A number of new routes and amended routes are proposed by the Network Review. Use this area to discuss concerns with these revised routes. more ...

The Bus Network Review aims to enhance services to the majority of the community. Are there other locations and issues that need to be considered? How is your suburb affected? Can services to your suburb be improved? more ...

I go to Merrewether High School and I currently catch the 350 or the 349. There are two buses every five to ten minutes on weekdays after three o'clock and two of those are always full. Most of the people more ...

The bus fleet is being substantially upgraded but are there other infrastructure issues that need to be reviewed? What about bus stops, priority signalling and bus lanes? more ...

Hi. Was just wondering, given her pre-election comments and stated strong interest in the Newcastle Buses Network Review and improving public transport, how often in a week does Ms McKay use Newcastle Buses (and any other public transport) to get to and from work, go shopping or to visit constituents?  more ...

Newcastle Buses is trialling extra late night services on weekends as another means of driving down alcohol fuelled violence and anti-social behaviour in Newcastle’s CBD. more ...

In the past few days my children have had a great deal of trouble getting to and from school. The main routes involved are 349 and 350. Buses appear to have been cancelled meaning they have had to wait more ...

Before the state election, and just before the time changes in January, ten buses would be off the road. Jodi McKay said BEFORE the state election that these ten buses would NOT be going to Sydney, yet more ...

The review has identified a number of strategic corridors for fast and frequent services. Are these the right corridors? more ...

I don't think we can really comment on any route properly, unless the frequencies, how many hours of each day they will run, what day the routes DON'T run, and examples of connecting times are known to more ...

There have been a lot of suggestions and opinions on what could be changed about the proposed network, but I'm curious as to what people like about the proposed changes? Keep putting suggestions in the other sections of the site, just put down what you think is better here. more ...

If the proposed changes to the bus routes go ahead, services to the university will be badly affected. The dropping of the 226 bus will leave no direct connection between Broadmeadow Station and the university. more ...

Broadmeadow will loose fast direct services as on the new proposal the 226 will go 349 and 322. I am a resident and catch buses to work and have for 30years and require all fast and direct routes availiable more ...

The Lower Hunter needs a full review of all public transport not just a "Proposal to Update the (STA) Bus Network."
The review should consider all buses, no matter what colour or who owns them, from Maitland more ...

Newcastle STA buses only carry 1.3 people for every 1 km travelled (from their Annual Report) That means that each bus has room for another 50 people!
For a better bus service we need to get more people more ...

I do feel that taking away the 226 Bus route is a big mistake as it is a very strategic corridor that is so importaint to so many of the Newcastle residents, it covers Newcastle west, Museum, Hamilton more ...

I would like to bring to your attention, in regards to the proposed changes to Newcastle bus services, that we will be losing a direct bus from 9 ways Broadmeadow to Waratah High School. This route is more ...

We thought users of the site might be interested in this extract from Hansard (the record of parliament) in which Jodi Mckay quoted directly from this discussion in a speech on the bus review. Follow the link to see the full speech. AndrewD, Commodore, Man3668 and Captain Scarlet are all quoted directly.  more ...

The bus network pre 2002 was 59 services last bus approx 12.30am every day. after 2002 cut to 24 but had to be expanded to 29 AKA attempts with services 313,315, 223,227,339,107,352,353 extensions more ...

CountryLink sometimes advertise, so why not advertise the buses (& as part of the bus review)? Say on the local TV stations, in the news media. I've encounted people that don't know that a bus route is nearby.
How many people here know about a free fare zone in Newcastle CBD for State Transit buses? Do you friends or neighbours know about it?
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1. IS THE REAL AIM TO PRIVATISE NEWCASTLE BUSES Since their will be less bus routes, therefore making it even harder for passengers, (as was the case in 2002) is the real aim of this review, to reduce more ...

A lot is said about having wheelchairs on buses. It does try to give equality however I believe there are much better ways of providing this service than useing regular buses to meet a specialist service. To more ...

I would like to see the proposed services 106 and 107 continue to St Joseph's Nurse Home at Sandgate. With the new traffic lights outside St Joseph's there is an ability for buses to turn at St Joseph's. This would enable access to the home for visitors who are often elderly themselves and for staff of the facility. It would also provide better access for those wanting to visit Sandgate Cemetary. more ...

This strategy combined with regular running times, cleanliness, politeness, and promptness would be a boon for public transport and take huge pressure of the road network. The RTA is full of engineers who love to build bigger and bigger roads. We need the Government to take a holistic view of the transport budget - take one year's road budget and apply it to some innovative experiments. more ...

Imagine you go to school. You went to bed at quarter past ten last night because you had a drama performance and got up at 6:50 that morning. You are extremely tired and you are running late for school. more ...

Recently, the 350 has been cancelled and I have resorted to walking to school. I have also heard that some busses in Sydney have crashed and state transit has sent many of our busses to take over. Do you have to pick the 350 and 322? Three 350s have filled up before most people from my school get on and we arrive home late. Please stop canceling important busses! more ...

Just for information, commenting on the bus review has been extended to Friday 11 January 2008.
See http://www.newcastlebuses.info/news.php?id=682 more ...

It seems that MoT has changed the rules for school bus passes. The old rule was you must live at least 2kms from the school to your house as tthe crow flies. They have changed it to 2kms to any part of more ...

What needs to be a major part of this review is having an integrated ticket system (ITS) for different modes of transport & between private & government transport companies similar to Melboune's or Perth's more ...

Now that both of the Swansea buses from town will not go through Broadmeadow. Have the people of Broadmeadow been naughty and cannot have a few buses past this railway station hub on the way from the city more ...

A big push on this new configuration of bus routes is for using more interchanging of buses. However, many locations where you may need to interchange, are not 'interchange friendly', i.e. on busy roads more ...

The bus network pre 2002 was 59 services last bus approx 12.30am every day. after 2002 cut to 24 but had to be expanded to 29 AKA attempts with services 313,315, 223,227,339,107,352,353 extensions to 111, 201, 107 alterations to 103,107, 222.. Now NEW services 24 what a nice improvement Meanwhile Sydney has increased by many services taken over private bus firms & NEW buses every few weeks  more ...

Their has been a lot of comments about the various issues regarding the bus route review, yet hardly any comments about connections between different modes of transport for example between train & bus more ...

Today, five buses all operating special came one after the other, creating a gap in the CBD of about 15+ minutes or so, even though the majority of bus routes use the street.
A review should be lookiing at reducing dead running like this. Same thing happened on NYE, about four buses running special one after the other, even though the buses were full, with standing passengers. more ...

I currently use the 310 / 311 bus service and do not agree that an already lengthy bus ride should be changed to incorporate more stops, more people and more travel time. peak hour buses are nearly full more ...

The Fare Free Zone (FFZ) needs to be extended to Hamilton (Beaumont & Tudor Sts) along Beaumont St to the corner of Maitland Rd & Beaumont St, and it needs to be extended to include the trains between either Broadmeadow or Hamilton & Newcastle. The period of time also needs to be extended from first to last government bus. more ...

I have been employed here at St Josephs Nursing home 5.5 years and in that time one big issue has been the difficulty for visitors without their own transport to access the facility via public transport more ...

After the results are in for the bus review, will Newcastle Buses publish another route map with the most useful changes & suggestions?
If/when they do publish the resulting map, all the times, days of running, frequencies must be provided.
The March 2002 changes were (& still are) just a disaster. State transit published a review in October 2001, with people commenting, yet the STA just introduced routes, that had no resemblance to the October 2001 review. more ...