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Light-City Buses is an Australian bus service operator in Adelaide. It operates services as part of the Adelaide Metro network under contract to the Government of South Australia. It is a subsidiary of Transfield Services. ==History== In October 2011 Light-City Buses commenced operating the Adelaide Metro North-South and Outer North East region services under contact to the Government of South Australia.〔(Transfield Services awarded $567 million Adelaide metropolitan bus contract ) Transfield Services 29 April 2011〕 The two contract regions cover 43% of the bus services in Adelaide.〔(Report on the Adelaide Metro Bus Service Contracts ) Minister for Transport August 2011〕 The contracts are to run for an initial eight-year term, from 2 October 2011 to 30 June 2019 with an optional four-year extension exercisable if performance criteria is met.〔 Transfield Services had previously unsuccessfully tendered to operate buses in Adelaide in 2004 in a joint venture with Transdev.〔(Report on the Auditor-Generals Examination of Certain Bus Contracts and the Probity of Processes Leading up to the Awarding of the Contracts ) Auditor General 12 September 2005〕 The two contracts had been operated by Torrens Transit since April 2005〔"New Metropolitan Bus Contracts for Adelaide" Minister for Urban Development & Planning 17 February 2005〕〔(Serco bus drivers end strike ) ''ABC News'' 19 February 2005〕 and between 2000 and 2005 by Serco.〔"Adelaide Bus Tendering Results Announced" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' 15/4 February 2000 page 21〕〔"Adelaide Bus Tendering Results" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' 15/5 April 2000 page 29〕〔(Competitive Tendering for Bus Services ) Seventh International Conference on Competition & Ownership in Land Passenger Transport June 2001〕 In April 2013 Light-City Buses was stripped of eight routes for continued poor performance.〔(Bus company Transfield stripped of eight routes and fined for being late ) ''Adelaide Advertiser'' 24 April 2013〕〔(Bus company stripped of routes ) ''ABC News'' 25 April 2013〕〔(SA operator forfeits routes due to poor performance ) ''Australasian Bus & Coach'' 26 April 2013〕 Light-City Buses also operate charter buses from their St. Agnes and Morphettville Depots 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「Light-City Buses」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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