confusion over zones

[justanotheruser]

On my way to work today I happened to look at a translink network map. It says the zone boundary between zones 1 & 2 is at Royal Childrens Hospital. It used to be at the Royal Brisbane & Womans Hospital stop. Can anyone confirm if this has changed as they are two seperate stops.

If they have changed where were the announcements. I hate to think a person would be fined for having the wrong ticket because for years the boundary was in one spot and has now moved.

[O_128]

I wish zone one was actually made bigger.

[dwb]

they both may be zone 1/2 ie it calculates the lower number of zones for the direction of travel... eg zone 2-5 or zone 1-1 although i'm not entirely sure.

[stephenk]

Normanby, RCH Herston, and RBWH are all on the zone 1/2 border. However QUT Kelvin Grove is in Zone 1.

Whilst on the subject of the new CityTrain/Busway map, it is complete mess south of the river. Please Translink - redesign the map, rather than trying to shoehorn the new Boggo Rd busway (and failing miserably) into the existing map.

[O_128]

Normanby, RCH Herston, and RBWH are all on the zone 1/2 border. However QUT Kelvin Grove is in Zone 1.

Whilst on the subject of the new CityTrain/Busway map, it is complete mess south of the river. Please Translink - redesign the map, rather than trying to shoehorn the new Boggo Rd busway (and failing miserably) into the existing map.

haha i noticed this aswell complete mess. it needs a zoom bit on the cbd

[justanotheruser]

Normanby, RCH Herston, and RBWH are all on the zone 1/2 border. However QUT Kelvin Grove is in Zone 1.

Wow that makes alot of sense. One stop is only zone 1 while the stops on either side are both combined zone 1/2. I must admit I didn't look at the other stops as it is RBWH that I go to occasionly and where I used to work so that is what I looked at. I wonder if it is a sneaky way to change the zones on us. Maybe when they fix it it the new boundary will be close to the city.

[justanotheruser]

I wish zone one was actually made bigger.

Zone 1 is a decent size on the trains. I used to know a guy who worked for translink (possibly still does) who told me when the system first came in they deliberately didn't produce combined zone maps so people would not realise bus and train zones are different. Where I lived at wynnum was zone 3 on train but zone 4 on the bus. We didn't realise for six months when we caught a bus into the city for once. Where I live now is zone 6 for trains but zone 7 for buses.
Does anyone know if the go cards have been fixed to treat trips as transfer in these cases when going from bus to train or vice versa?

[WTN]

Zone 1 is a decent size on the trains. I used to know a guy who worked for translink (possibly still does) who told me when the system first came in they deliberately didn't produce combined zone maps so people would not realise bus and train zones are different. Where I lived at wynnum was zone 3 on train but zone 4 on the bus. We didn't realise for six months when we caught a bus into the city for once. Where I live now is zone 6 for trains but zone 7 for buses.
Does anyone know if the go cards have been fixed to treat trips as transfer in these cases when going from bus to train or vice versa?

Zone 1 is indeed quite sizeable with trains compared to buses, probably because trains don't stop as often as buses.  But some bus transfers require you to travel to zone 1 even if you start and end in other zones, eg SE busway <-> Gold Coast Line used to require a change at Southbank, SE busway <-> 199 West End require change at Cultural Centre. 

The go card system appears to treat cross-zone transfers as normal transfers with the correct zonal fare deducted at the final destination.  I tried it at least once with the "discrepancy" at Milton.