Transit Maps: CBD

Submission – Official Map: Sydney CBD Bus Spider Map, 2020

July 21, 2020

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2 stars, Australia, bus, CBD, New South Wales, NSW, spider map, submission, Sydney, Sydney Buses

Submitted by Felix Taaff, who says: Attached is a map of available bus routes from a single stop near Sydney’s Central Station. Apologies for the image quality [Don’t worry – I straightened the image in Photoshop – Cam]. I was intrigued by the map with my first impression being that it would be very useful to tourists and visitors near Central station, with a network of routes shown but focussing on the CBD area. But […]

Historical Map: Location of City Bus Terminals, Sydney, 1961

February 4, 2018

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1961, Australia, bus, CBD, Department of Government Transport, New South Wales, NSW, Sydney

A map showing the main Sydney bus terminals and the routes which ran through them from December 1961. The route designations are an uncomfortable mix of streets the buses run along downtown (Pitt and Castlereagh Street Services) and eventual destinations (Northern Suburbs Services via the Harbour Bridge), which doesn’t really help to make the system user-friendly. The extensive legend below the map helps somewhat, but it’s all somewhat arcane. In practice, you remembered where the […]