FACT SHEET
WestMAC Bus Network – Private Chartered Bus Service
General Information West Moreton Anglican College (WestMAC) offers a private chartered bus service for the exclusive use of WestMAC students, providing families with the option of private bus passage for their children. There are ten bus routes servicing suburbs from Brisbane, Ipswich, Scenic Rim and Lockyer Valley regions, which are subsidised by the College to ensure affordability for families. Families whose children travel on the WestMAC private chartered bus service are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the bus routes and schedules, available on the College website. The bus routes indicate all streets/roads etc that the bus travels along. Buses drop off students in the morning (AM) and pick up students in the afternoon (PM) at the designated WestMAC Bus Zone located on Keswick Road, beside the Keswick Road undercover courts. In the PM, all buses are anticipated to depart the College at 3.10pm sharp, so students need to be at the bus zone as soon as classes are dismissed, to avoid the risk of missing their bus. For our secondary students who have their last class on the far side of the College, a five-minute early pass or bag pass, can be provided to students, to assist them in making their bus on time. This can be arranged through their Sub-School reception. If pre-arranged by parents with the Head of Junior School, Prep students can be escorted to Keswick Road Bus Stop by the Teacher Aide and be placed into the front row behind the driver on the bus each afternoon. Prep students will walk down to the Prep Classrooms in the AM if arriving by bus unescorted. Buses will not deviate off the designated route without prior authorisation from the College, with the only exception being unforeseen circumstances i.e. flooded roads, traffic accidents etc. If a bus does need to be rerouted, an alert via the RollCall App will be issued as soon as possible from the College. The College will assess and update bus routes when necessary. WestMAC buses are distinctive, white in colour and wrapped in large WestMAC signage. The WestMAC bus zone is monitored by staff both morning and afternoon to assist students as they arrive or depart the school grounds. The bus zone is an all-weather protected area for students to wait comfortably for their buses. Families should allow for possible disruption to the scheduled route times for the first weeks of each school term, due to back-to-school traffic congestion. In the AM students are advised to be at their stop prior to the scheduled departure time. Actual departure times may vary by up to 10 minutes, depending on traffic congestion or other delays. The Map on the RollCall Parent Mobile App allows parents/students to follow their bus in real-time, to see how far away the bus is from their bus stop (see further details below). Students can interchange between the buses, depending on their travel needs.
Accessing the Bus AM Travel The bus drivers drive the route and students or parents hail/flag the driver down, so they know to pull over. Buses will stop at the designated, timetabled Translink Bus Stops, but students/parents must be alert and look for the approaching bus, as they do need to hail/flag down the bus driver in the AM. If there are no designated Translink Bus Stops in the near vicinity, buses will stop along the route, but only if it is safe to do so. Students are asked to arrive at their Bus Stop in the AM 10 minutes prior to the timetabled arrival time to ensure they are at their stop ready for when the bus arrives.