Custom Coaches bodied MAN 18.320 in January 2011
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Parent | Transport Canberra and City Services Directorate |
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Founded | 1926Federal Capital Commission as Canberra City Omnibus Service | by
Commenced operation | 19 July 1926 |
Headquarters | ACTION House, 200 Scollay Street, Greenway |
Locale | Canberra |
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Service type | Bus services |
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Lounge | Westfield Belconnen |
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Fleet | 430 (March 2017) |
Annual ridership | 17.8 million (2015/16) |
Chief Operating Officer | Bren Burkevics |
Website | www |
ACTION is a bus service operator in Canberra, Australia.
On 19 July 1926, the Federal Capital Commission commenced operating public bus services between Eastlake (now Kingston) in the south and Ainslie in the north.
The service was first known as Canberra City Omnibus Service, but it has had a number of names over the years, including Canberra City Bus Service, Canberra Omnibus Service and Canberra Bus Service. On 14 February 1977, it was renamed as the Australian Capital Territory Internal Omnibus Network, or ACTION for short.
As part of the move to ACT self-government, responsibility for ACTION passed from the Federal Government to the ACT Government in 1989.
ACTION is a business unit of the Public Transport Division of the Transport Canberra and City Services Directorate of the ACT Government. Transport Canberra was formed on 1 July 2016 combining the Public Transport Division and Capital Metro Agency to manage all public transport operations within the ACT.
ACTION operates two separate networks of bus routes: one on weekdays and the other on weekends and public holidays.
Blue Rapid services provide a high-frequency link between the City and the bus stations at Belconnen, Woden and Tuggeranong town centres. Blue Rapid services consist of the 300 series routes (300, 313, 314, 315, 316, 318, 319 and 343) on weekdays and route 900 on weekends and public holidays.