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CDC Melbourne is a bus operator in Melbourne, Australia. As a Melbourne bus company, it operates 47 bus routes under contract to the Government of Victoria. It is a subsidiary of ComfortDelGro Cabcharge. ==History== The origins of CDC Melbourne can be traced to January 1976 when Kefford Corporation purchased Point Cook - Werribee Passenger Service, Werribee. In July 1987 Bono Bus Lines, Footscray was purchased with route 406 Footscray – Keilor East and the operation rebranded as Westrans.〔"Victorian Buses in the Eighties" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' issue 6/8 May 1991 page 14〕 In January 1988, Kefford Corporation purchased the Sitch Group with subsidiaries:〔"Victorian Buses in the Eighties" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' issue 7/1 August 1991 page 3〕 *Altona Bus Lines, Altona *Footscray - Yarraville Bus Service, Yarraville *North Sunshine Bus Service, Sunshine *St Albans Bus Service, Sunshine *Sitch Bus Service, Sunshine Also in January 1988, Kefford Corporation purchased routes 605 Melbourne City Centre - Elsternwick and 630 Elwood - Monash University from Sinclair's Bus Service with the operation rebranded as Eastrans.〔 In May 1991, St Kilda Bus Service was purchased with route 606 Port Melbourne - St Kilda and rebranded Werribee Bus Lines.〔"Kefford Group Fleets" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' issue 7/1 August 1991 page 35〕 Later the Point Cook, Sitch and Weribee operations were also brought under the Westrans brand. In February 2009, Eastrans and Westrans were included in the sale of Kefford Corporation to ComfortDelGro Cabcharge.〔(Kefford Group finds a buyer ) ''Australian Bus & Coach'' 20 November 2008〕 In July 2011, route 601 commenced as a high frequency shuttle between Huntingdale station and Monash University. In July 2013 the route operations of Driver Group were purchased with routes 612 and 623 - 626 with 42 buses.〔(ComfortDelGro Expands Melbourne Operations Through A$22.0 Million Acquisition ) ComfortDelGro 20 May 2013〕〔(Acquisition of further Bus Route Service Business in Melbourne ) Cabcharge 20 May 2013〕〔(Updates and News ) CDC Victoria〕 In October 2014, Eastrans and Westrans were united under the CDC Melbourne brand. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CDC Melbourne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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