b7rle in canberra in november 2009 slogan it s all about q parent comfortdelgro cabcharge headquarters queanbeyan service area queanbeyan jerrabomberra canberra bungendore alliance transborder express routes 11 fleet 91 december 2013 website www.qcitytransit.com.au qcity transit formerly deane s buslines is an australian bus operator which provides services within the queanbeyan jerrabomberra region of new south wales as well as services from queanbeyan to nearby canberra and bungendore . it is a subsidiary of comfortdelgro cabcharge . history edit australian bus manufacturing bodied mercedes benz o405nh at canberra city bus station in january 2009 in 1977 doug lever purchased the long established queanbeyan to canberra quolding brothers operation . in july 1990 lever coachlines route bus operations were sold to dennis deane trading as queanbeyan canberra bus service . 1 2 deane was already established in canberra having purchased the canberra and snowy mountains business of pioneer trailways in april 1989 with 17 coaches . 3 in march 1992 the sydney canberra snowy mountains service was sold to australian coachlines with queanbeyan canberra bus service rebranded as deane s buslines . deane was the son of ron deane who operated clipper tours deanes coaches and south trans in sydney . over the next few years deane would purchase most of the school bus operations in the surrounding area including those of lever coachlines in 1994 federal highway bus co in july 1995 and murrays in november 1997 . 3 in december 2001 edwards bus service eden and merimbula was purchased and became deane s buslines south coast . this business was sold in 2005 to deane s daughter and son in law jamie and anton klemm but continued to operate under the deane s buslines name until february 2013 . 4 in july 2008 transborder express which operates yass to canberra services as well as charter and school services was purchased from max williams 3 5 to form deane s transit group . the transborder business was gradually combined with deane s buslines including the closure of transborder s depot in mitchell act with all vehicles transferred to deane s depot in queanbeyan . in september 2012 deane s transit group was sold to comfortdelgro cabcharge . 3 6 in july 2013 the queanbeyan services of deane s buslines were rebranded as qcity transit with the transborder express name reinstated for the yass to canberra services . 7 it is now known asqcity transit . fleet edit as at december 2013 the qcity transit fleet consisted of 91 buses . 8 references edit pioneer tours australian bus panorama 6 3 october 1990 page 42 pioneer tours fleetline october 1993 page 17 a b c d deane s transit group queanbeyan canberra australian bus march 2013 page 10 sapphire coast buslines australian bus fleetlists transborder bus takeover boosts deane s fleet to 120 canberra times 19 august 2008 knaus christopher 3 august 2012 . foreign firm to pay 53m for qbn buses . canberra times . retrieved 4 october 2012 . canberra comfortdelgro cdc group qcity transit & transborder express queanbeyan australian bus fleet lists v t e public transport in canberra bus operators action qcity transit royale limousines transborder express ticketing myway interstate coach operators greyhound australia murrays nsw trainlink v line rail operators nsw trainlink air operators qantas qantaslink virgin australia virgin australia regional airlines infrastructure belconnen bus depot belconnen community bus station canberra airport canberra railway station city bus station cohen street bus station jolimont coach terminal tuggeranong bus depot tuggeranong bus station woden bus depot woden bus station proposed additions capital metro government territory & municipal services directorate retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title qcity transit & oldid 737090895 categories bus companies of new south walesbus transport in canberrabus transport in new south walesqueanbeyanhidden categories use dmy dates from november 2013use australian english from november 2013all wikipedia articles written in australian english 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 languages add links this page was last modified on 31 august 2016 at 18 19 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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