Article: What about us?

[ozbob]

From the Sunday Mail 15th January 2012 page 35

What about us?

[ozbob]

More details --> here!  Page 14

[O_128]

HAHAHAHA, sucked in Brisbane

[Gazza]

A major political issue, clearly Quirk.

Umad Hobart, Darwin and Canberra?

[Arnz]

In before Messoir Bligh rabbits on about how could Australia Post ignore Queensland's 'World Clarse' PT Network  

[HappyTrainGuy]

Is that a maglev bus I see on the adelaide stamp?

[STB]

Is that a maglev bus I see on the adelaide stamp?

Tis a bus on the O-Bahn - rail guided busway.

[HappyTrainGuy]

Ahhh..... Adelaides version of maglev 

[BrizCommuter]

The Doomben Line not featured in the stamps? Shocking! 

[#Metro]

The Doomben Line not featured in the stamps? Shocking!

Where is Car Rapid Transit?

[Fares_Fair]

What, no stamp for the Sunshine Coast either ...  

Regards,
Fares_Fair.

[Mr X]

Or bus 314 

[p858snake]

"Only 5 stamps in the series"

Aren't stamps sold in things of 10?...

[O_128]

should of done a RAV4 for brisbane, our most popular form of transport 

[cartoonbirdhaus]

should of done a RAV4 for brisbane, our most popular form of transport 

Or a Kermit-green ute with a Southern Cross sticker on the back window.

[ozbob]

or a picture of the Cultural Centre bus jam would work well too ...   

[morb]

What are these "stamps" you speak of?  It is an app?

[BrizCommuter]

or a picture of the Cultural Centre bus jam would work well too ...   

[Fares_Fair]

Hey, how about a Sunshine Coast rail bus?  

Part of the 'slow boat to China' series.

[Jonas Jade]

How about just a CGI render of CRR - and the next transport series can be "wishful thinking"

[Fares_Fair]

What are these "stamps" you speak of?  It is an app?

Refer to the newspaper article at top of this post, literally postage stamps.

Regards,
Fares_Fair.

[HappyTrainGuy]

What are these "stamps" you speak of?  It is an app?

[Mr X]

or a picture of the Cultural Centre bus jam would work well too ...   

Someone should do a mockup of that 314 route blade sign that was posted. World clarse indeed!

[Arnz]

The Doomben Line not featured in the stamps? Shocking!  

Lucky it's not a World Clarse Maglev to Doomben, right  

[Arnz]

Hey, how about a Sunshine Coast rail bus?  

Part of the 'slow boat to China' series.

Could always post the ol "pie carts" from the TAG company (Surfside and Sunbus) 

[mufreight]

The Doomben Line not featured in the stamps? Shocking!

Where is Car Rapid Transit?

Mr Fraser put it (the CaRT) in front of the horse   

[Cam]

or a picture of the Cultural Centre bus jam would work well too ...   

I've been in that very situation when a connection has been late. Almost half an hour wait & then it stops all stations to Ipswich. It was no laughing matter at the time.

If I'm ever in that situation again, I can now split the waiting time by catching a Richlands service to Darra. 15 mins in the CBD & then 15 mins at Darra.

[morb]

What are these "stamps" you speak of?  It is an app?

The cheque's in the mail, HappyTrainGuy.  Wait, what?  Ohhhhh.

More seriously, it's hard not to lampoon Cr Quirk's fuss over stamps when he doesn't even have a Twitter account.

Not to mention that little kids think magazines are broken, and that the "Save" icon is increasingly meaningless

[frereOP]

Is that a maglev bus I see on the adelaide stamp?

Tis a bus on the O-Bahn - rail guided busway.

Yeah, from the city to Modbury.  Its a busway like ours except the road has been replaced by concrete rails.  The bus has little horizontal guide wheels on either side at the front.  Once on the O-bahn, the driver stops steering and lets the bus be guided by the rails but still operates the throttle and brakes.  The drivers love it because they can sit back and let it all happen (like a Shinkansen Motorman, or an MRT driver in Singapore).  Probably costs a hell of a lot less to build per km than Brisbane's busways too!

[somebody]

Probably costs a hell of a lot less to build per km than Brisbane's busways too!

How do you figure this part?

[SurfRail]

Yeah, from the city to Modbury.  Its a busway like ours except the road has been replaced by concrete rails.  The bus has little horizontal guide wheels on either side at the front.  Once on the O-bahn, the driver stops steering and lets the bus be guided by the rails but still operates the throttle and brakes.  The drivers love it because they can sit back and let it all happen (like a Shinkansen Motorman, or an MRT driver in Singapore).  Probably costs a hell of a lot less to build per km than Brisbane's busways too!

Debateable.  About the only advantage is absolute top-end speed, which is not significantly greater.  They have had huge problems with getting non-Mercedes buses to work on it adequately, which gives it all the worst characteristics of a monorail/Translohr type system where you are locked into a particular supplier.  As MAN and Scania have won all the recent Adelaide tenders on a competitive basis, they have shot themselves in the foot.