Doncaster Area Rapid Transit (DART)
In the 2008 Victorian Transport Plan, the Victorian Government allocated $360 million to a comprehensive upgrade of bus services in the Manningham area.
Four routes with SmartBus service levels will be introduced to complement existing and planned SmartBus services that will run through the region (see map below). For Manningham residents, this will provide a network of high frequency routes that travel both east-west and north-south through the municipality.
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Doncaster Area Rapid Transit System (DART) improvements
What will DART provide?
The proposed routes are highlighted in the map above- Routes 301, 304, 307 and 319*.
The service span of these routes will improve to 19 hours on weekdays, 18 hours on Saturdays and 14 hours Sundays.
Weekday bus services will double on these routes, with operating hours extended to as early as 5am and as late as midnight.
The frequency of services will be 7-10 minutes during peak periods.
A range of bus priority measures will deliver average travel time savings of more than10% in peak periods.
More than 250 bus stops will be upgraded to
SmartBus standards.
* Note that some routes may be slightly altered from current configuration to improve travel times and overall service.
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SmartBus project team
Department of Transport
GPO Box 2797
Melbourne VIC 3001
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