414/415 bus routings

[#Metro]

Route 414 and 415

Special considerations

* Geography: The area is hilly and buses may have trouble accessing some streets
* Steep streets need stops that are closer together because walking is more difficult
* Limited turns/access into Moggill Road at certain points

FlexiLink would make short work of these limitations, apart from the limited turns

http://translink.com.au/resources/travel-information/services-and-timetables/timetables/080519_414,415.pdf

[#Metro]

Look at how easier life becomes when you just ask people to interchange.

Catch any bus or train that stops at Toowong or Indooroopilly and then change. You won't be waiting long- high frequency connecting
services such as BUZ 444 are at either end of this route.

In fact this sentence ^^^ and the like should appear in bold the timetables of feeder routes.


Route 414 can be much faster and direct if it went straight up Carmody and Swann road, right into Whitmore, straight down whitmore, left into Alpha and terminated at Toowong bus loop. So you can get to both the Toowong shops (popular local destination for shopping, work, eating in the evening, good bus and rail connections) and UQ. In fact, you can catch this bus at any point and get to UQ. If you live nearer to Toowong you can connect to 412. (Alternatively Carmody Rd service could be removed altogether, as people will probably walk to 411 and 412 for the improved frequency. People will walk further to high frequency.)



Route 415 could be cut right back and turned into a feeder service.
You could probably then double the frequency of this bus route at minimal or no extra cost using the time that would normally be spent
driving to the CBD or sitting on Coronation Drive in congestion on more frequency.

The route has been ironed out to go via Toowong Shopping Centre, Sherwood Road, Miskin St, along Stanley Tce, Hillsdon St, Stanley St, Indooroopilly Shops and Indooroopilly Rail. Two large activity centres at either end of the route. Up on the hilly side of Toowong, flexilink can operate but only as far as an interchange point (Toowong, Rail stations or Indooroopilly). By using FlexiLink in tandem with a fixed bus rotue service, welfare and coverage goals are met much better, plus the fixed bus route is liberated from welfare routing to allow it to become faster, cheaper to run and rake in the cash.


This will result in a slight decrease in frequency on Coronation drive- but the reduction would be imperceptible as there are heaps of buses on Coronation Drive and if people catch 444, the frequency of that can go up, counterbalancing the reduction. It also means larger vehicles (arctics/tri-axles) can be used on 444, which improves efficiency, something desperately missing from the network.

Isn't it about time TransLink put its foot down and cut the waste and inefficiency that results from Brisbane's Transport's apparent anti-interchange philosophy. At a time when 15% annual fare increases and ever increasing subsides are required to prop up low frequency, slow, illegible, windy routes that provide terrible service that makes customers literally furious when they (try to) ride the service...

[somebody]

Not a fan.  Basically you are removing the Stanley Tce-UQ connection.

As for the 415, I still think combining with the 470 is the answer.

[#Metro]

There are more than 200 bus routes in Brisbane. Bluntly, you are not going to BUZ even an insignificant portion of those. Currently only ~ 6% of bus routes in Brisbane are of BUZ standard, yet these carry the lions share of patronage in Brisbane.

We need FREQUENCY & SPEED NOW and the quickest way to do that is to start making connections and cut the direct trip.

No, the routing does not remove the UQ Connection. You an still get to UQ by connecting at Toowong to BUZ 412 or at Indooroopilly to 427/428/432.

[Jonno]

Our bus rooters need rationalization and ironing.  Connections is the way of the future