16 Apr 2012: SEQ:Core Frequent Network - Sandgate Road BUZ

[ozbob]

Media release 16 April 2012

SEQ:Core Frequent Network: Sandgate Road BUZ



RAIL Back On Track (http://backontrack.org) a web based community support group for rail and public transport and an advocate for public transport passengers proposes that the 310 Sandgate Road bus be upgraded to BUZ standard as part of the roll-out of a larger Core Frequent Network across Brisbane (1,2).

Robert Dow, Spokesman for RAIL Back On Track said:

"The Core Frequent Network is the minimum basic network of high frequency bus, train and ferry services required to properly connect the CBD with the suburbs, and the suburbs with each other. Rolling out the Core Frequent Network is significantly cheaper than heavy infrastructure upgrades and is rapid to deliver because it requires no new infrastructure. Services on fast arterial roads should be targeted for boosting bus because, outside of dedicated busways, this is where high speed and capacity is available to make public transport very competitive against car travel."

"RAIL Back On Track members propose that the 310 Sandgate bus service, which currently operates at anti-public transport half hourly frequencies during peak hour, and hourly on weekdays and weekends be considered for extension to Cultural Centre and upgraded to BUZ standard (3). As part of this, we also propose the low frequency 306 Nudgee Beach and 322 Chermside bus services be removed from the CBD and terminated at Toombul to feed Toombul Rail station and the proposed 310 Sandgate Road BUZ."

"Although some passengers will have to connect at Toombul, it will result in a much simpler, frequent, cost-efficient, legible and easier-to-remember network that is intuitive to understand. A passenger wanting to go to any address along Sandgate road would simply catch a 310 Sandgate Road BUZ. A city against streamlining and connections is a city also against a simple, efficient and frequent network, as a messy bush of low frequency legacy routes are the direct consequences of failing to review old 'legacy' routes that have long passed their utility (4,5,6)."

"Indeed, it would be helpful to think of the service as an integral part of the arterial road itself. The success of the BUZ 100, which takes a 'no nonsense' route straight down Ipswich Road highlights the utility of this approach."

"Focus on the Core!"

Contact:

Robert Dow
Administration
admin@backontrack.org
RAIL Back On Track http://backontrack.org

References:

1.  Building a Core Frequent Network http://railbotforum.org/mbs/index.php?topic=5173.0

2.  Core Frequent Network Discussion Paper -  less is more http://backontrack.org/docs/bus/cfn_v1.pdf

3.   Should 310 Sandgate be added to the CFN? http://railbotforum.org/mbs/index.php?topic=8128.0

4.  San Francisco: sometimes cuts are an improvement http://www.humantransit.org/2009/11/san-francisco-cuts-for-effectiveness.html

5. "Transferring" can be good for you, and good for your city http://www.humantransit.org/2009/04/why-transferring-is-good-for-you-and-good-for-your-city.html

6.   SEQ: Connections reduce waste and inefficiency in bus network http://railbotforum.org/mbs/index.php?topic=7594.0

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Discussion thread --> http://railbotforum.org/mbs/index.php?topic=8128.0