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4xx Express peak outbound via Riverside Expressway

Started by somebody, November 19, 2011, 19:11:21 PM

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Heading over the Merivale bridge the other day noticed (again) extreme traffic congestion on the Riverside Expressway/Coro heading west.  It strikes me that it would be an improvement to continue along George St, into the busway at Turbot St and then use the Skew St portal and Cribb St.  That would also allow running via the Skew St portal inbound as Roma St busway could be served in both peaks.

But even better would be to design the network properly in the first place!  Why would you have medium-slow speed services operating into the CBD in the peak/peak direction?  It's really only because you cannot connect from the routes like the 426 (Chapel Hill rocket) onto a reasonable frequency UQ service, and the 427 (Chapel Hill-UQ) runs infrequently.  Improved direct UQ services would allow connection to the train, which serves every destination on the express route.  Similarly, a Centenary-UQ BUZ would be a good upgrade.

If you took all that to its logical conclusion, then 425/430/45x/460 could become off peak+counter peak only.

Perhaps I'm bus-foaming here, but I don't think so.

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