Sydney Buses review of inner west and south

16 Oct 2009 in Urban affairs by Enoch Lau | 3 comments

Sydney Buses is conducting a review of the bus routes in the “inner west and south” – a fairly expansive region including Parramatta Road and City Road services, and affecting services all the way to Lidcombe, Hurstville and Kogarah. It’s not a drastic rethink of bus services in this region though; see the proposed map and the explanatory brochure.

One noticeable change, however, is the new Metrobus Route 30 from Mosman to Enmore via the CBD. I obviously can’t take any credit for it, but I must say it looks rather like my proposed metro route that runs from Newtown to Neutral Bay!

Another interesting point is that the brochure addresses the question of why mini-buses aren’t used – a good question, given that a one-size-fits-all approach, intuitively at least, doesn’t make sense.

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  1. Dan’s avatar

    Dan on 16 Oct 2009 at 1:31 PM

    The route may be very sim­ilar but the mode is not. It will have to nav­ig­ate through the sea of traffic along Par­ra­matta Rd and George St. A Metro could bypass all that.

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    1. Enoch Lau’s avatar

      Enoch Lau on 19 Oct 2009 at 12:21 AM

      I was think­ing about why the Met­ro­bus Route 10 is so weird… like why run a route from Leich­hardt to Kings­ford? I won­der if the rationale is to avoid hav­ing to ter­min­ate buses in the CBD…

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  2. Tommy Chen’s avatar

    Tommy Chen on 21 Oct 2009 at 9:36 AM

    Is it because it’s a fairly com­monly used route that’s not ser­viced by a dir­ect train line? The altern­at­ive would be to change in the city.

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