Hopped on the bus at Woolooware and I saw this type of bus I've never seen before!!! Leather seats, wood flooring, even charging ports! Does anyone know what type of bus this is? I catch public transport all around Sydney, and have done almost everyday for many years, and I've never seen a bus like this before.
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Leather seats are foul. Oh nouuu
I’ve noticed these around the shire recently too, rarely but occassionally! I’m not too knowledgeable about buses but they seem cool, another one I’ve seen has a mix of leather and cloth seats as well.
Looks luxurious, where’d you spot this one?
A school/charter bus. Was this is route service?
A shot of the outside would be better to identify the bus type specifically, but indeed the newer buses have all kinds of modern conveniences.
If you got the fleet number or the bus rego you can actually look it up on a publicly available bus fleet list to get the exact model details. If it was in Woolooware it was probably a U-go mobility bus, perhaps based at the Taren Point depot. U-go has a very diverse fleet, they’ve inherited a lot of buses from other companies.
Was it on a normal public bus route?
Sometimes decommissioned charter buses are used as public transport buses. Too old to use as a charter but much nicer than your normal public transport. You see it more often in regional areas than in the cities though
back in the day there were a few busses floating around for private hire (weddings, school trips and such) which had nicer interiors
they were sometimes used on a regular route if the normally assigned busses were unavailable
Most likely a bus from U-Go Mobility, especially if they are on route services. They got a small number of buses that have these features, like no more than 5 or 6. These buses used to belong to the former Kinetic Charter operations, doing school work and charter or rail replacement services. In late 2024, they cease their operations with some buses transferred to interstate and some was stored. It was last year when some buses were redirected to be used for U-Go Mobility route services. Most of these buses are in plain white livery.
Kingsgrove, Menai and Taren Point have these buses, but not all have the USB port chargers or leather seats. Revesby Depot doesn’t have any allocations if anyone wondered.