Ferry System Re-build

[somebody]

I can't believe they bothered.  What a waste of money!  Mater Hill and South Bank busway stations provide a more convenient service to nearly everyone in the area.

[ozbob]

"While River Plaza will fill a missing link, the reality is that it is only serviced by the smaller CityFerry service and attracts less than one customer per journey."

And they pulled buses at Ipswich and Goodna?   Crikey ...

[#Metro]

Ugh! This is the ferry equivalent of the welfare routing!

Good grief! A rally over a SYMBOL of mobility. Even if daily patronage grew by 500 % it would not be much.

There are better things to spend the money on, like getting rid of slow but quaint CityFerry and replacing it with a faster CityCat line that is integrated but separate from the current runs. or a bridge!

Tourist attraction? If that's what its for it should be taken out of the commuter network and made a dedicated tourist service with tourist fares.

http://www.humantransit.org/2009/04/the-disneyland-theory-of-transit.html
http://www.humantransit.org/2009/12/san-francisco-loss-of-empty-buses-mourned-as-usual.html

Nordahl's book is also a fine example of the great fallacy of transit tourism.  Political leaders frequently take junkets to other cities, ride those cities' transit systems as tourists, and then come home proposing to build the same kind of service.  But our values as tourists are different from our values as commuters:  We enjoy riding the Ferris wheel, but that doesn't mean we'd enjoy commuting on one.  There certainly are times when we travel in our home city in a recreational way, with the primary goal of pleasure, but most of the time we really need to get somewhere, because a treasured or necessary part of our lives is on hold until we do.