Considering how packed these services are these days at UNSW, how can they ensure social distancing is possible? If social distancing is not possible, if one person has Coronavirus, then it will risk the entire NSW into Stage 4 lockdown, especially when we are facing the more contagious UK strain. I...

The face mask mandate only applies to Central Coast, Blue Mountains and Wollongong areas. So I wonder from which station on the South Coast Line and Central Coast and Newcastle Line will this mask mandate does not apply, as they would have been outside of Central Coast (i.e. in Hunter) and in South ...

Caught the tram to and from Randwick and wow, this thing was absolutely packed. With, you guessed, UNSW students. The travel time was also commendable. 17 minutes from Central to Randwick. I wouldn’t agree with Mayor Laxale’s very recent comment of “the slowest tram in the world” - its actually via...

I wonder whether STA and TSA can investigate whether they can update their rear desto font on newer buses, so that when the bus is running an express service, like 180X or 461X, the font of the bus route can fill the desto better? I believe Hillsbus has done a good job on 610X etc, and other bus ope...

The death of metrobus is simply an act of bastardry by the current NSW government. Yet Metrobus is also a political stunt caused by the previous Labor government due to their mismanagement of bus services across Sydney. If the current government can come out with solution that maintains the service...

I wonder as Summer is ending in a month, will these services remain or it will revert back to pre-December frequencies?

It seems Transit Systems has printed and delivered some branded face masks yo its drivers.

I hope I can get one if they do decide to give away as a merchandise.

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HHH wrote: ↑Tue Jan 05, 2021 8:29 pm More CDC buses have arrived to Region 6 Tempe, about 10 are from Hunter Valley Buses.

What are the numbers and type of these buses?
I wonder with Metro is now fully operational in the Hills District, whether more buses will be transferred out of CDC into other regions?

Perhaps this should be the last STA Observations thread as STA is due to be privatised by the end of the year?
Perhaps we should discuss what observations thread is required for buses going forward.

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https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/node/11049 for 7, 8 and 9 is the latest I have heard - - nothing on the four in the previous post as all the work being done is on the STA regions at the moment. I just hope Transdev will never win more bus contracts in Sydney, preferably Transit Systems, as they ar...

I wonder do contact tracers have access to Opal Card checking so that they can understand what time patients went on a particular train/bus whilst infectous?

What if someone commits fare evasion? How can they trace in this regard?

Jurassic_Joke wrote: ↑Thu Dec 24, 2020 7:14 pm Does anyone remember last years Boxing Day when they shut the line between Town Hall and CQ due to expected crowds? Looks like they aren’t doing that for this years Boxing Day, interesting.

Perhaps due to reduction of crowds in the city due to outbreak of Coronavirus?

boronia wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:53 pm Are there still lights to control vehicles/pedestrians at the left turn?

Nope. It has been replaced by priority pedestrian crossings.

As the state borders reopen, can someone able to tell me whether Indian Pacific has commenced operations to Perth already or need to wait until 2021?

I am highly concerned that the discontinuation of routes like 515 and 518 will make passengers from the popular Chinese suburbs such as Eastwood and Macquarie University suffer as there will be no direct city service for them. This shows once again that the Liberal government is bullying Eastwood re...

I doubt we'll see "protests / riots" because of masks being made compulsory, England and United states residents have no problems wearing them and really the only people chucking the grumps over being forced to use masks are your conspiracy theorists / anti mask wearers. I use mine when going into ...

Both lines have been fully closed this week for trackwork from 19:30. I watched the tail off of service last night and there was a lot of strange empty running, like multiple sets departing the city empty after the buses had begun and even empty sets arriving Central from the east to shunt. I could...

I wonder whether the new intercity fleet will be able to travel beyond 115km/h? With Northconnex, Westconnex and M6 Motorway, intercity trains will become much less attractive as it is much faster to drive than catching the train. If our train is not speeding up, then in the long term we are going t...

I drove on Parra Road today during peak as well as being in the city at lunch time, I observed that 438X and 461X has pretty low patronage, yet they appear to be more frequent than 440. I also observed there are some double up of 438X and 461X, possibly due to Covid or traffic. I wonder how the Vict...

HHH wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 11:52 am This weekend some Scania buses at Kingsgrove are moving to Leichhardt which will be very squashy unless some buses at Leichhardt are moved elsewhere.

As M10 cease to exist, the artics at L can move to K until route 100 is launched and transfer over to STA Region 8?

It seems that the promotion of Northconnex has been ramped up on Facebook lately, which I am hoping Northconnex will be able to commence operations by the end of October/early November. With that in mind, I wonder whether any CCN Railbus will operate on Northconnex instead of Pacific Highway which w...

20 years before, everyone flock to Sydney to see the Olympics.
20 years after, no one can leave Sydney at all due to travel ban.
I hope COVID can end soon so that we can watch Olympics live again.

I hope M6 will commence constructions soon and once it is complete, going to Wollongong from Sydney by car will be a lot faster than train. Currently Wollongong to Central is 70 minutes by car, potentially can cut to 50 - 55 minutes, which makes living in Wollongong a lot more attractive than in Wes...

The biggest loser for these changes: - Annandale - Glebe - Camperdown No cuts to 431 on weekends, especially the Government should not cut 431 on Saturdays to every 12 minutes when Glebe market is set to return in a few weeks' time! Also as 438X and 461X does not stop at Arundel Street/University of...

I wonder if the G: goes to Tweed and we need to close the border due to pandamic, how will services be look like by then?