IIRC those were two of the oldest buses in the Kinetic Gold Coast’s fleet. I’d suspect they were transferred to Kinetic Sunshine Coast (Caloundra depot) to live out it’s final years before they are eventually withdrawn from service as more electrics arrive.
That 2000th Volgren went to KBL and is now running in Moreton Bay area. The blue is really growing on me, complements the optimus bodies nicely I think.
Image credit: Archie Stubbings
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Moved.from CRR
That’s alright. Translink flogged their logo from USDOT and recoloured it (or should that be recolored?)
TransLink Vancouver pre dated Translink!
Was down on the Gold Coast yesterday and saw a CDi in the new livery:
Additionally have seen online that 16 new TMR buses (Blue livery) have entered service at the council’s Sherwood depot this week.
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Interesting that the Qld Gov branding has been applied to the top replacing the Kinetic logo. 
Yeah I don’t really like how the logo looks up there.
Kinetic Surfside has been hard at work slowly painting buses with the new livery, mostly focusing on Molendinar units.
Kinetic has been sold anyway to TPG.
I’ve been seeing the new teal painted Volgrens in and around the place this week. One was running on the 196 route.
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translink has removed the stupid LNP branding from the system map.
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Why was it there in the first place???
New LNP gov changed the branding rules to require all departments to ditch their own colours, logos, etc in favour of the QLD coat of arms, a suspiciously familiar shade of blue, and include the slogan ‘Delivering for Queensland’ on all communications (even down to things like email signatures). For an example check out the QLD gov website. Since Translink maps are technically official communications, the logo went on them as well.
Obviously I’m not going to post internal comms on the forum, but someone else on Reddit appears to have already done it for me if you wanted a bigger write-up of the changes. There were also a few media pieces floating around when this was announced, particularly in regards to getting rid of acknowledgements of country.
Another repainted unit for Kinetic Sunshine Coast. Have to say a fresh lick of paint makes these old clunkers look pretty good.
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Not my photo but found this online - translink teal starting to pop up in the regions.
There’s something… off…. about this one though. The font on the side seems too skinny and the front logo is wrong?
Front logo is a bit strange. Usually it uses dark blue for both the logo and text. The side is less strange though. They probably don’t want the logo cut off by the petrol (or oil?) inlet.
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Are we assuming TL is starting to unify its bus liveries (at long last) and have teal outside of BCC?
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Even BCC is getting some teals courtesy of the buses on loan from TMR. They’re all at Sherwood depot afaik.
I’m all for unification to the teal livery; including unifying BCC too!
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I don’t know, the bcc bus scheme is iconic, its even in Bluey
Look, as long as I can determine if it’s a TL bus I’m all for it.
The main colours I believe they use atm is the teals, the greens and the BCC liveries
The old Surfside yellow is still getting around on a few units on the Gold and Sunshine Coast and some smaller operators are still doing their own thing but we’re slowly getting to a unified colour scheme.
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