The O-Bahn

You’ve gotta do the O-​Bahn. Get on the bus and suddenly find yourself on a rollercoaster! This is guaranteed to either make your hair stand on end or leave you grinning like a halloween pumpkin. It brings out everyone’s inner child.

The O’Bahn is a narrow concrete track which transforms a bus into a train. It’s a pretty journey running alongside, above and generally all over the Torrens River between the edge of town and Tea Tree Plaza shopping mall. There’s no reason for the O’Bahn other than it’s awesome. Why not make a road and only allow buses on it? Because then you wouldn’t have a roller-​coaster for buses and it wouldn’t be awesome.
The idea seems dangerous. If the driver turned the wheel would she flip the bus out of the tracks? And the guide rails cause the bus to vibrate the entire route making it difficult (but not impossible!) to read.
She packs a punch where it counts though: speed. The buses run frequently and the trip takes only 25min (the same time it takes to drive) as the bus isn’t interrupted by traffic and only makes a couple of stops along the way.
Watch out for the teenage pranksters on a Thursday night!

If you’re going to get on public transport it may as well be the ride of your life.
It’s one of those things that I don’t really understand but I’m going to try and explain it anyhow. Its a bus that magically turns into a train and feels like it’s being driven by the hand of my 3 year old nephew. it goes fast to the point where you are sitting there questioning your safety and wondering whether you should be making phone calls to your loved ones. The great thing about the O’Bahn is that it gets you to the church on time zooming along at 100kmh, yee ha.
I think whoever designed this means of public transport was probably kidding around, in fact probably intoxicated which is how the best things are invented.

The O-​Bahn is a 12 km guided busway running from just outside the city through the Northern suburbs to TTP.
Buses can go 100km/​h on the track using guided wheels on a normal passenger bus with limited stops (2 interchanges only).
I’ve been on the O-​Bahn so many times, mostly to get to town on a weekend night with a big group of friends.
It’s fast, dark at night, loud, windy, quick and busy so it provides a good atmospheric ride while semi drunk to town.
Everyone from down South or West always asks ‘what’s the O-​Bahn? Never heard of it.’ But us Northerners know our little secret connecting us to the city and getting us home quickly.