Slowest Bus in Australia
Slowest Bus in Australia – IT’S a bus that takes up to 35 minutes to travel just 3.5km.
That’s a staggering 10 minutes per kilometre.
The 431, which takes Sydney suburban commuters into the CBD, is an example of why many Australians are abandoning public transport and clogging the roads with their cars.
One regular 431 passenger bet The Daily Telegraph that it was quicker to walk than take the bus – and he won.
James said the trip, from the CBD to his home in the innerwest suburb of Glebe during evening rush hour, would often take 35 minutes.
In the challenge, he took the bus while Telegraph reporter Joe Hildebrand went by foot. Hildebrand ended up beating the bus by more than a minute by taking an alternative route.
James said each day he tossed up whether to end up at work and at home in a lather of sweat or take the longer bus trip and the risk of a non-airconditioned vehicle, in which “you’re breathing in everyone else’s crap”.
“It drives you insane,” he said.
Another Sydney commuter, Douglas Revette, said it took him seven minutes to drive to work but to take public transport would require two buses and a journey time of one hour.
Slowest Bus in Australia
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