Atteridgeville Bus Service Is a Pretoria based bus company which was established in October 1988 when the National Department of Transport has implemented the first tender for contract services pilot project.

The project was awarded to Transport Resources Management (Soc) Ltd trading as Atteridgeville Bus Service.

Transport Resource Management was at that stage a subsidiary of Bophuthatswana Transport Holdings (Soc) Ltd which name changed later to North West Star.

The company’s name was changed to Atteridgeville Bus Service (Soc) Ltd during May 1994 when the tender for contract to provide public passenger transport services to the residents of Atteridgeville/Saulsville Suburb was again awarded through the National Governments tender process to the NTI Group of Companies.

In April 1996 the tender for contracts to provide passenger transport services between Atteridgeville and surrounding areas in the Greater Pretoria Metropolitan Council (City of Tshwane) was again awarded to Atteridgeville Bus Service for a five year period ending February 2001.

Since then the ABS contracts were operated on a month to month basis for the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport due to no new tenders were published and adjudicated.

What Services Does Atteridgeville Bus Offer?

The tendered contracts that exist between ABS Ltd and Gauteng Provincial Government represented by the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport for the provision of passenger transport services are as follows:

Contract D28: Provision of Passenger Transport Services between Atteridgeville/Saulsville and Pretoria CBD. Contract D29:

Provision of Passengers Transport Services between Atteridgeville/Saulsville and Western and North Western Areas of the Greater Pretoria.

Contract D30: Provision of Passengers Transport Services between Atterdigeville/Saulsville and Centurion, Midrand and Menlyn.

Currently ABS operates 123 buses, transporting cumulatively 4,2 million passengers over 5,1 million kilometers per annum and employs 241 employees.

Atteridgeville Bus Depot Facility
The Pretoria West facility of North West Star (Soc) Ltd host all the management and operations of ABS inclusive of vehicle maintenance, bus washing, vehicle inspection, fuelling, scheduling, despatching, ticket and fare collection, administration, financial and other related activities.

 

Which Routes Does ABS Bus Operates?

The areas and routes that ABS covers in their contractual agreement can be divided into three different areas covering routes on a predetermined time table prescribed by the Gauteng Department of Transport.

Contract D28: Atteridgeville Bus Provision of Passenger Transport Services between Atteridgeville/Saulsville and Pretoria CBD (Callies and Callies Terminus).

Contract D29: Provision of Passengers Transport Services between Atteridgeville/Saulsville and Western and North Western Areas (Mahem, Wonderpark and surrounding areas) of the Greater Pretoria Area (City of Tshwane).

Contract D30: Provision of PassengersTransport Services between Atterdigeville/Saulsville and Centurion, Midrand and Menlyn.

What Is The Contact Details Of Atteridgeville Bus?

Postal PO Box 19339, Pretoria West, 0117
Physical 137 Industrial Road, Pretoria Industria, Pretoria, 0002
Tel 012 386 4607
Fax 012 386 0627

Head Office
Physical Address
c/o Alwyn & Simon Vermooten Avenue,
Samcorpark,
Waltloo
Tel: 012 803 7870

Waltloo Centre
Contact: Mr Nick de Beer – Senior Manager Operations
c/o Alwyn & Simon Vermooten Avenue, Samcorpark, Waltloo
Tel: (012) 803 7870
Fax: (012) 803 2561

Atteridgeville Bus Babelegi Centre
Contact: Mr Adolph Komane – Operating Centre Manager
Nothwest Star
Stand no. 105 1st street
Babelegi (Hammanskraal)
Tel: (012) 719 8360
Fax: (012) 719 891

Atteridgeville Bus Mabopane Centre
Contact: Mr Ben Ditshego – Acting Operating Centre Manager
Nothwest Star
414 Block N
Main street
Mabopane
Tel: (012) 702 3311
Fax: (012) 702 6847

PTA West
Contact: Mr Thomas Kola – Acting Operating Centre Manager
Nothwest Star
137 Industrial Road
Pretoria West
Tel: (012) 386 0019
Fax (012) 386 0614