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The Transit Australia Group is an Australian bus transport group based on the Gold Coast in Queensland owned by Joe and Tony Calabro.〔(The List ) ''Sunday Mail'' (Adelaide) 26 August 2012 〕 Transit Australia Group owns: *Bustech *Gold Coast Tourist Shuttle *Sunbus Cairns *Sunbus Magnetic Island *Sunbus Rockhampton *Sunbus Sunshine Coast *Sunbus Townsville *Surfside Buslines ==History== After selling their long established south-western Sydney bus operation to Westbus in June 1989,〔"Calabro's Sold" ''Fleetline'' November 1989 page 176〕 Joe and Tony Calabro purchased Surfside Buslines from Greyhound owner Russell Penfold in October 1989 with 56 buses.〔"Stateliner takes over Greyhound" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' issue 5/5 March 1990 page 23〕〔"Surfside Bus Lines" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' issue 6/6 February 1991 page 45〕 The Surfside operation grew with the Tweed Bus Service (1993),〔"Surfside Bus Lines" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' issue 9/5 January 1994 page 40〕 Gold Coast Citybus (February 1995),〔"Surfside Bus Lines" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' issue 10/7 April 1995 page 54〕 Gold Coast Tourist Shuttle (September 1998)〔"Gold Coast Tourist Shuttle" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' issue 14/5 April 1999 page 56〕 and Coomera Bus Lines (May 2001)〔(Major bus buys for Kefford & Hill ) ''Australasian Bus & Coach''〕 operations purchased. The Calabros also formed Bustech, a bus bodying business. In April 2008, the Sunbus operations were purchased from Transit Australia and all of the Calabro's Queensland operations consolidated under the Transit Australia Group. In November 2008 Magnetic Island Bus Services was purchased and in April 2009 the Sunbus Toowoomba operation sold to the Bus Queensland group.〔(Sunbus ) Australian Bus Fleet Lists〕〔(Kynoch Coaches and Sunbus Toowoomba sold to Pulitano Group ) ''Australian Bus & Coach''〕〔(Bus Australia Toowoomba ) Australian Bus Fleet Lists 〕 In April 2010, the Townsville operation was expanded with the acquisition of Hermit Park Bus Service. The Calabro family also own Busabout and Hawkesbury Valley in Sydney and Busabout Wagga Wagga. Although not part of the Transit Australia Group, older buses from the former two have frequently been transferred to Surfside for use as school buses.〔(Surfside Bus Lines ) Australian Bus Fleet Lists〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Transit Australia Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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