The next region of Brisbane in line for a network review is the Northside under BCCs deal with the Queensland Government.
Delivering for Brisbane: State and Council tap on to new bus deal - Ministerial Media Statements
Please use this topic to provide specific suggestions for the network review team in Brisbane City Council.
As a Northsider, Brisbanes bus network up here definitely needs fixing. It has remained mostly the same for the last 20-ish years, excluding the Northern Busway delivered by Airportlink, and a few route cuts.
Northside def needs a better bus network
The low hanging fruit for the northside is to give the Great Circle Line (598/599) better frequencies (20 minute headways or better), Sunday services, and extended hours of operation late into the evenings.
If you wanted to get to Chermside from Nundah, you’d want to catch the GCL, and not the 320/322, which is otherwise indirect.
If you wanted to get to Chermside from Brookside/Mitchelton/McDowall, you’d wanna catch the GCL, and not the 354, which is even MORE indirect.
Want better bus connections to rail? Give 369 Mitchelton to Toombul via Stafford some proper frequencies (every 15 minutes all-day), among a myriad of other routes.
Another recommendation I have is that route 360 Brookside to City should terminate at Enoggerra train station. It’d improve its on-time performance significantly. Perhaps one day 325 Boondall/335 Sandgate will be truncated too, but I feel like those two would spark significant public outrage.
Just a few things from my neck of the woods. Eliminate the 379, 382 and 383 completely. Boost 380 and 381 to every 30 minutes clockface all day, mainly to provide 15 minute service along waterworks road in ashgrove, but also boost area and to make the timetable more usable off peak. Routes don’t need changing.
Boost 362 frequency to at least hourly and have some attempt to align schedules with the train at keperra station.
385 unchanged except for starting approx 15 - 30 minutes earlier on weekdays.
384 unchanged except for maybe a couple more services. (it’s surprisingly popular).
61/maroon city glider extended enogerra train station and align the stops with the 385 at suncorp stadium/paddo tavern. Make sure the timetable of the 61/385 means they don’t go through bardon and paddington at the same time, space them out a bit.
372, 373 and 377 not really sure what to do with because they all suck, but serve a niche purpose, don’t justify frequency boosts, but also don’t service to be fully culled.
needs to be some kind of enogerra or mitchelton to UQ service at decet frequency
Given this statement is from the previous Labor government, can we realistically expect it to happen?
It’s contractual, so it’s fairly likely to happen.
Figured I’d add this here:
I’d better get started on writing the left/rights for the routes I’ve put together for the northside so they can be mapped, pronto!