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9 Mar 2013: SEQ: Brisbane: Simplicity, Frequency, Reliability - Bus review

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Media release 9th March 2013



SEQ: Brisbane: Simplicity, Frequency, Reliability - Bus review

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 has highlighted recent media about bus network changes.

Robert Dow, Spokesman for RAIL Back On Track said:

"We have received material distributed by certain Brisbane City Councillors who are attempting to block changes that will allow decent, more frequent and reliable services and block the outer suburbs of Brisbane from receiving simple, frequent and reliable service to the Brisbane CBD."

"We believe the current bus network is unsustainable. It is operationally unsustainable because adding more and more buses to the system is causing huge congestion and delays in the city centre as a certain Brisbane journalist found out last week. It is financially unsustainable because we cannot keep paying ever increasing fares, amongst the world's highest, and also some of the world's highest taxpayer subsidies for services that leave some Brisbane Suburbs such as Bulimba, Centenary and the Northwest in the dark."

"Brisbane's failing bus network presently prioritises transporting air over transporting passengers."

"For example, under the network reforms, route 105 will be removed from Yeronga. This bus operates hourly. Under the Go Frequent Network, residents of Yeronga will, at minimum, be able to catch a bus every 15 minutes, from 7 am - 7pm, 7 days. Not only will students and pensioners benefit, but  everyone else will too. This will save 45 minutes on journeys to the CBD, simply through the reduction of waiting time. The residents of Centenary and Northwestern suburbs such as Albany Creek get Go Frequent Network services for the first time ever."

"We believe the Go Frequent Network, funded from recycling waste, duplication and inefficiency in the current bus network will give the city the simplicity, frequency and span of service that we need."

"We have heard the reforms referred to as 'profits before people'. Nonsense, as the public transport runs at 75% subsidy - there is no profit-  and the Brisbane network is one of the most subsidised systems in the world. Continuing the current failing network could well see the return of 15% fare rises or higher."

"The current bus system is anti-patronage and doesn't serve the needs of the city. We look forward to a simpler, frequent and more reliable network."

References:

1 San francisco: loss of empty buses mourned
http://www.humantransit.org/2009/12/san-francisco-loss-of-empty-buses-mourned-as-usual.html

2. "Transferring" can be good for you, and good for your city
http://www.humantransit.org/2010/05/basics-should-we-redesign-our-bus-network-and-how.html

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

Contact:

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