Light-City Buses
Light-City Buses was an Australian bus service operator in Adelaide. A subsidiary of Broadspectrum, it operated services from October 2011 until June 2018. as part of the Adelaide Metro network under contract to the Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure. In June 2018, the business was purchased by Torrens Transit.
History
In October 2011. Light-City Buses began operating the Adelaide Metro North-South and Outer North East region services under contract to the Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure. The two contract regions covered 43% of the bus services in Adelaide.The contracts were to run for an initial eight-year term, from October 2011 to June 2019 with an optional four-year extension exercisable if performance criteria were met. Transfield Services had previously unsuccessfully tendered to operate buses in Adelaide in 2004 in a joint venture with Transdev. The two contracts had been operated by Torrens Transit since April 2005 and between 2000 and 2005 by Serco.
In April 2013, Light-City Buses was stripped of eight routes for continued poor performance. In June 2018, Torrens Transit acquired the business.