Comments on: Last refuge of Melbourne’s high floor buses

By: Photos from ten years ago: October 2014 - Waking up in Geelong

Photos from ten years ago: October 2014 - Waking up in Geelong — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:33:04 +0000

[…] decade ago Sita was still running clapped out high floor buses on services around Sunshine, complete with paper destination signs as they didn’t want spend […]

By: Photos from ten years ago: January 2014 - Waking up in Geelong

Photos from ten years ago: January 2014 - Waking up in Geelong — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 20:32:22 +0000

[…] still running, but on some weekends passengers were put onto rail replacement buses – with ageing high-floor clunkers without air conditioning still in […]

By: Photos from ten years ago: January 2013 - Waking up in Geelong

Photos from ten years ago: January 2013 - Waking up in Geelong — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:44:40 +0000

[…] decade ago high floor buses still popped up on bus routes across […]

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:02:45 +0000

In reply to Aussie. I don't see how a single door bus with luggage bins would be useful on short inner suburban runs that Sita ran - Martyrs was a completely different operation running services in rural areas on the very edge of Melbourne.

By: Aussie

Aussie — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 07:29:37 +0000

Sita should have headed in the direction or martyrs perchase accessible high floors between 2000 and 2004 martyrs perchased buses 17,22,23 and 35 a B7R with a volgren CR221 body they were a single enterance high floor with storage bins for bikes and a small square one under the emergency exit door located at the wheel chair spots the driver would lower the bus a few inches as its air bags were only designed to line up the ramp with the door he would then switch off the exit door alarm go over lift up the seats go out side open the door lift up the bin door pull out the ramp shut the bindoor line up the ramp and wolla then put it back close the door hop in and drive off in this photo https://www.flickr.com/photos/comeng301m/15739621796 of 22 you can see the 2 main bin doors for bikes prams ETC and the exit door with a small square ramp under it for the ramp

By: Upgrading Melbourne's railway network in the 1970s - Waking up in Geelong

Upgrading Melbourne's railway network in the 1970s - Waking up in Geelong — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 20:32:57 +0000

[…] the story isn’t any different today – some Melbourne bus operators kept buying high floor buses despite the availability of accessible low floor models, and today we’re still buying old […]

By: All aboard the train replacement accessible taxi - Waking up in Geelong

All aboard the train replacement accessible taxi - Waking up in Geelong — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 21:32:07 +0000

[…] inaccessible high floor buses are becoming a thing of the past – on paper the bulk of buses are now accessible to passengers using wheelchairs or mobility […]

By: Missed opportunities and Melbourne's new hybrid buses - Waking up in Geelong

Missed opportunities and Melbourne's new hybrid buses - Waking up in Geelong — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 22:18:36 +0000

[…] in the late-1990s some bus operators delayed the introduction of ‘new fangled’ low floor buses to their fleets. Twenty years on, we’re still feeling the impact of this decision, as […]

By: Photos from ten years ago: July 2009 - Waking up in Geelong

Photos from ten years ago: July 2009 - Waking up in Geelong — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 21:32:11 +0000

[…] Note the lack of low floor buses – you can blame Sita Buslines for that. […]

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:27:09 +0000

In reply to Bus fan.

I’m guessing this was due to the ‘one bus per driver’ policy Sita used to have, where staff used the same vehicle no matter what shift they were working.

The outcome of this was whenever a driver who had a high floor vehicle as their ‘bus’ vehicle was working, passengers would be stuck with a high floor bus, even if there were spare low floor buses sitting in the depot.