CityGlider Feedback

[newbris]

Not commenting on the commuter buz suburbs to city service issue in other parts of bulimba too far away from the citycats, but I find Oxford st pretty easy for a suburb 7km away. The citycat service is so great to use and I doubt we would switch to a long bus route instead. Granted may be different late night or for others but we find the citycat a joy to use as a daytime/early evening service. Such a great trip.

The areas of Ashgrove, Paddington etc have access to BUZ services and possibly even train already, this is little different to saying that 'Bulimba has a ferry'. Sure it has a ferry terminal, but you have a BUZ!!

Secondly, the ferry services catchment doesn't cover a large part of Bulimba, as shown in Gazza's analysis, thirdly it takes a whopping 42 MINUTES journey time to get the CityCat from North Quay to Bulimba Ferry Terminal, and that is without factoring in waiting time, so if we add waiting time that is now + 15 minutes on top of that so that is 57 minutes, add walking - ONE HOUR at least to travel to a suburb that is so close to the CBD - that is absolutely outrageous for an inner city location and I think it would be better to live at Beenleigh and catch the Gold Coast express train because that only takes 45 minutes ex Beenleigh as actually almost the same time taken as catching the ferry to Bulimba!!. The 230 bus only takes 27 minutes to perform the same journey, 40% (or 15 minutes faster than the ferry, assuming that you live right next to the ferry terminal).

Well actually I personally didn't have a buz, a train, a citycat or any way to access Latrobe Tce at Paddington at all before the glider came along (nor they us at Ashgrove) without the in/out journey but regardless I don't think that relates to my comment that I personally wouldn't change to a new bus service to bulimba from the awesome citycat for off-peak leisure travel. You can feel free to do so

With regards your second point I specifically excluded my comment as being anything to do with commuter buz traffic for people away from oxford st. I'm not sure I could have made that any clearer ? It may fully justify a buz, I wouldn't have a clue.

We get the citycat from Riverside to Bulimba usually (or occasionally southbank). It doesn't really bother me as it is a leisure trip but looking it up it is 27 minutes...I would rather longer   We personally wouldn't swap to a bus instead but as I mentioned this was my personal addition to the conversation, rather than a decree of everyones travelling habits. I'm sure other people would be on that bus with you

[skippy]

I've encountered this situation numerous times.  It's silly - the recovery time should be at West End where there is no loop to get stuck half-way along.

Better yet it should just go down Skyring both ways.  The Commercial Road stop at Waterloo/Emporium could just as easily be the 300/306 etc stop on Ann Street, and there are no other stops served between the ferry and this point.

The suggestion for the glider to use Skyring both ways is excellent. An ideal location for a city bound bus stop would be just before the Cunningham St traffic signals - almost opposite the existing outbound glider stop in the heart of the massive Gasworks development. Seems so logical. What is the chance of BCC adopting this?

Better late than never. Can we chalk up another small victory for RBOT?

[ozbob]

Raised awareness ... all good.

Brisbanetimes --> City Glider to be re-routed