september 2010 parent cdc victoria service area geelong service type bus operator routes 10 fleet 85 november 2015 website www.cdcvictoria.com.au cdcgeelong cdc geelong formerly known as benders busways is an australian bus company in geelong operating routes under the geelong transit system umbrella as well as charter work . it is a subsidiary of comfortdelgro cabcharge . contents 1 history 2 livery 3 routes 4 fleet 5 references 6 external links history edit volgren bodied volvo b10ble in benders livery february 2007 benders busways was formed by ernest and aimee bender in 1926 . the first route ran from geelong to chilwell and in 1931 a second route commenced from the geelong post office to the corner of minerva road and aberdeen street in geelong west . the closure of the geelong tram system in 1956 saw benders win the contract to serve the former tram routes with buses . eighteen new buses were purchased to run the increased number of services . in 1987 benders purchased ij cook & son . in june 2000 the bender family sold benders busways to the kefford corporation . 1 in february 2009 the kefford corporation was sold to comfortdelgro cabcharge with the sale including benders busways for a 149.2 million . 2 3 at the time kefford was the fourth largest bus operator in victoria with a fleet of 328 buses and six depots and with a market share of 16 % . on the 14 july 2014 cdc announced that benders busways would be re branded as cdc geelong . 4 livery edit volgren bodied scania k230ub in october 2010 cdc geelong volvo b12r pmca apollo seen at marshall station in march 2016 . when the geelong transit system gts was first introduced in 1983 5 buses operated by benders on route services were painted in the blue stripe and white gts livery . however the contract with the state government requiring benders to use the gts livery on its urban route buses expired in 2000 and under the subsequent contract the company s buses all reverted to benders former white and green livery . in august 2014 cdc victoria announced that it had started to use the recently introduced public transport victoria livery on its buses replacing the former benders livery 6 and cdc geelong buses providing public transport services were progressively repainted . routes edit route route details 1 deakin university to north shore railway station 10 lara south to lara railway station 11 lara east to lara railway station 12 lara west to lara railway station 20 geelong railway station to corio via the old melbourne road 22 geelong railway station to north shore railway station via ballarat road and anakie road 23 corio to north shore railway station 24 geelong railway to north geelong railway station via west fyans st minerva road vines road and seperation st 25 geelong railway station to bell post hill via autumn street and ballarat road 43 geelong railway station to deakin university via highton fleet edit as at november 2015 the cdc geelong fleet consisted of 85 buses and coaches . 7 references edit geelong info benders busways . retrieved 2007 07 26 . updates & news . kefford corporation . archived from the original on 2009 04 03 . retrieved 2015 11 20 . smith chris 2008 12 20 . kefford group finds a buyer . australasian bus and coach . bauer trader media . retrieved 2015 11 20 . a brand new look for cdc victoria . cdc victoria . archived from the original on 2014 08 04 . retrieved 2015 11 20 . ptua press release bring back the booklet . retrieved 2007 07 26 . cdc geelong launches ptv livery on new buses . cdc victoria . retrieved 2014 09 28 . cdc group benders geelong . australian bus fleet lists . bus australia . retrieved 2015 11 20 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to buses in geelong . company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cdc geelong & oldid 738632792 categories bus companies of victoria australia transport in geelonghidden categories use dmy dates from november 2013use australian english from november 2013all wikipedia articles written in australian englishcommons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages add links this page was last modified on 10 september 2016 at 04 43 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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