Macleay Island Bus Service | School transportation service

Macleay Island Bus Service

Phone: 0738207815

Add/Update information

Reviews

Tags

• Businesses
• Travel and transport
• Transport service
• School transportation service

25.01.2022 Distracting your bus driver is dangerous for everyone on board. See it from their side.

24.01.2022 We would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! Thank you for your support in 2019 and we look forward to travelling with you again in 2020!

23.01.2022 We would also like to thank the SMBI Little Bus for helping us out with getting the students of Macleay Island home yesterday and with our runs this morning. We are waiting on our new radiator to arrive hopefully today.

23.01.2022 We would like to thank the SMBI Little Bus and Bay Island Early Learning Centre for helping us out with getting the students on Macleay Island to school this morning. We had some engine troubles at the jetty on the last run this morning. Hopefully it should be all fixed by this afternoon.

22.01.2022 Thank you to the Macleay Island Bowls Club for helping us out this morning with our primary run. Our bus had engine problems this morning.

19.01.2022 School Bus Services on Macleay Island will be continuing next week. Despite some confusing media headlines, schools are open next week. Schools have not been closed (apart from a few private schools who have already started holidays early). Premier Palaszczuk said in her press conference yesterday that schools are to remain open for all children of essential workers. Importantly, she defined essential workers as anyone who has a job. When referring to whose children c...ould still attend school next week, she said, Its not just our health workers, its not just our emergency service workers, its not just our police workers it involves anyone in our workforce including people who stack shelves at Coles and Woolies and work in a range of different industries. So, most people are allowed to send their children to school. We will still be running our school buses for those parents who need our service up until the last day of school. We are continuing our extra cleaning and sanitizing regimes to keep everyone as safe as we can. See more

15.01.2022 Our School Services continue to run next week. The following guidelines have been provided by Translink regarding School Transport: Following the re-commencement of regular schooling, children attending school classes will be exempt from the requirements for social distancing. While travelling to and from school on dedicated school transport services (which transport only school children), these services are not required to include any specific measures for social distancing.... Please see https://translink.com.au/service-updates/273996 for more information. We will not be carrying adult passengers (apart from school teachers) until further notice.

15.01.2022 Exciting News! You can now apply online for School Transport Assistance on Macleay Island School Bus. https://www.qld.gov.au//apply-for-school-transport-assista

12.01.2022 Geoff and Sandra hard at work producing school bus passes last night! From Wednesday the Macleay Island bus driver will be issuing bus passes to all students who have been approved by Queensland Transport for free travel on the school bus. Your child will be required to carry their pass with them at all times when they are travelling on the bus and present it to the driver upon entry to the bus. If your child does not receive a pass but you have submitted a form, the driver ...will have a list of those students in the bus and they may travel for free until QT notifies us of their approval. We will then issue them with a bus pass. As there are thousands of forms to be processed by QT at this time of year, it can take some time for the approvals to come back to us, so we allow your child to travel for free once you have submitted your form. Thank you to all parents who have submitted forms for their child to travel on the bus. If you have not handed your form to the driver, then, as of next week (24/2/20), your child will not be able to travel on the bus unless they pay a fare of $1.00 per trip (i.e. $2.00 return). See more

11.01.2022 All school students travelling on school buses need to abide by the Code of Conduct for School Students Travelling on Buses. This has been issued by Queensland Transport and you can find it on www.transport.qld.gov.au/buscode. Please read through this with your child and ensure they understand their rights and responsibilities and the behaviour expected of them whilst travelling on the school bus. The consequences of failing to meet the behaviour expectations outlined in the code are clearly stated. This may mean that your child will be refused travel on the bus for a period of time, if they are unable to meet those expectations. These consequences will be strictly enforced for the safety and enjoyment of all bus travellers.

10.01.2022 The new radiator arrived and our fantastic mechanics worked tirelessly to get it fitted. Our Blue Bus is back on the road! Thank you to Club Macleay, SMBI Little Bus and the accommodating Mike Tungate for all their help.

10.01.2022 We would like to once again thank the Macleay Island Bowls Club for helping us out with the bus runs this afternoon and tomorrow. We are waiting on a new radiator from Sydney to arrive to fit to our bus. Its been feeling the heat like us!

05.01.2022 Happy to report that the minor issue with the bus is fixed and all Macleay Island school runs this afternoon will run as normal.

04.01.2022 A reminder that tomorrow (Friday 4th September) school bus runs on the island will not be operating due to the Professional Development Day for Education Qld teachers.A reminder that tomorrow (Friday 4th September) school bus runs on the island will not be operating due to the Professional Development Day for Education Qld teachers.

03.01.2022 School Bus Services on Macleay Island are running next week as school will be resuming for Term 2. We will be sanitising and cleaning the bus as per usual and applying social distancing as much as possible.

03.01.2022 This week the bus driver is issuing bus passes to all students who have been approved by Queensland Transport for free travel on the school bus. Your child will be required to carry their pass with them at all times when they are travelling on the bus. If your child does not receive a pass but you have submitted a form, the driver will have a list of those students in the bus and they may travel for free until QT notifies us of their approval. We will then issue them with a bus pass. As there are thousands of forms to be processed by QT at this time of year, it can take some time for the approvals to come back to us, so we allow your child to travel for free once you have submitted your form.

02.01.2022 Welcome back to a new year of travel on the Macleay Island School Bus! Bus passes will be issued to all students who have been approved by Queensland Transport for free travel on the island school bus in the next couple of weeks. If you were approved last year in most cases you will carry over from last year and do not need to reapply. If anything has changed (eg school, address, etc) you will need to reapply. Your child will be required to carry their pass with them at all t...imes when they are travelling on the bus. If your child does not receive a pass but you have recently submitted a form, the driver will have a list of those students in the bus and they may travel for free until QT notifies us of their approval. We will then issue them with a bus pass. As there are thousands of forms to be processed by QT at this time of year, it can take some time for the approvals to come back to us, so we allow your child to travel for free once you have submitted your form. Please look after your pass and secure it to your bag, as a replacement one will cost $10. You can apply for your childs bus pass online this year! See www.qld.gov.au/SchoolTransportAssistance or call 1300 119 289.

01.01.2022 All tours will pick up at the Redland Bay jetty for Macleay Island residents.