Comments on: Articulated buses of Melbourne https://wongm.com/2023/10/articulated-buses-of-melbourne/ Marcus Wong. Gunzel. Engineering geek. History nerd. Sat, 05 Oct 2024 01:10:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2023/10/articulated-buses-of-melbourne/#comment-896395 Sun, 12 Nov 2023 12:10:00 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21511#comment-896395 In reply to Heihachi_73.

They would have been the Volvo B10ML buses with Fuji bodies imported from Japan after the Tsukaba Expo in 1984.

https://www.busaustralia.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=41&page=1

]]> By: Heihachi_73 https://wongm.com/2023/10/articulated-buses-of-melbourne/#comment-896267 Sat, 11 Nov 2023 17:39:21 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21511#comment-896267 Fun fact, route 670 was running articulated buses even 30 years ago. IIRC they were originally painted in The Met green and yellow but eventually ended up in Invicta’s beige and vanished into thin air roughly when the “LoRider” buses started appearing.

]]> By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2023/10/articulated-buses-of-melbourne/#comment-892405 Tue, 17 Oct 2023 23:13:54 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21511#comment-892405 In reply to Andrew Cee.

Articulated buses used to be common on the ‘Metrobus’ services:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrobus_(Sydney)

Based on this a few years ago Sydney switched to buying double deck buses rather than articulated ones:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-13/nsw-budget-includes-tweed-hospital-bus-boost-and-roads-planning/8612746

More recent changes have seen the creation of the B-Line service to the Northern Beaches with double deck buses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-Line_(Sydney)

And reworking the eastern suburb routes following the opening of the light rail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBD_and_South_East_Light_Rail

]]> By: Andrew Cee https://wongm.com/2023/10/articulated-buses-of-melbourne/#comment-892329 Tue, 17 Oct 2023 02:12:45 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21511#comment-892329 The only city and eastern suburban Sydney articulated buses I noticed last week were used on 333 to Bondi Beach, and they are showing their age badly.

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