Gautrain bus schedule

[BCO]

Woot! 1st thread in this section.

Question: can people use the buses without riding on the train? There's a bus that drives right past my house, and another one right past my office, but the Gautrain website's a bit thin on details, so I'm struggling to find out if I could just use the Gautrain buses to get to work.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Seems like it is possible, at R20 per bus trip. You'd have to look at the bus routes to see if the bus that passes your house also passes your office, or if it goes to one of the stations and you need to take a connecting bus to work.

http://www.gautrain.mobi/BusRoutes.aspx

 

[Ninja'd]

F*** me A Gautrain sub-forum

/apologies for the derail.

 

[Superjakes]

The Big one is right - it just seems a bit steep to pay R40 to get to and from work every day. The bus service is effective, though. Oh, and used in conjunction with the train, it is R6 per bus trip. But everybody knew that already, I assume.

 

[BCO]

Seems like it is possible, at R20 per bus trip. You'd have to look at the bus routes to see if the bus that passes your house also passes your office, or if it goes to one of the stations and you need to take a connecting bus to work.

http://www.gautrain.mobi/BusRoutes.aspx

Maybe I'm going full retard here, but where do you see the routes? I don't want to go from one station to another.

 

[AniV]

http://join.gautrain.co.za/map.aspx

Click on the station closest to you. The dropdown will appear and you can select the bus routes to view them.
Alternatively, on the upper right corner of the map click on "Google Map View" and hit the "bus" checkbox. Zoom in to see the bus routes. Voila!

 

[Nerfherder]

You could use the bus service as a normal bus, its more expensive like that though.

If you leave from a gautrain station then it costs R6 (eg) but then if you get on at a bus stop then it costs R20 (eg).
So if you just want to get from one point on the bus route to another its not that cost effective. Unless you stop over at a train station ?

 

[AniV]

You have to have ridden on the train within a certain time before or after getting on the bus in order for it to only deduct R6 instead of R20. If you hop on the bus and off the bus without riding on the train it will cost R20, regardless of where you get on or off. The buses cannot register at which stop you got on or off.