Core Frequent Network 2011: Frequent Corridors

[#Metro]

Brisbane Frequent Corridors

The Gap - Waterworks Road
Ashgrove/Enoggera/Everton Pk- Wardell Street/South Pine Road
Newmarket- Enoggera Road
Chermside- Gympie Road
Nundah- Sandgate Road
Red Hill- Musgrave Road
Hamilton- Kingsford Smith Drive
Wooloongabba- Ipswich Road
Coorparoo- Old Cleveland Road
Holland Park- Logan Road
Moggill Road- Kenmore

I have made a list of corridors which I believe are core frequent already or are only a handful of upgrades away. Describing the suburb the road is in is a bit unwieldly, as you can imagine, the road goes through many suburbs, but I do not want to spend all day writing which ones they are. Most are familiar anyway.

Please suggest alterations/corrections/additions or deletions. Rail is not included because they will form part of the core frequent network already and do not require legibility improvements on a scale that bus does.

[#Metro]

Examples: Adelaide

A Go Zone is not a route but a zone that offers convenient services every 15 minutes between 7.30 am and 6.30pm Monday to Friday and every 30 minutes at night, Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays* until approximately 10 pm.

http://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/routes/gozones.html

The deficiency in the Adelaide Go Zones is that they do not include weekend services, which drop in frequency to 30 minutes, and their proper scope of hours ends at 6.30pm. Our BUZ is much better, but our BUZ is a route, whereas Adelaide's Go Zones are a bundle of routes with common corridor branding.

I think the branding can be done and co-exist with BUZ if it is done skillfully and carefully.

A massive legibility improvement that makes visible the frequency that is already there.
They should have 5 minutes, 7.5 minutes, 10 minutes, 12 minutes and 15 minute categories.

A 5 minute frequent corridor might be something like Coro Drive...

[#Metro]

http://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/routes/images/gozone_map.gif

http://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/routes/gozones.html

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[somebody]

I think the most criminal part is the Everton Park corridor, which could be sorted with a handful of 359 trips.

[#Metro]

Yes. So close, yet so far away!

I think maybe a BUZ along this corridor could be narrowed down to a BUZ 350 or a BUZ 359?
What were your thoughts on that?

[somebody]

Yes. So close, yet so far away!

I think maybe a BUZ along this corridor could be narrowed down to a BUZ 350 or a BUZ 359?
What were your thoughts on that?

Again: God forbid that there should be two routes which co-ordinate with each other.

Sorry.