Busways
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| Busways | |
| Overview | |
| Mode | Commuter bus |
| Owner | Rowe family |
| Area | Western Sydney Central Coast Hills District |
| Business | |
| Key People | Dick Rowe (founder) |
| Staff | 1000 |
| Founded | 1947 |
| Operations | |
| Fleet | 600 |
| Depots | 16 |
| Ticketing | Proprietary |
| Public transport | | |
Busways is a company that operates bus services in the western suburbs of Sydney, Central Coast and North Coast of New South Wales, Australia.
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[edit] Blacktown services
Busways provides services in Rouse Hill, Quakers Hill, Prospect, Blacktown, Rooty Hill, Mount Druitt and Riverstone, as well as many other suburbs.
[edit] Campbelltown services
Busways provide services in Campbelltown to Camden and Wollongong. For the area they have 2 depots, 1 at Smeaton Grange and 1 near Airds. The Routes they operate are:
878 Eschol Park via Campbelltown Road and Raby Rd 880 Minto Mall via Claymore, Eagle Vale and Kearns 881 Leumeah Nth 882 Leumeah Sth via Waminda Av 882B Leumeah Sth via O'Sullivan Rd 883 Ruse 883K Kentlyn 884 Airds 884W Wedderburn via 884 route through Airds 885 Bradbury and St Helens Park Nth 886 Bradbury and Airds via Macarthur Square 887 St Helens Pk Sth via Crispsarkle Dr and Cleopatra Dr 889 St Helens Pk Sth via Copperfield Dr 890 Appin and Wollongong 891 Glen Alpine 892 Menangle (some sevices operate via 891 route) 893 Blair Athol 894 Harrington Pk, Currans Hill and Camden 895 Camden South (some services operate through Smeaton Grangle and at night and on sundays operate as 896) 896 Narellan Vale via Mt Annan and narellan and Catherine Fields
Macarthur Square changed around the bus rank there from in the carpark to on Kellicar Rd heading towards Menangle in February 2006.
[edit] Central Coast services
Busways provides services in Gosford, Kincumber, Terrigal, Tuggerah and Wyong, as well as many other suburbs.
Busways currently have 8 timetables in circulation in the Central Coast Area. 5 of these are from the Gosford Area (Kincumber depot)and 3 of these are from the Wyong Area (Woongarah Depot).
Timetables are as follows:
GOSFORD:
Route 33-34 Kariong, Somersby Mangrove Mountain (Bottle Green); Route 36,37,38 Gosofrd, Narara, Wyoming, Lisarow, Westfield Tuggerah (Red); Routes 50-60 PENINSULA BUS BOOK covering the Woy Woy Peninsula (Pink); Routes 67-69 Terrigal, Erina Fair, Wamberal (Blue); Routes 61,63-66,69 KINCUMBER BUS BOOK covering Kincumber, Erina & Avoca Areas (Light Green)
WYONG:
Routes 78-82 Lake Haven, Wyong and Tuggerah, also contains routes 79N & 83 (Blue); Routes 90-92 Toukley, Norah Head, Budgewoi, San Remo (Yellow); Routes 97-99 Blue Haven, Gwandalan, Swansea and Charlestown (Bottle Green)
The longest service that is on the Central Coast Network is the 99 from Charlestown to Lake Haven via Lake Munmorah, Summerland Point, Gwandalan, Catherine Hill Bay, Nords Wharf and Swansea up the Pacific Highway taking 1 hour and 37 minutes. The next longest is the 60 from Gosford to Woy Woy via Erina Fair, Kincumber, Avoca Drive, Empire Bay Drive, Bensville, St Huberts Island, Ettalong, Umina and Woy Woy. This journey take 1 hour and 30 minutes
Network maps are avaialable on the Busways website for both the Wyong and Gosford Areas.
The tickets that are sold are Single Ride Tickets, PET, and Bus Plus (from City Rail). All fares are based on sections more information availbale on the website.
Wyong and Gosford services meet only at Westfield Tuggerah, making it possible to travel from Charlestown/Swansea through to Patonga only on Busways buses.
Many buses in the Central Coast area have started to change their livery. Buses with fleet numbers 300 and above generally, are going from the Red and Gold Livery with the old logo, to all over white with the new logo (above)
[edit] School bus services
The New South Wales state government sub-contracts some school bus services on the Central Coast to Busways, which enable students to travel to and from school for free provided they show an appropriate bus pass.
[edit] North Coast services
Busways provides services throughout Grafton, Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie, Yamba and Great Lakes.
[edit] See also
[edit] External link
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