In Hobart, Metro's network extends from Gordon in the southern Channel region, north to Brighton and east to Seven Mile Beach and Opossum Bay with major interchanges in the Hobart, Glenorchy and Rosny Park CBDs and smaller transfer points at Kingston, Howrah, Springfield and Bridgewater. Two high-frequency corridors, branded as Turn Up and Go operate between Glenorchy and Hobart via Main Road, New Town Road and Elizabeth Street, and between Howrah and Hobart via Clarence Street and Rosny Park. On these corridors a service is scheduled to depart every 10 minutes or better in each direction between 7am and 7pm on weekdays.
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Routes for destinations east of Hobart City are numbered in the 6-- series
For express variants of routes, the first digit is replaced with an X.
School bus routes on the western side of the River Derwent are numbered in the 2-- series, and on the east in the 3-- series. For morning services the third digit is odd, in the afternoon it is even.
Cross-town routes that either bypass Hobart City or travel through the CBD without terminating are:
500: Glenorchy - Hobart - Southern Outlet - Blackmans Bay
501: Glenorchy - Hobart - University)
601: Howrah - Rosny Park - Hobart - University
605: Howrah - Rosny Park - Glenorchy
694: Rosny Park - Risdon Vale - Glenorchy
696: Rosny Park - Risdon Vale - Otago/Old Beach - Bridgewater
Some evening and weekend services on the Glenorchy to Hobart Turn Up and Go corridor are operated to/from New Norfolk as route 722 by Kinetic Tasmania as part of a government project aimed at increasing the integration between urban and non-urban services. Since January 2019, non-urban and urban fringe services operated by private companies (Kinetic and Tassielink Transit) from destinations such as the Huon Valley, Sorell, Richmond and New Norfolk have been permitted to pick up and set down passengers travelling wholly within the Hobart urban area.
Launceston
In Launceston, the Metro network is bounded by the suburbs of Youngtown, St Leonards, Waverley, Rocherlea, North Riverside, Blackstone Heights and Hadspen. The major interchange is located in St John Street in the Launceston CBD. Two high-frequency Turn Up and Go corridors are operated. The first is between the university, Mowbray and the CBD via Invermay Road, and the second is between the CBD and Kings Meadows via the Launceston General Hospital, Wellington Street and Hobart Road.
A new public transport network for Launceston and surrounding regions was introduced on 19 January 2020. This review formed part of the Department of State Growth's program of integrating urban and non-urban bus services, and included both Metro and private operators including Kinetic Tasmania, Manions Coaches and Tassielink Transit. Private operators are now permitted to pick up and set down passengers travelling wholly within the Launceston urban area. As part of a process of reducing duplication of routes and services, Metro withdrew most of its services to North Riverside via West Tamar Road and was replaced by Manions Coaches which now includes North Riverside as part of its Legana routes.
Launceston's routes were re-numbered as part of the review in order to fit into a statewide route numbering system developed by State Growth in conjunction with Metro. The route numbers generally form a pattern according to their geographical area:
Northern Suburbs: Rocherlea, Alanvale, Mayfield, Mowbray, University (routes 110, 115, 116, 117)
Eastern Suburbs: Ravenswood, Waverley, St Leonards (routes 120, 121, 122, 130, 131)
Southern & Central: South Launceston, East Launceston, Punchbowl, Newstead, Norwood, Youngtown, Kings Meadows (routes 110, 140, 141, 142, 145, 146, 147)
Riverside & Trevallyn: (routes 150, 151, 152)
Via Westbury Road: Hadspen, Country Club Casino, Blackstone Heights, Prospect (routes 160, 161, 162)
Via West Launceston: Prospect Vale, Summerhill (routes 165, 167)
School buses are numbered in the 800 series but do not follow a geographical pattern.
Metro also operates the Tiger Bus service under contract to the Launceston City Council. In the morning and afternoon peaks a commuter shuttle links the CBD with the Inveresk park & ride car park, while during the inter-peak period the bus alternates between three tourist-oriented routes known as the City Explorer, River Explorer and Gorge Explorer.
Burnie
In Burnie, Metro operates within the urban area from Chasm Creek in the east to Somerset in the west, and within suburban Burnie as far south as Shorewell Park, Downlands, Havenview and Emu Heights. Non-urban services are provided westward to Wynyard, and eastwards to Penguin and Ulverstone. A new network of services developed by the Department of State Growth for Burnie, Devonport and the north-west coast was implemented on 17 January 2021, and introduced Sunday services for the first time to these centres.
Fleet
The MTT commenced operations with 43 trams, 63 trolleybuses and 17 buses in Hobart, 24 buses and 30 trolleybuses in Launceston and 16 buses in Burnie. The MTT's first purchases were AEC Regal IVs. Bedford SBs were purchased in the 1960s followed by Hino BT51s, Leyland Nationals, Volvo B58s, Volvo B10Ms, Mercedes-Benz OH1316s and Scania N113s followed. More recent purchases have been Bustechs assembled locally by Elphinstone Engineering.
In July 1996, the fleet was reregistered off government GV.1234 number plates to the MET.123 series.
As of July 2026, the fleet comprised 235 buses.
Preserved buses
Several vehicles once operated by the MTT and Metro have now been preserved by the Tasmanian Transport Museum and the Tasmanian Bus & Coach Society. These include:
1942 Canton trolleybus #74 - Donated by MTT in 1964 to Tasmanian Transport Museum, in full operating condition.
1948 AEC Regal #16 - Acquired in 1976 by Tasmanian Transport Museum, unrestored.
1953 BUT trolleybus #235 - Donated by MTT in 1968 to Tasmanian Transport Museum, last trolleybus to operate in Tasmania
1971 Bedford SB3 #249 - Donated by Metro to Tasmanian Transport Museum in 1988, in full operating condition. The last bus built by City Bodyworks Moonah
1975 Leyland National #601 - Donated by Metro to Tasmanian Transport Museum in 1992.
1980 Volvo B58 #747 - Preserved By Private Owner, being restored to original livery. First articulated bus in full service in Tasmania. Delivered as fleet number 747 (the original MTT articulated buses carried fleet numbers related to Boeing jets to signify their special status), it spent most of its time in the MTT/Metro fleet re-numbered as 702.
1989 Scania N113CRB #134 - Donated by Metro to Tasmanian Bus & Coach Society in 2010, in full operational condition. Minor restoration ongoing.
1985 Volvo B10ML articulated bus - Donated by Metro to Tasmanian Bus & Coach Society in April 2016, in full operational condition. When donated, was the oldest bus in government service in Australia. Currently being restored to original livery
1991 MAN 10.180HOCL "Busy Bee" midibus - Preserved by private owner. Restoration ongoing
1992 Scania N113CRB prototype Low Floor #200 - Purchased by Tasmanian Bus & Coach Society in March 2017, courtesy sponsorship from Scania Australia. Full restoration complete.
