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Swan Transit is an Australian bus company operating Transperth bus services under contract to the Public Transport Authority . It is a subsidiary of Transit Systems .
History [ edit ]
On 21 January 1996, Swan Transit commenced operating services in the Midland area with 43 buses.[1] [2] [3]
On 29 September 1996, Swan Transit commenced operating services in the Canning Vale and Southern River areas from depots in Canning Vale and Southern River with 119 Mercedes-Benz and Renault buses.[4] [5] [6] [7]
In January 1998, Swan Transit gained further services in the Armadale South and Kalamunda areas on 5 July 1998.[8] [9] [10]
In September 2002, Swan Transit purchased the Perth operations of Connex WA, resulting services gain in Claremont and Belmont areas.[11] Transdev ) would re-enter the market in September 2004 when it purchased Southern Coast Transit from National Express .[12] [13]
In May 2011, Swan Transit commenced an eight-year contract to operate services in the Marmion contract area. The Marmion contract area includes Karrinyup depot which was operated by Path Transit . However, Swan Transit did not retain the Kalamunda contract, which was taken over by Path Transit in October 2012.[14] [15]
As of April 2019, Swan Transit operates the Canning, Claremont, Marmion, Midland and Southern River area contracts.[16] [17]
In October 2019, Swan Transit was successful in retaining its Marmion and Claremont contracts, as well as gaining the Joondalup contract, taking over the Joondalup operations from Transdev WA on 19 January 2020.[18] [19] [citation needed
Swan Transit South West [ edit ]
TransBunbury & TransBusselton [ edit ]
In January 2015, Swan Transit commenced operating 10 year contracts to operate services in Bunbury and Busselton under the TransBunbury and TransBusselton brands, taking over from South West Coach Lines .[20] [21]
TransAlbany [ edit ]
In July 2017, Swan Transit commenced operating 10 year contracts to operate services in Albany under the TransAlbany brand, taking over from Love's Bus Service .[22] [23] [24]
Karrinyup bus depot
As of January 2020, Swan Transit operates 13 depots for its Transperth operations:
Outside Perth, Swan Transit operates four depots, Albany , Bunbury , Busselton and Kalgoorlie , for its TransAlbany, TransBunbury, TransBusselton and TransGoldfields operations respectively.
References [ edit ]
^ "Competitive Tendering" Australian Bus Panorama issue 11/3 October 1995 page 30
^ "Swan Transit" Australian Bus Panorama issue 12/1 August 1996 page 25
^ Private companies awarded preferred tenderer status for bus service contracts Archived 22 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine Minister for Transport 28 June 1996
^ "Additional contract areas" Australian Bus Panorama issue 12/1 August 1996 page 28
^ "New operators take over" Fleetline November 1996 page 206
^ "Competitive Tendering" Australian Bus Panorama issue 12/3 December 1996 pages 24-26
^ First stage of contracting out remainder of Transperth's bus service completed Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Minister for Transport 23 December 1997
^ "Privatisation" Fleetline March 1998 page 63
^ "Privatisation Progress" Australian Bus Panorama issue 13/5 April 1998 page 23
^ Connex WA sale approved by Government Archived 22 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine Minister for Planning & Infrastructure 1 September 2002
^ Sale of Australian bus operations National Express 3 September 2004
^ National Express sells buses The Age
^ "History" . Transit Systems . Archived from the original on 8 October 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2015 .
^ "Public Transport Authority Annual Report 2011-12" (PDF) . Public Transport Authority. p. 26. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 July 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2019 .
^ Annual Report for year ended 30 June 2015 Archived 7 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine Transperth page 41
^ "Proposed Bus Depot Locations" (PDF) . Transperth . April 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019 .
^ "Transit Systems Perth bus contracts renewed, expanded" . Australasian Bus & Coach . 10 October 2019. Archived from the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019 .
^ "Transit Systems Group Continues To Expand Its Services In Perth" . Transit Systems. Archived from the original on 30 October 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2019 .
^ Provision of Bunbury Regional Town Bus Service Archived 23 April 2022 at the Wayback Machine Tenders WA 16 December 2014
^ Provision of Busselton Regional Town Bus Service Tenders WA 16 December 2014
^ Provision of the Albany Regional Town Bus Services Tenders WA 24 April 2017
^ New Contract Awarded Archived 12 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine Transit Systems 4 May 2017
^ Seamless Transition in Albany Archived 12 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine Transit Systems 17 July 2017
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