Outer Suburban Public Transport

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Posted by RAIL - Back On Track on Friday 26 April 2024

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Brisbanetimes --> The outer Brisbane growth areas being left behind on public transport $

Households in the four outer urban councils forming Greater Brisbane have less than half the access to frequent public transport than their more central city neighbours.

A new report on urban liveability across mainland Australia's state capitals has drilled down into the gap between established and growing parts of the greater city regions.

Across six measures of health, walkability, social infrastructure, open space, affordable housing, local jobs, and public transport, one of the starkest Brisbane gaps was on the latter.

While 53 per cent of Brisbane City Council households had access to what was dubbed regular public transport, only 20 per cent of those in Ipswich, Logan, Redland and Moreton Bay did. ...

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^ Essentially, an hourly service isn't considered "regular" public transport by this group's metric.

Even if that hourly service applies for one hour on Sunday morning.

The outer suburbs are a long way from quality public transport - so far that this report doesn't measure any kind of constructive goal to work towards.

I'm actually surprised the BCC number is so high.