Surfside Buslines
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Surfside Buslines is the principal provider of public transportation on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. It operates bus routes under the TransLink scheme in southeast Queensland.
Service area
Surfside operates from Dreamworld in the north of the Gold Coast as far south as Murwillumbah in northern New South Wales (NSW). It is a unique operation as it encompasses both Queensland and NSW state government contracts for Gold Coast City Council and Tweed Shire Council respectively. The area with the best service coverage is the coastal strip, particularly between Southport and Burleigh Heads.
Routes
For accurate travel information, see the TransLink website linked below.
Queensland (TransLink) services
See the Gold Coast section of the TransLink services page.Surfside Buslines run a series of routes which run up and down the Gold Coast Highway spine as a line-haul. This includes route 700, running from Southport to Tweed Heads bypassing Pacific Fair every 30 minutes, 24 hours a day, every day of the year. This route has being touted as Australia's best all-night bus service. [link]
All Gold Coast Highway services, routes in the southern areas of the Gold Coast, all new routes and recently improved routes have been converted to TransLink's system of unique three digit numbering for all South East Queensland buses. With these changes, all routes will be improved to TransLink's defined minimum service standards.
The remaining old routes are planned to be renumbered, and improved if need be, by the end of 2006.
Plans to extend CityTrain's Gold Coast Line south of Robina to the Gold Coast Airport will see local bus routes rearranged to provide new feeder services for the new stations, as dictated in the Draft TransLink Network Plan.
A Carrara Markets Special is chartered by the markets, operating a $1.00 return service from Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach and Pacific Fair direct to the Markets.
Future Surfside Buslines services
The Draft TransLink Network Plan dictates plans for future improvements to Surfside's bus service. This incorporates new routes to better service the Gold Coast's growing population and urban sprawl.Short Term (to 2007)
- Review, restructure and possibly improve all routes to increase service frequency, and make services more reliable to meet minimum standards for service coverage
- Trial flexible-route services in developing suburbs and canal estates
- New route 727 running to Pacific Pines
- New route 743 running from Carrara to Griffith University via Nerang
Medium Term (2008-2010)
- Progressively implement either bus rapid transit or light rail between Griffith University and Broadbeach
- New feeder route running from Runaway Bay to Coomera Station via Hope Island
- New route running from Varsity Lakes and Robina to Griffith University
- New route running from Southport to Broadbeach via Ferry Road and Bundall Road
Long Term (2011-2014)
- Extend bus rapid transit or light rail to Coolangatta
- New direct route running from Southport to Coomera via Runaway Bay, Boykambil and currently proposed Intra-regional Transport Corridor
- New routes linking western communities as demand permits
New South Wales services
- 601 - Tweed Heads to Bilambil Heights : All Stops (Every day) (SBL)
- 602 - Tweed Heads to Tweed Heights : All Stops (Every day) (SBL)
- 603 - Tweed Heads to Pottsville : All Stops via Kingscliff (Every day) (SBL)
- 604 - Tweed Heads to Hillcrest : All Stops (Every day) (SBL)
- 605 - Tweed Heads to Murwillumbah : All Stops (Every day) (SBL)
- 606 - Tweed Heads to Fingal : All Stops (Monday - Saturday) (SBL)
- 607 - Tweed Heads to Kingscliff : All Stops via Chinderah (Every day) (SBL)
Interchanges
The main interchanges are:
- Australia Fair (Southport))'''
- Pacific Fair (Broadbeach)
- Tweed Heads
- Helensvale Station
- Nerang Station
- Robina Station
- '''Surfers Paradise Main Stops (50 Cavill Ave southbound; Appel Park northbound)
- Burleigh Heads Stop 42
- The Pines
- Runaway Bay Shopping village
- Harbour Town Shopping Centre
Fleet
Surfside operates a varied fleet of approximately 330 buses and coaches.
Hino
- RG197K
- RG230
Leyland
- Super Viking
- Tiger
MAN
- SL202
MCA
- MCA coaches (ex-Coachtrans)
Mercedes-Benz
- O400
- O405/NH
- O500LE
- 811D, LO812, LO814, O814D and O185D minibuses
Toyota
- Coaster
Volvo
Surfside also operates the Gold Coast Tourist Shuttle, a coach service for tourists connecting hotels, attractions and the airport, among other things.Depots
- Ernest (Southport)
- Tweed Heads
Livery
Surfside's livery is a yellow and white pattern. Some more recently introduced/refurbished buses have a corporate emblem displayed at the sides and rear consisting of the words "Surfside Buslines" accompanied either by just a wave and sun design or also by palm trees and surfboards, whereas other buses merely depict a stylised "Surfside Buslines" in blue flowing script.See also
External links
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