Urban Transit Authority

The Urban Transit Authority, a former statutory authority of the Government of New South Wales, was responsible for the operation and maintenance of buses and ferries in Sydney and Newcastle from July 1980 until January 1989.

[2] Urban Transit inherited a fleet 1,680 buses comprising Leyland Worldmasters, circa 740 Leopards, Atlanteans and 657 Mercedes-Benz O305s.

These along with Mercedes-Benz O405s had replaced most of the Leylands when Urban Transit ceased.

The inherited ferry fleet consisted of five ferries dating from the 1910s (Kameruka, Kanangra, Karingal, Karrabee and Lady Edeline), seven Lady class ferries (Cutler, McKell, Woodward, Wakehurst, Northcott, Herron and Street), two Manly ferries (Baragoola and North Head) and five hydrofoils (Fairlight, Dee Why, Curl Curl, Long Reef and Palm Beach).

[3] Urban Transit introduced four Freshwater class ferries for the Manly service (Freshwater, Queenscliff, Collaroy and Narrabeen), two hydrofoils (Manly and Sydney) and nine First Fleet catamarans (Sirius, Supply, Alexander, Borrowdale, Charlotte, Fishburn, Friendship, Golden Grove and Scarborough).