Article: Brisbane needs new plan

[#Metro]

http://www.busnews.com.au/industry-news/1506/brisbane-needs-new-plan/
Date: 22.06.2015

Makes sense

Trad says that adding bus lanes to Brisbane's existing main arterial roads may be better and more financially realistic than completing the Eastern Busway, during her speech at a Queensland Media Club event last week.

BUT then?!?

Trad is heading off on a trade mission to the UK, next month and will be looking to gain ideas on how public transport can be improved in Brisbane and what opportunities exist for local businesses abroad.

"As part of this trip I will visit one of London's leading bus operators Transit Systems," Trad says.

"They are a Queensland-based business that carry 400 million passengers a year and have conquered the London public transport industry.

"I will be asking them what more could government do to help Queensland businesses break into global markets."

The only reason why that Queensland bus company has work in London is because London Transport competitively tenders out the bus routes to anyone competent to run them.

[SurfRail]

Maybe they can ask them what is needed to allow Queensland businesses to break into Queenland markets...

Already a TransLink operator too, just not a bus operator.

I hear nothing but glowing reports about Swan Transit in Perth, and they seem to be doing well enough in Adelaide and Sydney as well.  (Darwin probably too small to have any significance but likely same again.)  Cracking into Singapore is a major fillip for them.

[Stillwater]

If they are a Queensland-based company, why does Ms Trad have to go to London to consult them?

[ozbob]

If they are a Queensland-based company, why does Ms Trad have to go to London to consult them?

Awkward question ... 

Meanwhile ... I've got one!

[SurfRail]

If they are a Queensland-based company, why does Ms Trad have to go to London to consult them?

Neil Smith (the head honcho) is based in London at the moment.

Their head office is actually in Cleveland.