Today marks 60 years since the closure of the Botany and Coogee tram lines.

I noticed hidden away in the Inner West changes announcements, that some bus stops along Anzac Pde in Kensington and Kingsord that were closed for LR construction will be reopened on 25/10.

It would be convenient for NW Metro passengers to transfer to CQ or T4 trains without going all the way to Central?

But the "Pitt St" station will also have an entrance in Bathurst St.To pander to the "save the T3 line" ignorants who claim people will need to change at Sydenham or Central to get to Town Hall, why not call it "Town Hall Metro"? "Central Station" bus stops are spread from Railway Square around to F...

Newcastle Interchange and Shellharbour Junction are recent exceptions that come to mind.

DABOIKOOLKID wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 11:36 am Are there any school buses that are being axed? as there is a post on Facebook about "up to 20 school services being cancelled" but they don't seem to really know what they are talking about.

That is a common symptom with Facebook posters.

I looked today, there was a patched section about 1 metre square. But there is a much larger area marked out in multiple colours of spray paint right across the 4 lanes, so perhaps more work is planned?

The Sydney Bus Museum has a cabinet full of bus/truck badges for sale. Might be worth asking them.

I recall that Tuck Lee resurfaced in the late 90s or early 00s with a small coach charter business, can't remember the name now.

hornetfig wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:47 pm Sinking already?

I think so. There is a "hole" on the inbound side opposite Ascot St, starting to appear again.

They are numbered 01 to 60.

The actual fleet numbers within the LR fleets may be 2201 to 2260

FRom Wikipedia: Fleet Stage 1 will be operated by a fleet of thirteen Urbos 3 vehicles built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF). Urbos 3 vehicles are also already in operation on the Dulwich Hill Line (Inner West Light Rail). However, unlike the Dulwich Hill Line, the Urbos 3 vehicl...

In Sydney, it is 1:44 behind.

Two lanes of Anzac Pde southbound, adjacent to the Kensington LR stop were closed for most of the day yesterday with road crews in attendance.

TOs have been very active on the LR over the past couple of weeks. They have been on nearly every trip I have made during daytime, including weekends. They don't seem to have caught anyone.

https://transportnsw.info/news/2020/l3-kingsford-line-partial-closure Why does L3 turn back at Central instead of Moore Park? As we don't know what this refers to. I can only assume that a transfer from tram to bus at Moore Park is not really convenient, so it is better to put people onto buses at ...

"CRRC denied..."

Seems more like a Chinese company investigating itself?

When mentioning Queensland, I wasn't just thinking of Bustech, Volgren too, which had a facility in NSW but it was let go for lack of orders. Bustech is located close to the border, so there is a good chance that some of the employees live in NSW, and even some NSW businesses are supplying materials.

The current policy seems to be total abandonment of local sourcing. It perplexes me for example that they're so willing to buy large numbers of buses from Queensland, probably more than Queensland buys itself! No, the contracts to build buses are let via a competitive tendering system, with Bustech...

Not uncommon for individual cars in a set to be isolated.

But good that TripView is kept up to date.

15min frequencies to Campbelltown were only implemented 3 years ago, at the expense of cutting direct trains to Parramatta WAsn't there a period some years prior when they had 15 minute frequency (they did to Penrith I know), but this was cut back due to some operational problems? Whatever the prob...

Perhaps if he reads through the transportnsw.info web page, he would find answers to most of these questions, and more.

boxythingy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2020 1:46 pm 15min frequencies to Campbelltown were only implemented 3 years ago, at the expense of cutting direct trains to Parramatta

WAsn't there a period some years prior when they had 15 minute frequency (they did to Penrith I know), but this was cut back due to some operational problems?