The return of the Nightrider

Used it once in 2010 – Happily pissed as a nitt with some workmates who live around Spence, Macgregor areas.

It was fine.. a bit of a long trip home becuase a bogan breader was having a shouting match against a guy in a $5 hipster suit.

If anyone thinks a nightrider bus trip home is bad they’ve never been sandwiched into a Toyota minivan with 11,000 Vietnamese people in 35% heat between Hanoi and Ninh Binh

They should market this with a pic of the Hoff.
I would love to see him ‘plastered’ on the side of the bus

Holden Caulfield said :

I couldn’t see this bit in the press release. I assume it was just an administrative oversight:

I am the Nightrider! A fuel injected suicide machine. I am the rocker! The mighty hand of vengeance who needs no road worthy!

(He’s just a Holden…so let’s be kind about his fixation.)

I couldn’t see this bit in the press release. I assume it was just an administrative oversight:

I am the Nightrider! A fuel injected suicide machine. I am the rocker! The mighty hand of vengeance who needs no road worthy!

Throw in a complimentary doggy-bag and it will be a hit!

What is wrong with you people. This is how the nightrider works:

1) chick with 80’s style hotness (big hair, plastered on makeup) experiences some contrived problem, confides in Michael Knight (the Hoff).
2) Hoff makes inept attempt to solve problem, makes it worse and/or ends up getting into trouble himself.
3) Awesome talking pontiac firebird comes to the rescue, while making catty remarks.

Dunno what all this talk about multiple passengers is, the pontiac appears to be a 2 seater.

With targa tops.

DrKoresh said :

Has anyone here ever actually used the nightrider service and can explain how it works? I’m confused as to where it drops its passengers off and such, considering there won’t be any connecting buses to get them home. I tried to figure it out several years back with some mates but for some reason we weren’t able to.

I used it once, a couple of years ago. You take a bus that’s say going to Gungahlin (if that’s where you live) and you tell the driver where you need to get to and he/she works out a route (worked out on where other are going as well) and drops you usually a few streets away. The trick is to stay sober enough to remember where you live and then be able to walk a few blocks to your house!

DrKoresh said :

Has anyone here ever actually used the nightrider service and can explain how it works? I’m confused as to where it drops its passengers off and such, considering there won’t be any connecting buses to get them home. I tried to figure it out several years back with some mates but for some reason we weren’t able to.

Each Nightrider bus serves a wide area, e.g. “Gungahlin”. When you get on you tell the driver where you want to get off — generally a bus stop, not necessarily “your stop” but one close by, probably on a major road or at a landmark like a local shopping centre. Depending on where you live, the resulting route could meander through six suburbs before reaching yours, but you’ll get home eventually.

The first time I caught one, years ago, the driver took a stupid route because he went wherever who was yelling the loudest told him to go. Last time the driver had a map and worked out a route as people got on, which went very well.

Glad to see it running again.

Has anyone here ever actually used the nightrider service and can explain how it works? I’m confused as to where it drops its passengers off and such, considering there won’t be any connecting buses to get them home. I tried to figure it out several years back with some mates but for some reason we weren’t able to.

Great idea…Just advertise it’s extistence and the changes to it properly- better patronage last year due to increased TV, print, radio ads- halving the fare couldn’t have hurt it either..