Torrens Transit Torrens Transit Torrens Transit is an Australian bus service operator in Adelaide. It operates services as part of the Adelaide Metro network under contract to the Government of South Australia. It is a subsidiary of Transit Systems. On 23 April 2000 Torrens Transit commenced operating the Adelaide Metro East-West contract with 255 buses under contract to the Government of South Australia. In April 2005 Torrens Transit commenced operating the North-South and Outer North East contracts that had previously been run by Serco. In July 2011 Torrens Transit commenced operating a new eight-year East-West contract with an optional four-year extension exercisable
Robert Torrens (judge) In 1855-6 Torrens was one of several Irish judges who was threatened with removal from office by the House of Commons as being too old or inform to fulfill their duties properly. The Irish Bar strongly opposed his removal from office, pleading that although he was eighty years of age, Torrens was an exceptionally conscientious and hard-working judge. Torrens protested strongly at the suggestion that he was unfit for office, but in the event he died suddenly at his country house, Derrynoid Lodge, just after the spring assizes in 1856. Like many of the Torrens clan he married a cousin,