Commuters flock to high frequency bus routes in month after Newcastle bus overhaul: state government

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Updated February 19 2018 - 10:05am, first published 6:30am
ALL ABOARD: "Business as usual was not an option with declining patronage" ... Opal card data shows certain high frequency routes received a bump in patronage after an overhaul of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie bus network.
ALL ABOARD: "Business as usual was not an option with declining patronage" ... Opal card data shows certain high frequency routes received a bump in patronage after an overhaul of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie bus network.

NEWCASTLE’S lonely “ghost buses” are dead and private operator Keolis Downer is the ghostbuster.

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Brodie Owen is a police reporter for the Newcastle Herald.

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