By operator

Ventura has the most of articulated buses in Melbourne, with 25 in their fleet – some used on school runs in the outer eastern and south-eastern suburbs.

Photo by Thomas Hobley, via Wikimedia Commons

And others out of Frankston on routes along the Mornington Peninsula.

CDC Melbourne has six articulated buses scattered across their depots, mostly for school and charter work, along with one for the route 601 Monash University shuttle.

Sunbury Bus Service has three articulated buses – two for route service, the other for charter work.

Kinetic also has six articulated buses used on routes from Doncaster to the Melbourne CBD – two older buses in the silver ‘SmartBus’ livery.

And four newer ones in PTV livery.

And a ring in

SkyBus Melbourne was once a big operator of articulated buses on the Southern Cross Station – Melbourne Airport run.

But since the 2015 introduction of double deck buses, they’ve been bumped down to other services or moved interstate.

Footnote: articulated buses interstate

Sydney is a big user of articulated buses, despite their network working alongside a busy rail system.

Canberra is another big bus city, so ACTION has a number of articulated buses.

Adelaide runs both standard and articulated buses along their oddball O-Bahn Busway.

And Brisbane City Council is a massive bus operator competing against the Queensland Government owned Queensland Rail, deploying articulated buses to their network of parallel busways.

Photo by EamonM25, via Wikimedia Commons

Footnote: double deck buses in Melbourne

Articulated buses aren’t the only oddball vehicles on Melbourne’s bus routes – there is also an even smaller handful of double deck buses.

Sources

The ‘Australian Bus Fleet Lists’ website lists the details of virtually every bus and coach operating on Australia’s roads – here are the gory details for the buses I’ve listed above:

• Ventura Group
• CDC Melbourne
• Kinetic Melbourne
• Sunbury Bus Service
• SkyBus Melbourne

You can find the articulated on those pages by searching for the ‘AB’ (Articulated bus with standard seating) seating code.

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