TA3001 wrote:According to the realtime info, several services have been running 20+ minutes late this afternoon/evening. Even a service departing West Lakes in the next 20 minutes is showing up as being 38 minutes late.
Would there be a reason behind this? Although, most services seem to be back on time.
Several rail crossings had boom gates stuck down in the extreme heat which heavily delayed some bus services.
Some train and tram services were cancelled in the afternoon and some services were running 30+ minutes late. All modes of transport are usually affected in such extreme heat.
Big difference between ageing high floor buses and fairly modern Scanias.
Morphettville put their O-Bahn rigids out at the weekend on non-O-Bahn routes so I don't see why Port Depot should be any different!
TA3001 wrote:The myStops app is still showing 333s as being scheduled to operate today. Are there plans to update it to reflect the timetable changes?
Has not been updated since 12th January,I have sent an email asking if he could update--so far no reply! Fingers crossed.
No 150-157/140-147,170-178,W90-91,OBahn (excluding 110-502,M44.
jibb wrote:Big difference between ageing high floor buses and fairly modern Scanias.
Morphettville put their O-Bahn rigids out at the weekend on non-O-Bahn routes so I don't see why Port Depot should be any different!
Port Depot is an all diesel fleet whereas Morphettville has a high number of gas buses, so O-Bahn buses are more likely to be used to make up diesel requirements on a weekend than Port Depot.
It may also be driver familiarity - perhaps O-Bahn buses on non O-Bahn work are driven by drivers with O-Bahn permits and who know how to drive them without damaging guidewheels, whereas not so many drivers would have O-Bahn permits at Port Depot.
What is happening with green/yellow striped Bustech electric buses:
1. One has been parked along side the fence at Mile End depot for a long time.
2. How many were built?
3. Where are the others.
Looks like another total waste of money by the previous SA State Government - what an incompetent bunch they were and Tom Couts (the complete idiot) is still around.
WE certainly are lucky in SA having such quality leadership - NOT!!!!
Tim-2 were built over 18 months ago(launched 26th June 2017 after receiving a $2 million grant from the then SA Government),as you said 1 is sitting at Mile End,the other is at Precision Buses(ZF Lemforder) at Edinburgh . Apparently there have been many problems,and so far they have yet to be resolved.
The now opposition have not said a word since they were first manufactured(does that not surprise you?).
Interesting my comment last week questioning why Port Depot is not using any of its 19 Scania OBahn rigids at night--with the new weekday rosters that commenced yesterday TT have started using them at night!
Port is using their Obahn buses weeknights because there’s now some intermediate shifts from there involving some track work. Two extra track buses at Port, 1824 and 1825, to cope with the extra track work now rostered from there.
Noticed at Morphettville Depot this afternoon that a number of "retired 1700 Midis" have been removed from the TSA yard at the rear of the Depot and placed on the tracks? Would be interested to know why?
jibb wrote:Noticed at Morphettville Depot this afternoon that a number of "retired 1700 Midis" have been removed from the TSA yard at the rear of the Depot and placed on the tracks? Would be interested to know why?
Soon to be used on Gawler Rail Subs.
BUSWAY EQUIPPED:
PLEASE CHECK GUIDEWHEELS
BEFORE DEPARTURE.
There’s at least a dozen of those Midis on track at Morphettville. Midis a bit small to use as substitutes for trains: perhaps they’ll be used on regular work to release larger buses for rail subs?
