Letters to the editor - Published

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 10th October 2013 page 9

Close call with B-double

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 22nd November 2013 page 9

TransLink fares failure

[aldonius]

North-West News, Nov 27 2013

One from one, feels good

I'm responding to a bloke who appears to have a bad case of express syndrome.

[techblitz]

North-West News, Nov 27 2013

One from one, feels good

I'm responding to a bloke who appears to have a bad case of express syndrome.

Haha..yes saw that post of his..nice response

[aldonius]

Thanks!

It's a very different form to much other written communication, I've found. You need to maintain context quite explicity, and from there it's brevity brevity brevity!

[BrizCommuter]

North-West News, Nov 27 2013

One from one, feels good

I'm responding to a bloke who appears to have a bad case of express syndrome.

Excellent letter!
(Someone send a "I want an express to my stationitis" inoculation to the writer of the original letter).

[ozbob]

Published Queensland Times 9th December 2013 page 9

Fare hikes a disgrace

[ozbob]

A letter to the editor Queensland Times 18th December 2013 page 9

Rising fares drive commuters away

[ozbob]

Queensland Times 23rd December 2013 page 9

Significant year in prospect for public transport changes

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 3rd January 2014 page 9

Transport rises just not 'fare'

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 7th January 2014

Go cards prove best value for all users of public transport

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 11th January 2014 page 15

Rail and bus transport safer than using cars

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Ipswich Advertiser 8 January 2014 page 10

Public transport fee hike

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor CourierMail 20th January 2014

Newman must justify public transport costs

YOUR readers would now be only too aware of the recent public transport fare increases of a further 7.5 per cent which now make public transport even more unaffordable for many.

Over five years, fares increased by an actual figure of 83 per cent for those using a go card and 114 per cent for those using paper tickets. Over the same period, the CPI has only risen by some 9.5 per cent, making public transport increasingly unaffordable for those who have the greatest need to use it.

Over the last two years, the Newman Government has increased the cost of public transport by a total of 15 per cent while over the same twoyear period the CPI has increased by only 3.9 per cent, and pensions by only 3.5 per cent and the minimum wage by a similar amount.

Most lower-paid workers are forced to live considerable distances from their employment and so these disproportionate fare increases impact most on those who can least afford them – workers and those on pensions.

The increases last year of 7.5 per cent saw fare-paying passenger boardings at some Ipswich line stations decrease in excess of 10 per cent with a resultant drop in fare revenue greater than the additional revenue generated by the increased fares.

The Newman Government has espoused at great length that it is minimising the cost of living for the people of this state yet imposes these exorbitant fare increases now making public transport in the Greater Brisbane metropolitan area the most expensive per passenger kilometre travelled.

It will prove interesting for Premier Newman and Transport Minister Emerson to explain how these fare increases are justified.

Allan Ward, North Ipswich

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 21st January 2014 page 9

Huge fare rises hit lower-paid harder

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 22nd January 2014 page 9

Train times leave city ' out in the cold '

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 27th January 2014 page 9

Fare rage is really starting to grow

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 30th January 2014 page 9

Road users called on to improve their behaviour

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 1st February 2014 page 9

Public transport is a vital service

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 3rd February 2014 page 9

Unreasonable fares forcing users off public transport

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 4th February 2014 page 9  NB:  this was written prior to the 12 hour reversal for university students.

Most students on ' Struggle Street'

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 24th February 2014 page 9

Fare evasion, rorting result of our most expensive transport

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 25th February 2014 page 9

Fares hit jobless

It was with great concern I read the lead article in Saturday's QT ' Unemployment rate climbs: job cuts felt in city '. 

Readers might be surprised to learn that Queensland is the only State or Territory in Australia that does not extend concession public transport fares to the unemployed.  This is a double whammy of course in south-east Queensland as the fares on the TransLink network are amongst the most expensive in the world, let alone Australia. 

Many employed workers are already struggling with the high cost public transport fares. 

How will the unemployed cope, particularly if the Prime Minister introduces a ' work for the dole ' scheme?  How will the unemployed be able to afford to get to the ' work for the dole ' locations?

It is time our local political representatives argued long and hard for concession public transport fares for the unemployed. 

This is becoming a critical issue, particularly for Ipswich with our very high unemployment rate.

The silence of our MPs re the failed fare policy generally for south-east Queensland is very disappointing.


Robert Dow
Goodna

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 4 March 2014 page 9

Data kept secret

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 12 March 2014 page 9

Steaming into history

[ozbob]

Letter to the editor Queensland Times 14th March 2014 page 21

Lifting disability access

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 21st March 2014 page 17

Rail fares zone system is in need of a rethink

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 24th March 2014 page 13

Passengers are going off the rails after frequency increase

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 26th March 2014 page 13

Transport data details secret to let 'spin' go unchallenged

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 26th May 2014 page 25

Wait lingers on for action plan on new fare structure for SEQ

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 31st May 2014 page 21

On the Aurizon

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 3rd June 2014 page 13

Failed fare system

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 5th June 2014 page 15

Failed transport system

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 9th June 2014 page 25

Good use of go card

[ozbob]

Letter to the Editor Queensland Times 14th June 2014 page 19

Ekka's transport debacle

[ozbob]

Published Queensland Times 24th June 2014 page 13

Concessionary deal results in 'fare box leakage' for railway

[ozbob]

Published Queensland Times 7th July 2014 page 21

Rorting symptom of failing system

[ozbob]

Published Queensland Times 9th July 2014 page 15

Why is it so difficult?

[ozbob]

Published Queensland Times 14th July 2014 page 21

LNP fails to understand state's jobless need concession fares

[ozbob]

Published Queensland Times 21st July 2014 page 23

Failed fare system knocks the LNP off the rails at ballot box