Buses at Altona Gate Shopping Centre (Altona North) - Melbourne Transport

Описание: In this video we see buses at Altona Gate, a place once described by Antiques Roadshow as the most outdated shopping centre in the western suburbs of Melbourne. Apart from some different stores and a lick of paint the place has barely changed at all since it opened in 1977, built on the site of an old quarry.

Altona Gate is situated on Millers Road which is a major bus corridor in the area, home to a number of frequent bus routes including the 232, 411/412, 471 and Smartbus route 903. Route 432 also serves the shopping centre along Duosa Road.

The first batch of clips were filmed in December 2012. Here we see a Melbourne Bus Link bus on route 232, a Westrans bus on route 412, a Ventura (National Bus Company) bus on route 903, and a couple of Sita buses including some Volvo B10M & B10B high floors on route 432.

Fast forward to June 2019 when the rest of the clips were filmed and A LOT has changed since 2012:

Transdev won the contract to operate the government owned bus routes in 2013. As a result they took over the former operations of Melbourne Bus Link and National Bus Company.
Westrans rebranded itself into CDC Melbourne in 2014.
Both companies have repainted their buses into the orange PTV livery.
Transdev has changed the types of buses that operate on Smartbus route 903. The Designline MAN's are gone in favor of Volgren bodied buses and newer Gemilang bodied Scania buses.
Sita's low floor buses have taken over route 432, displacing most of the remaining Volvo B10B high floors from route service. The company itself is now owned by Australian company Transit Systems.

Throughout the video we see various Transdev, CDC and Sita buses along Millers Road. We also see a bonus clip of a CDC Volvo B10M MkIV in charter livery passing through.

Fun fact: the old channel 10 sitcom/comedy show The Wedge had several scenes filmed inside Altona Gate.

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