Triangular route from Coro

[somebody]

Currently, many inbound buses from Coro to Queen St Bus Station route via Grey St, servicing the Cultural Centre and through Queen St to the King George Square Bus Station turnaround back in to stop at QSBS B.  It would be somewhat faster to simply run up Skew St into the busway and serve Roma St Station into Queen St Platform B, and then retain the via Cultural Centre routing on the outbound.

[david]

Sounds great! My only concern is whether the Go Card can handle having a "non-terminating/loop" service like this

[Golliwog]

Hmmm? My understanding is that for the go card, this shouldn't matter. The go card just records which stop you got on/off at. It shouldn't matter if it doesn't have a technical "terminus" although if it did have to have one you would probably pick the CC. They had a number of routes that did something similar in Nottingham, although they would have to sort something out with what happens (and how do you distinguish) between a bus that is coming in, doing the loop and going back out, and a bus that comes in does the loop/part of it but is then either going back to the depot or to a different route. I don't know if they did in Nottingham, I think the driver usually just asked nicely for everyone to hop off, although the loop they did was small than this and didn't have a river in the middle, and I think they may have also just had it timetabled so there was another bus pulling in just after that to take over.

[ButFli]

Sounds great! My only concern is whether the Go Card can handle having a "non-terminating/loop" service like this

428 and 432 have a loop at Chapel Hill and Kenmore respectively. 196/197 have loops at both New Farm and Fairfield. There must be other examples, too.

[somebody]

I thought this would receive more opposition.  I can guess who the only one who is against it is.

[#Metro]

Not me. I didn't vote! 

[longboi]

I'm for anything that takes pressure off the Cultural Centre.

[somebody]

To those who voted "Death to this feeble plan", what's the big deal?  If you are seeking to interchange to a southside route heading inbound, just do it in the city* instead of the Cultural Centre.  If you want to come from a northside train then you can stay on the train until South Brisbane or Toowong.  If you are coming from a northside bus which doesn't serve the Cultural Centre, you would need to double change in this direction, I guess.

* - Yes, I know this has limitations in problematic city stop locations.

[somebody]

Ozbob, does a 9 vs 2 result in a poll make something the position of RailBoT or RailBoT members?

[ozbob]

Seems fine by those who are interested and voted. Why are they not doing it now?

[somebody]

Seems fine by those who are interested and voted. Why are they not doing it now?

Might I suggest because the inbound route cannot be duplicated on the outbound and vice versa.

[ozbob]

And some planners don't like that I assume.  Worth raising though.

[somebody]

I suppose I would need to post something on the alternatives:
1) Re-routing the inbound services via the Go Between Bridge. The downsides of this option are that you cannot serve the Cribb St stop inbound, and you still need to use the KGSBS bus turnaround heading inbound which is slow.  And you also could not serve the Boomerang St stop if that were returned to service.
2) Using Adelaide St and (probably) bypassing the Cultural Centre.