On the Buses

[ozbob]

Caught route 66 today at about 1:30pm and it was a Metroliner, so much for all the advertising around using low floor 18.5m buses .  On top of that, some passengers got stranded at QUT KG Busway Station on the inbound at about 2:30pm, and it isn't even start of the semester yet!  Yes, the 393 went flying past, empty, while everyone on the platform waited for a late running 340 and late running 66.  Sigh.

Oh and the PIDS weren't working either, totally blank.

World class effort that one ...

[Arnz]

Caught route 66 today at about 1:30pm and it was a Metroliner

Hmm thought 66 was a Garden City dedicated route.  I'm assuming Sherwood probably picked up some 66 work as of yesturday's opening of the new depot.

[Golliwog]

Used UQ lakes around lunchtime today. Stop D has been broken into 3 sections, and incoming buses are stopped just after the bridge by a traffic controller to tell them what route they will be leaving as. Adjacent to stop E, they have set up 5 queues with a route number for each. The traffic controller walkie talkies a person at the front of the queue who then releases the appropriate mob of students. The person controlling the queues also announces that pax for stops served by the 29 should move across to stop E. Some do, some don't but the 29's I saw leaving had pretty decent loads. My 109 back still dropped a couple of people off at Park Rd and PAH.

[BrizCommuter]

Caught route 66 today at about 1:30pm and it was a Metroliner, so much for all the advertising around using low floor 18.5m buses .  On top of that, some passengers got stranded at QUT KG Busway Station on the inbound at about 2:30pm, and it isn't even start of the semester yet!  Yes, the 393 went flying past, empty, while everyone on the platform waited for a late running 340 and late running 66.  Sigh.

Oh and the PIDS weren't working either, totally blank.

World class effort that one ...

BrizCommuter is intending on photographing the carnage at QUT KG when the students are back next week.

[ozbob]

Caught route 66 today at about 1:30pm and it was a Metroliner, so much for all the advertising around using low floor 18.5m buses .  On top of that, some passengers got stranded at QUT KG Busway Station on the inbound at about 2:30pm, and it isn't even start of the semester yet!  Yes, the 393 went flying past, empty, while everyone on the platform waited for a late running 340 and late running 66.  Sigh.

Oh and the PIDS weren't working either, totally blank.

World class effort that one ...

BrizCommuter is intending on photographing the carnage at QUT KG when the students are back next week.

Thank you ...

[Fares_Fair]

Caught route 66 today at about 1:30pm and it was a Metroliner, so much for all the advertising around using low floor 18.5m buses .  On top of that, some passengers got stranded at QUT KG Busway Station on the inbound at about 2:30pm, and it isn't even start of the semester yet!  Yes, the 393 went flying past, empty, while everyone on the platform waited for a late running 340 and late running 66.  Sigh.

Oh and the PIDS weren't working either, totally blank.

World class effort that one ...

BrizCommuter is intending on photographing the carnage at QUT KG when the students are back next week.

bustage?

trainage?

[STB]

I can tell you there will be Busrage if it takes up to 20mins or more just to board a bus at QUT KG again this year!

[somebody]

I can tell you there will be Busrage if it takes up to 20mins or more just to board a bus at QUT KG again this year!

Which there is almost certain to be.

[achiruel]

Currently, on a 160 o/b, maybe 15 pax onboard. Seems like a bit of an air parcel for peak hour.

[Golliwog]

If I remember and am at uni long enough, I'll try and take some shots of the queue set up in action. I expect delays once the bus stop is in heavy use.

[STB]

Route 599 failed to show at Murrarie this morning at around 9am (or I just missed it as it ran early??).  Ended up taking two hours to get from Wellington Point to Carindale as I ended up having to catch a train to Buranda then change onto a 222.  And no, there isn't a connection between route 254 and 250 to Carindale at Capalaba, nor is there under the new timetables, unless you want to wait 20mins.

[Otto]

Drivers runprints do not have a passing time for Murrarrie.. 599 can sit at Cannon Hill up to 15 minutes on Sat Mornings since the Gateway and old Airport roundabout have been fixed.

[somebody]

Drivers runprints do not have a passing time for Murrarrie.. 599 can sit at Cannon Hill up to 15 minutes on Sat Mornings since the Gateway and old Airport roundabout have been fixed.

At the risk of repeating myself, why is the information regarding timing points not available to commuters?

[Otto]

Drivers runprints do not have a passing time for Murrarrie.. 599 can sit at Cannon Hill up to 15 minutes on Sat Mornings since the Gateway and old Airport roundabout have been fixed.

At the risk of repeating myself, why is the information regarding timing points not available to commuters?

I guess that's one for TL to answer... As a driver, I have no answer.

[SurfRail]

http://www.transperth.wa.gov.au/timetablePDFs/Eastern%20100%2020120219.pdf

Not only are the timed stops identified with a system-wide consistent symbol, but their 5-digit code is listed in the timetable as well.

As usual, rank amateurism here, consummate professionalism there.

[somebody]

http://www.transperth.wa.gov.au/timetablePDFs/Eastern%20100%2020120219.pdf

Not only are the timed stops identified with a system-wide consistent symbol, but their 5-digit code is listed in the timetable as well.

As usual, rank amateurism here, consummate professionalism there.

I don't know about you, but it seems to me that is exactly what the Brisbanites want.

I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but my point is: "Why ask for professionalism if it won't be popularly supported?"

[Otto]

I am so much looking forward to my time in Perth to see how it's done there..

[Fares_Fair]

I like your statistics in your signature Otto. 
Not the actual statistics per se, but the fact that they are there.

[Gazza]

With those 5 digit codes, when you SMSed them to the Transperth number you got the next 5 departures instantaneously in a reply.

don't know about you, but it seems to me that is exactly what the Brisbanites want.

I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but my point is: "Why ask for professionalism if it won't be popularly supported?"

How do you mean? How does the average Brisbanite, who may not be a graphic designer or whatever, express that Timteables here are harder to read.
Refer to this article:

http://transporttextbook.com/?p=1694

I

n conclusion, what are the kind of public transport 'hot spot' remediation projects could be developed through crowdsourcing? The kind of things people notice on their daily journeys to work and home? The right-turn lanes that continually block trams on Royal Parade in Parkville for example? The flat junction at Caulfield that delays Pakenham and Frankston line trains? The long-standing temporary speed restrictions between Strathfield and Ashfield that makes every late running CityRail suburban and Interurban express train from the North, South and West later still? The way the traffic light cycles on King William Street make the tram little faster than walking in the Adelaide CBD? People know this and feel this on their journey, but they don't know how to express it in technical terms. If only they could tell someone who could, then perhaps this learned helplessness and resignation to things always being this way could be overcome.

[ozbob]

London's new buses --> http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9698000/9698602.stm

[somebody]

How do you mean?

What I mean is rank amateurism is what is accepted as normal here.  And if you don't like it, says the Brisbanite:
(a) "Why are you complaining about this"
(b) "Maybe you should go somewhere else"

[STB]

Drivers runprints do not have a passing time for Murrarrie.. 599 can sit at Cannon Hill up to 15 minutes on Sat Mornings since the Gateway and old Airport roundabout have been fixed.

One would've thought that Murrarie station would be a timing point, being an opportunity for people to transfer at Murrarie station.  Same goes for every other route that runs by a railway station, even if it doesn't actually stop in the carpark.

EDIT: Just a heads up that I may be a bit scarce over the next few months, with university starting (with 2 advanced production units thrown in), a TV show I'm producing, and have been asked to help and join a team of Producers and Crew for a live broadcast during the state election.

[ozbob]

Bell St Ipswich, changed street-scape



Photograph R Dow 27th February 2012

[O_128]

Buses backed up from mater past buranda 

[ozbob]

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If you're wondering about our double-decker bus, Hornibrook are trialling it on route 315 between City & Redcliffe - http://t.co/sLgvXkvq

[Golliwog]

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If you're wondering about our double-decker bus, Hornibrook are trialling it on route 315 between City & Redcliffe - http://t.co/sLgvXkvq

I thought that was going down to the GC? Or is this a second one?

[SurfRail]

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If you're wondering about our double-decker bus, Hornibrook are trialling it on route 315 between City & Redcliffe - http://t.co/sLgvXkvq

I thought that was going down to the GC? Or is this a second one?

The bus currently at Hornibrook is Surfside no. 343, which is the first one and the bus which was actually running route services down here.  There is a second one (the red one) which belongs to the manufacturer Bustech and was recently in Sydney and Canberra.

More are apparently still coming, although there is nothing on the production line yet.

The 315 is a very good choice to trial it on - occupies less road space than a 14.5m tag axle or 18m artic (Sandgate Rd is verrrry narrow closer to town), no significant clearance issues like the busway tunnels to negotiate, and the service is mainly pick up going in from Redcliffe and set down going out there again so the dwell times are not as much an issue.

[STB]

Just come back from having lunch and doing my final 10th quick trip to/from QUT KG to Roma Street and back.  Arrived on the platform at about 12pm and there were just under 100 students waiting on the platform.  A 393 went flying past at about 12:05pm (completely empty), and then 5 minutes later a fully loaded 333 pulled up and a half loaded 66 turned up (the 66 being a metroliner - Sherwood Depot), both were not long buses.  Lets just say that the 66 was absolutely packed to the brim with students even ending up on the stairs and there were still some that were left behind.

[STB]

Oh one other thing, instead of the PIDS at QUT KG showing the estimated time of arrival, it just had 'Please see paper timetables for bus times' for both platforms.

[HappyTrainGuy]

Has any of the busway stations had their schedulled arrivals fix yet? Its been a while since I've looked at the RS/CC/SB screens and had to remember to subtract 11 minutes to get the correct time

[STB]

This was posted by a QUT student (not me!) on a QUT Facebook page which I just had to share.  Says it all really.

[Gazza]

Got a link? 

[STB]

Got a link? 

Nah, unfortunately it's a closed Facebook group, and so closed up in fact that I had to get someone I know from the uni to add me, I couldn't find it in the search box.  It's a QUT Memes page run by the students poking fun at the quirks of QUT, hence I think they'd rather keep the actual location to QUT students only.

[Mr X]

I was bored

[#Metro]

AHAHAHAHA

[somebody]

Is the option of getting a 390/345/359 to Kelvin Grove Rd very useful to many?  I imagine only if you are heading to that side of the campus.

[STB]

Is the option of getting a 390/345/359 to Kelvin Grove Rd very useful to many?  I imagine only if you are heading to that side of the campus.

Not unless you have classes in the Creative Industries preceint, or you are willing to walk up THE HILL, which is quite well known and hated by both students and staff alike.

[Gazza]

Someone (not me) put this on the UQ memes page:

[#Metro]

I think we should use memes more, they obviously get around pretty easily...
We can have all sorts of fun!

[#Metro]