regarding NYE yet.

Christmas timetable information:

Saturday 24 December 2016
Christmas Eve
Normal Saturday timetable including Night Network Night bus

Sunday 25 December 2016
Christmas Day
Normal Sunday timetable

Monday 26 December 2016
Boxing Day
Saturday timetable but no Night Network Night bus

Tuesday 27 December 2016
(in lieu Christmas Day)
Saturday timetable but no Night Network Night bus

Kind Regards


Craig

[Craig]

Some summer holiday bus timetables have now appeared on the PTV website for the following routes:

Dysons
301 (Reservoir - LaTrobe Uni) - 19/11/2016 until further notice - no service after conclusion of Semester 2 - https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/route/view/10952/

Sita
401 (North Melbourne - Melb Uni) - 24/10/2016 to 26/02/2017 - reduced weekday - https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/route/view/1657/
403 (Footscray - Melb Uni) continues as normal

Kastoria
475 (Moonee Ponds - East Keilor) - 28/12/2016 to 15/1/2017 - reduced weekday - https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/route/view/827/
501 (Moonee Ponds - Niddrie) - 28/12/2016 to 15/1/2017 - reduced weekday - https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/route/view/841/

Moonee Valley
503 (Essendon - East Brunswick) - 28/12/2016 to 13/1/2017 - reduced weekday - https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/route/view/842/
506 (Moonee Ponds - Westgarth) - 28/12/2016 to 13/1/2017 - reduced weekday - https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/route/view/844/

CDCM Oakleigh
601 (Huntingdale - Monash Uni (Clayton campus)) - 27/12/2016 to 17/2/2017 - reduced weekday - https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/route/view/5627/
605 (City - Gardenvale) - 26/12/2016 to 22/1/2017 - reduced weekday - https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/route/view/3048/

Ventura
201 (Box Hill - Deakin Uni) - 24/12/2016 to 7/1/2017 - no service due to Trimester 3 break over Xmas - https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/route/view/10864/'
733 (Box Hill - Oakleigh via Monash Uni) - 28/12/2016 to 22/1/2017 - reduced weekday - https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/route/view/949/
768 (Box Hill - Deakin Uni) - 21/10/2016 until further notice - no service after conclusion of Trimester 2
788 (Frankston - Portsea) - 26/12/2016 to 29/1/2017 - enhanced weekend & public holiday - https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/route/view/982/
887 (Rosebud - Monash Uni (Peninsula campus) - 19/11/2016 until further notice - no service after conclusion of Semester 2 - https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/route/view/10961/

Meanwhile, New Year's Eve timetable information for Transdev has now been published. The following routes will operate a more frequent evening service before midnight followed by an extended timetable until about 2am:
234 (Queen Victoria Market - Garden City)
250 (City - LaTrobe Uni)
905 (City - The Pines)
906 (City - Warrandyte Bridge)
907 (City - Mitcham)
908 (City - The Pines) - services extended to the CBD from 18:30 inbound & 20:45 outbound.
This is the first time 234 & 250 will operate an extended timetable, while DART passengers will have to rely on Night Bus 961 or 966 after 2am - in the last few years there was effectively a continuous overnight service on the DART routes.

Kind Regards


Craig

[Heihachi_73]

As usual, Ventura says Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Mooroolbark by not operating a single bus.

[Craig]

Great job by the keen staff at Frankston Station who have printed off the various holiday timetables and handing them out to customers (they don't seem to have the new print-on-demand stock in yet)

Yesterday I was given 5 different stapled print-outs on asking for a current 788 timetable:
- One up until 25/12/2016
- One covering 26/12/2016 to 31/12/2016
- One for New Years Day 1/1/2017
- One covering 2/7/2017 to 29/1/2017
- and lastly one for 30/1/2017 onwards


Kind Regards


Craig

[burrumbus]

As usual, Ventura says Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Mooroolbark by not operating a single bus.

Just remember Ventura or any of the Metro operators set the days to be operated.PTV are responsible for funding that.

[1whoknows]

Whilst most of the changes posted above by Craig make sense - uni shuttles and short workings etc, it does seem a little backward that the regular Kastoria and Moonee Valley routes still have reduced services.

[Craig]

Whilst most of the changes posted above by Craig make sense - uni shuttles and short workings etc, it does seem a little backward that the regular Kastoria and Moonee Valley routes still have reduced services.

733's peak frequency along Middleborough Rd / Stephensons Rd drops from 15 mins to 30 mins over summer which is a little severe, especially considering the 630 from Elwood to Monash Uni retains its usual 12 min peak headway and there are still passengers using the route to reach Box Hill or connect with trains.

Just like the two dozen or so Saturday routes in Melbourne that still don't run on public holidays, the gradual approach to eliminating summer holiday timetables over the past decade (largely since the minimum standards rollout began) has left us with a few oddities that still need to be addressed.

Kind Regards


Craig

[MAN 16.242]

Whilst most of the changes posted above by Craig make sense - uni shuttles and short workings etc, it does seem a little backward that the regular Kastoria and Moonee Valley routes still have reduced services.

and in case of Moonee Valley reduce run times in AM peak too! Which are tighter than interpeak run times with end result being buses late in AM peak during Holiday results in gaps of over 30 minutes compared to 12-15 minutes during the normal timetable.

Hopefully one day the remaining holiday timetables can be scrapped. We've come a long way from 10 or so years ago when following operators had Holiday Timetables. Broadmedows, Dysons (513 & 517), East West Bus Company, Eastrans(605), Hope St Bus Lines, Ivanhoe, Kastoria, Melbourne Bus Link, Moreland, Moonee Valley, National Bus, Northern Bus Lines, Reservoir Bus Service, Ryans, Tullamarine Bus Lines, Ventura(selected routes)

Many of the past Summer Holiday Timetables made little sense with cuts to interpeak, off peak and night services in some cases by 50%. While in case of 2 operators as well as weekday summer holiday timetable there was also Saturday holiday timetables! As well as not to mention any run time issues with holiday timetables that at best only reflected first week but not remaining 1-3 weeks.

[krustyklo]

Many of the past Summer Holiday Timetables made little sense with cuts to interpeak, off peak and night services in some cases by 50%. While in case of 2 operators as well as weekday summer holiday timetable there was also Saturday holiday timetables! As well as not to mention any run time issues with holiday timetables that at best only reflected first week but not remaining 1-3 weeks.

Agreed, in many cases it made little sense. You could certainly argue the case for thinning slightly a frequent service (eg, running a 10 minute frequency at 12 minutes and reducing run times slightly), but in the case of the East West 560 cutting the 25-30 minute peak hour frequency to every 45 minutes in summer was ludicrous. Especially when once it was absorbed into the 902 the following summer had a bus every 15 minutes along the same route!
Having said that, it seems we go from famine to feast. The orbitals for example waste a lot of time now sitting at time points post the Christmas sales until mid January. There would certainly be a case for graduated summer timetables maintaining the same frequency but shortening run times to avoid spending 5 minutes sitting at Reynolds Rd or Shoppingtown, or both! Especially now there is reasonably reliable realtime info, and a significant number of orbital users would be used to checking realtime info anyway now given the poor peak hour reliability.