I.D.s 59 & 21667 photographed by John Ward on 2008-04-03 using a digital camera.
State Transit Authority Volvo B12BLEA articulated 1713 in all over livery for PrePay. The bus has a body built by Custom Coaches in June 2006 and shows Route 568 School and is in the turning loop at Valentia Street Wharf, Woolwich, on Sydney, Sydney, N.S.W. Australia.
The famous harbour and the City of Sydney appear in the background.
The bus is on a school special trip. Seventeen buses are needed for the schools in the area each afternoon. Each bus has to go beyond the schools and turn in the special bus turning area. Woolwich is on a peninsula and there there is no other place to turn a bus.
Ferries operate on the harbour linking Circular Quay in Sydney with this wharf and other wharves along the way to Woolwich.
The bus is one of four out of 80 articulated vehicles in a special all over colour scheme advertising prepay services. All buses are driver only operated and the introduction of the prepay concept is being done to speed up services. Some services are fully prepay meaning that you have to have a ticket already before getting on the bus. No ticket means no travelling on the bus.
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