8 Oct 2012: SEQ: Time for some action on the Melbourne St Busway portal ...

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Media release 8th October 2012

SEQ: Time for some action on the Melbourne St Busway portal bottleneck

RAIL Back On Track (http://backontrack.org) a web based community support group for rail and public transport and an advocate for public transport passengers calls for the State Government to commit to action to resolve the regular bus jams.

Robert Dow, Spokesman for RAIL Back On Track said:

"Currently, buses bound for West End prevent buses from accessing South Bank for a significant portion of the traffic light cycle.  This causes a bank up backing across Grey St and preventing buses from leaving the platform at the Cultural Centre (1)."

"This would not apply if West End bound buses, and the 202 bus did not traverse Cultural Centre platform two.  That would also remove a phase from the traffic light cycle at Merivale St and Melbourne St.  Almost everyone would have a net win from this change (2)."

"Similarly, outbound rocket services go out with low loadings for reasons we have detailed recently, basically because of poor city stop locations (3)."

"These problems also occur outbound in the morning peak and intermittently through the day."

"There is little excuse for allowing these problems to continue almost every work day. Bus passengers are becoming frustrated with the constant bus-jam and delays."

References:

1. http://youtu.be/NI78HLqoJHM From Friday 5th October 2012 around 17:45

2. Cultural Centre platform 3 proposal http://railbotforum.org/mbs/index.php?topic=7286.0

3. End the 'radical experiment' of divided city bus stop locations http://railbotforum.org/mbs/index.php?topic=8073.0

Robert Dow
Administration
admin@backontrack.org
RAIL Back On Track http://backontrack.org

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