Veolia Transport NSW

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Veolia Transport
Overview
Mode Commuter bus
Owner Veolia Environnement
Area St George/Sutherland
Business
Key People Morris Caputi (Managing Director)
Revenue $635 million (Australia-wide)
Founded 1999
Operations
Network 40 routes
Depots Bankstown
Menai
Revesby
Taren Point
Villawood
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Veolia Transport NSW is a division of the global Veolia company that operates the Metro Light Rail, the Metro Monorail and commuter bus services in the southern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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[edit] Metro Transport

Main article: Metro Light Rail

Veollia Transport operate the Metro Light Rail, under contract to the owners Metro Transport Sydney. This single light rail line runs from Central railway station to Lilyfield.

Main article: Metro Monorail

Veollia Transport operate the Metro Monorail (originally Sydney Monorail), under contract to the owners Metro Transport Sydney. This single monorail line is a circuit extending from Paddy's Market via World Square (a shopping centre on the corner of George and Pitt Streets) to City Centre (corner of Market and Pitt Streets), to Darling Harbour and over the water to a station at Pyrmont Bridge.

[edit] Bus services

[edit] History

The origins of the company that is now Veolia NSW can be traced back to 1935 when motor-bus services began to operate between Sutherland Station and Woronora River. Following the opening of the Alfords Point Bridge in 1973, a variety of routes were operating, including extensions to Padstow station. The service was known as Menai Bus Service, and buses carried a white and green livery. In 1988, the company was sold to Ron Deane, who was already operating buses on the North Shore, and was re-named Deanes Coaches. Buses were repainted white with yellow, blue and orange stripes. In 1988, the company expanded with the purchase of part of the old route 88 from Peakhurst Coaches, and the purchase of Hadfields at Engadine. The company was renamed Southtrans when these companies were purchased. Other bus companies were acquired in the 1990s, such as Buslines, Sutherland Bus Service and Carss' Park Chartered Tours. In 1999, the company was sold to Connex and renamed Connex Southtrans. Buses carried a white livery with a yellow front. Pioneer Coaches, Crossley Bus Lines and part of Baxters Bus Lines were later acquired. In 2006, the company was renamed Veolia NSW as part of a global corporate re-branding exercise. The livery changed to all-white.[1] On 1 February 2007, Transit First was sold to Veolia NSW, with the sale including 86 buses, 15 routes, and the lease on the current Bankstown depot.

[edit] Current operations

Veolia NSW operates 53 bus routes from bus depots at Taren Point, Menai and Revesby serving the southern Sydney (Region 10), and Bankstown and Villawood serving Region 13. It has a fleet of 263 buses. It operates two of Sydney's first new strategic bus corridors, between Hurstville and Miranda (routes 970 and 971), and Bankstown and Parramatta (route 910). In 2006, Veolia took over operation of the N70 nightride bus. In September 2006, region 13 routes underwent a reorganisation and simplification. School services and charters are also a large part of their business.

On 9 January 2007 it was announced that Veolia had purchased the operations of Sydney bus company Transit first[1] The handover took place on 1 February 2007.

[edit] Current routes

  • 452: Beverly Hills - Hurstville - Bexley - Rockdale
  • 453: Hurstville - Carlton - Rockdale
  • 455: Kingsgrove - Hurstville - Kogarah - St George Hospital - Rockdale Plaza
  • 900: Liverpool - Burwood via Bankstown
  • 901: Liverpool - Holsworthy via Wattle Grove
  • 902: Liverpool - Holsworthy via Moorebank
  • 902X: Voyager Pt, Pleasure Pt, Sandy Pt
  • 903: Liverpool - Chipping Norton
  • 904: Liverpool - Fairfield via Lansvale
  • 905: Fairfield - Bankstown via Villawood
  • 906: Parramatta - Guildford - Granville - Fairfield
  • 907: Parramatta - Bass Hill Plaza - Bankstown
  • 908: Bankstown - Sefton - Regents Park - Berala - Auburn - South Granville - Merrylands
  • 909: Bankstown - Parramatta via Auburn
  • 910: Parramatta - Granville - Chester Hill - Yagoona - Bankstown
  • 911: Bankstown - Auburn via Chester Hill
  • 912: Bankstown - Botanica Gardens - Lidcombe
  • 913: Bankstown - Strathfield via Roberts Rd
  • 914: Greenacre - Strathfield (operated by Transit First)
  • 915: Lidcombe - University via TAFE
  • 916: Chester Hill - Old Guildford
  • 922: Bankstown - UWS - Milperra - East Hills
  • 923: Bankstown - Revesby - Picnic Point - Panania
  • 924: Bankstown - Revesby - Panania - East Hills
  • 925: Bankstown - Condell Park - East Hills
  • 926: Bankstown - Revesby - Revesby Heights
  • 927: Bankstown - Padstow - One Tree Point - Eventide Village
  • 947: Hurstville - Dolls Point - Ramsgate - Kogarah
  • 948: Bankstown - Padstow - Peakhurst - Hurstville
  • 958: Hurstville - Carss Park - Kogarah - Rockdale Plaza
  • 959: Hurstville - Bald Face
  • 961: Barden Ridge - Sutherland - Miranda (previously 960)
  • 962: Bankstown - Padstow - Illawong - Menai - Sutherland - Miranda
  • 963: Menai - Alfords Point - Padstow
  • 965: Sutherland - Woronora (Prince Edward Park Road)
  • 967: Miranda - Oyster Bay - Jannali - Como West
  • 968: Miranda - Kareela - Jannali - Bonnet Bay
  • 969: Miranda - Kirrawee - Thomas Holt - Sutherland
  • 970, 971: Miranda - Sylvania - Southgate - Blakehurst - South Hurstville - Hurstville
  • 972: Miranda - Frank Vickery Village - Sylvania Waters - Southgate - Kangaroo Pt (with connections to Hurstville)
  • 973: Miranda - Yowie Bay
  • 974: Miranda - Gymea Station - Gymea Bay
  • 975: Miranda - Grays Point - Miranda
  • 976: Sutherland - Grays Point - Sutherland
  • 991: Sutherland - Loftus - Engadine - Heathcote
  • 992: Miranda - Sutherland - Loftus - Engadine - Kingswood Rd
  • 993: Engadine - Woronora Heights
  • 996: Engadine - Heathcote East - Engadine

[edit] Shoppers' routes

  • S1: Lansvale - Cabramatta
  • S2: Auburn Botanical Gardens - Auburn Shops
  • S3: Villawood Shops - Chester Hill
  • S4: Chester Hill - Sefton
  • S5: Milperra - Padstow

[edit] NightRide

  • N70: Town Hall - Penrith

[edit] Bus fleet summary

Bus bodies include: Custom Coaches, Bustech, Pressed Metal Corporation (PMC), Volgren and Ansair.[2]

[edit] Veolia Transport in Australia

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Veolia Transport NSW. Veolia Transport. Retrieved on 25 August 2006.
  2. ^ Veolia NSW Fleet list. Bus Australia. Retrieved on 25 August 2006.

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