Box Hill bus terminus, Melbourne

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The Box Hill bus terminus is a bus terminus located on the rooftop of Box Hill Central (also known as Centro Box Hill) shopping centre near the corner of Whitehorse Road and Station Street. It has connecting services with Tram and Train. To tram is only a 2-3 minute walk and to train is only a few minutes. Box Hill bus terminus is not a commonly used name for the bus terminus.

Contents 1 Facilities 2 Calls for upgrade 3 Connecting Services 4 External links

[edit] Facilities

Box Hill bus terminus does not have many facilities but was recently upgraded. The terminus was upgraded with better lighting, better timetable information and new clearer and easier to read Metlink signage was erected. Most facilities however are downstairs. The terminus has 14 bus bays serving 20 bus routes.

table with services on weekdays, Saturday and Sunday

bay	route	description	M-F	Sat	Sun
1	700	Mordialloc via Chadstone SC and Holmesglen	63	43	28
2	291	Heidelberg via Doncaster Shoppingtown	64	30	13
3	293	Greensborough via Doncaster Shoppingtown	35	12	6
3	259	The Pines via Doncaster Shoppingtown	22	10	5
4	286	The Pines via Blackburn	44	25	6
4	289	Donvale via Elgar Road and George Street	18	10	0
5	279	Shoppingtown via Templestowe	63	23	14
6	302	City via Eastern Freeway	25	16	8
6	202	East Kew via Belmore Road	12	12	6
7	612	Chadstone via Camberwell and Glen Iris	13	5	0
8	270	Ringwood via Mitcham Stn	24	11	0
8	271	Nunawading via Springfield Road	39	12	5
8	284	Shoppingtown via Mont Albert	25	10	0
9	315	City via Freeway	1	0	0
9	735	Blackburn South	26	0	0
10	765	Mitcham via Forest Hill SC	31	18	0
10	766	Burwood	24	15	0
11	733	Oakleigh via Mt Waverley and Monash University	44	25	13
12		no services
13	732	Upper Ferntree Gully via Burwood & Knox City SC	39	21	13
14	767	Southland SC via Deakin University and Chadstone SC	36	23	19

648 buses come in on most weekdays, 321 on Saturday, and 138 on Sunday. The terminus has many waiting benches for passengers as well as a newsagency and toilets located in close proximity.

[edit] Calls for upgrade

In November 2006, the local newspaper of the area published an article stating that the terminus needs some upgrades. The article states that the terminus is flocked which diesel engine fumes and is also very loud and never quiet (besides at night) and there has been many calls for upgrade from the general public including this and also to have better connections to tram and train as buses operate after 5pm which by that time, most shops would have closed and going down the escalator and into the train station is sometimes dangerous at late night, especially when changing to tram as the tram is outside and is a walk down the shops.

[edit] Connecting Services

More information: Box Hill railway station, Melbourne

Box Hill bus terminus has connecting services with Trains and Trams. They are very close and can be walked. The area is serviced by Train on the Belgrave and Lilydale line and has frequent services to the city during peak hours. There is only one tram route which comes every so 10 to 15 minutes. The tram route is a 109 service to Port Melbourne. Usually, low floor trams operate on the route.

[edit] External links

• Centro Box Hill (Shopping Centre)