We are certainly not using our Infrastructure to its maximum capability and that includes road capacity which is shared with low-capacity cars that congest the lane.
This is certainly step 1 but it is not the "silver-bullet’ that fixes public transport in SEQ. Great and important 1st step but not end-game. It will also free up buses for more frequent services (or new services) in areas that desperately need it.
We should stop comparing Bne and Per. Remember Qld has multiple cities and WA only has to contend with one and the area just south. Plus WA gets a huge slice of the GST funding compared to us.
The only thing that we should copy is efficiency like Driver only operations
So what causes the bottleneck? Lack of trainsets? Lack of stabling capacity?
I thought river crossings were a significant bottleneck?
Neither. The number of trains and buses is determined by the peak hour requirement, when virtually all trains and buses are in service.
When they are not in service, they sit in the rail yard or depot.
What is holding back service is the belief that off peak service is not necessary because demand then is lower.
This ignores the fact that there are more off peak hours than there are peak hours, and thus if you want patronage to go up, you need to boost off peak service.
Peak only represents about 20-30% of all day patronage.
Well researched this video, but could have been better if the paper used ‘Light Rail Downunder - Three Strikes and You’re not out’ was referenced.
