neilrex wrote:if you live at Banksia you wouldn't even be able to access minor services such as a bank, supermarket or pharmacy within 30 minutes.

You can walk to Rockdale in half that. (There's also route 400 (& 410?), though you'd want online access to check real-life times.)

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You'd have to dig up some of the owners - hydraulic power comes to mind as an obsolete utility.

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boronia wrote:Will cyclists also be banned from bus lanes at this time?

Not as far as I know. Booting the HC-plated hire cars just seems to be one of the ride-share consequences, as hire cars are now little more than ubers.

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Once they lose access to bus lanes in 2020 there'll be no difference anyway.

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mk2n75 wrote:Scania and five MANs going

Are they going strictly by age or something? I would have thought they'd be most eager to get rid of the (non-ac) ex-N&W Volvos first.

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neilrex wrote:Is Wednesday the 30th ??

It was that year.

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boronia wrote:Hire-car operators, who pay big money for their plates

I had the idea point to point has ended that, with no new Hire Car-specific plates for about the last year or so? (and cars with those plates being booted from bus lanes in mid-2020).

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It seems to me obvious that some of these situations where extra buses are needed to be fed in at short notice (but can't be because of the system) wouldn't arise if more people could get on the existing buses. But that (of itself) is just delaying the problem until patronage grows in proportion to...

I've seen nearly every time some person for the Airport boards a Eastgardens only 400 without looking or asking. And? As long as they use the same stop at Eastgardens, and the short-runner isn't overtaken by the one going further, there's no problem. In fact it reduces the load (as far as Eastgarde...

I wonder why they took so long to remove that shelter Probably poorly written contracts. I suspect the contracts are normally written with only the primary purpose in mind (advertising signs), with no provision for the secondary purpose (shelter at a bus stop). The stop can move wherever it wants, ...

LB608 wrote:3637 has been sold to NSW Police,being Government department maybe given
So the Police have now had Leyland Worldmasters,Leyland Leopards,Mercedes Benz and now Scania

Seems an odd choice - means they need access to CNG facilities (or an engine & fuel system replacement).

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via Broughton St and Charles St to then turn right onto Canterbury Rd without the assistance of traffic lights creating both a dangerous and time consuming situation. Also illegal. (Both Charles and the almost-opposite Close have NRT signs onto Canterbury, though they're often not facing the right ...

Just wondering - if Region 6 did lose the 400/410, what other routes could they actually use the 14.5m buses on? I've seen them trialled on L28 (inward), but I imagine they're a little unwieldy on outward routes using Castlereagh St, and on most cross-suburban routes in R6.

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With the takeover in July of STA inner west services by Transit Systems, what would be the fleet that they are taking over? Are they mostly volgrens or are there some others in there too? Looking at my spreadsheet, as of last week the only Volgrens were 48 artics (out of 150 of that type). Breaking...

The newest CRLs turn 20 this year. The (gas) CRBs are older, and the (14.5m) TRBs older again. The O405NHs are newer, but a few have gone recently, too. I think at the moment STA are simply getting rid of the particular vehicles they don't want.

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The 2.5m wide buses barely fit particularly in Sydney when lanes are incerdibly narrow including bus lanes. Barely? There are places where they don't fit at all. I've seen a bus in the narrow bit of Oxford St (near Victoria Barracks) with the left hand tyres in the gutter and the right hand side be...

Maybe some cut & paste going on with the report, as there would be other works which are because of longer trains.

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To maintain a service on the Airport Line the only access open to Central is Platform 23. With 8 trains normally tabled to travel in each direction on the Airport Line, it would be difficult to turn trains around on Platform 23 and maintain the Timetable. Don't 22 / 23 have crossovers (both ways) b...

How else would you do it in a hurry ?. Seems to be it was a sensible use of technology to get a quick result. With no response being counted as "No"? That is totally incompetent. (If it wasn't for the egg-on-face aspect for the union reps, I would suggest it's actually corrupt.) SMS is an utterly u...

So still a K series - I thought it'd be too much to hope for to have the N series tonyp has been suggesting they should get.

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Check that one carefully - my old map shows the northern 20 to 25km of Rylstone-Bylong as unsealed, as well as about 15 to 20km east of Bylong.

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Frosty wrote:I have feeling W prefers VSTM probably more reliable, better fuel consumption & drivers prefer it.

They're the only diesel rigids at W, so you may be right about preferences. (Must have been fun driving and refilling the gassies yesterday! )

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Can you explain what you mean by that? This route shown above is one way, if they allowed a right from Pitt into Rawson for buses only, it would only be needed for this direction Maybe I've just given up. :( [edit: clarification - on things being done well here] If the southern side of Rawson is in...

With existing turn restrictions? No.

The Railway ramp is left-in/left-out at both ends, the right turn from Pitt St to Eddy Av leaves no real opportunity to have an opposing right turn from Pitt St to Rawson Place, and I think Barlow St is currently closed at George St.

Don't tap off, leave station. Do what you need to go, see all you need to see. Come back a few hours later. Then tap off, change modes, receive your $2 discount and also reset the journey time completely. You can even do it to take a bus one stop from the train station, then walk back, tap back on ...