ANZAC Day 2015

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http://translink.com.au/travel-information/service-notices/41521/details

ANZAC Day public holiday timetable

Last updated: 4.29pm Wednesday 8 April 2015

On Saturday 25 April most bus, train, ferry and tram services will run to a Sunday/public holiday timetable, due to the ANZAC Day public holiday.

Extra services will operate to get people to and from the ANZAC Day Dawn Service in Brisbane's CBD and other ANZAC Day events.

Free travel to and from ANZAC Day ceremonies in South East Queensland, will be provided to the following people:

    current serving Australian Defence Force personnel in uniform
    veterans in uniform or wearing service medals
    veterans' spouses and famiy members wearing service medals
    women and children participating in official proceedings wearing the full, official uniform representing Scouting, Girl-Guides and Military associations.

[ozbob]

Check this out   ..

Perth for interest ..

>> http://www.transperth.wa.gov.au/Journey-Planner/Events/anzac-day-2015-9540

Trains

As train services for the Dawn Service are expected to be very busy, we strongly encourage all passengers to plan ahead and catch the train as early as possible to avoid missing the service. We will be operating additional trains with extra capacity for the event, with trains arriving in the city from 3.20am.

    Midland Line - departing Midland Station every 10-minutes from 3.00am
    Armadale Line - departing Armadale Station every 15-minutes from 2.56am
    Thornlie Line - departing Thornlie Station every 15-minutes from 3.20am
    Fremantle Line - departing Fremantle Station every 10-minutes from 3.00am
    Mandurah Line - departing Mandurah Station every 10-minutes from 2.36am. Shuttles from Cockburn Station will depart every 10-minutes from 3.52am
    Joondalup Line - departing Butler Station at 2.42am, then every 10-minutes from 3.02am. Shuttles from Whitfords Station will depart every 10-minutes from 3.55am.

[950]

Presumably learning from "the giants" back in February, where a full-length train every 15 minutes wasn't clearing crowds nearly well enough.

And it's free travel day as well for everyone, not just for current and former service personnel as was usual in previous years. Again probably after the giants, where the ticket machines were totally inadequate to handle passenger numbers while SmartRider would often be more expensive (the family ticket is cash-fare only).

[ozbob]

Sent to all outlets:

27th April 2015

Comment on public transport inadequacy for Dawn Service.

Greetings,

Inadequate bus and rail services were made available for transporting patrons into the Dawn service in Brisbane.

Only one train service per line effectively in Brisbane.  Compare Brisbane to Perth.  Perth had trains running every 10 / 15 minutes.

>> http://www.transperth.wa.gov.au/Journey-Planner/Events/anzac-day-2015-9540

Trains

As train services for the Dawn Service are expected to be very busy, we strongly encourage all passengers to plan ahead and catch the train as early as possible to avoid missing the service. We will be operating additional trains with extra capacity for the event, with trains arriving in the city from 3.20am.

     Midland Line - departing Midland Station every 10-minutes from 3.00am
     Armadale Line - departing Armadale Station every 15-minutes from 2.56am
     Thornlie Line - departing Thornlie Station every 15-minutes from 3.20am
     Fremantle Line - departing Fremantle Station every 10-minutes from 3.00am
     Mandurah Line - departing Mandurah Station every 10-minutes from 2.36am. Shuttles from Cockburn Station will depart every 10-minutes from 3.52am
     Joondalup Line - departing Butler Station at 2.42am, then every 10-minutes from 3.02am. Shuttles from Whitfords Station will depart every 10-minutes from 3.55am.

Buses are simply not able to transport crush crowds effectively.  Rail should have been boosted with service frequency and more shuttle buses running to trains that do have the capacity.

Another excellent example of failure by TransLink and the Queensland Government, and the contempt shown to public transport in SEQ.

Best wishes
Robert

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

[ozbob]

. @TransLinkSEQ PT arrangements for the massive crowds for dawn service this morning are inadequate. More trains & buses are needed #qldpol

— Robert Dow (@Robert_Dow) April 24, 2015

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Twitter

Katherine Feeney ‏@katherinefeeney 2h

The DP apologises for lack of bus services on ANZAC Day #qldpol

The DP apologises for lack of bus services on ANZAC Day #qldpol pic.twitter.com/Z1Ipbftse3

— Katherine Feeney (@katherinefeeney) April 27, 2015

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