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.
A new idea for a high capacity light rail line. Runs from the new olympic stadium at victoria park to uq or towong, via exhibtion, fortitide valley, and wollongabba stations
Apparently the guy in the video says that the CityGlider buses came from a plan to reintroduce trams. Maybe tram tracks could be built on the CityGlider routes upgrade the buses into trams, with spurs to accommodate for future CityGlider tram routes.
The BCC did a bullshit study that had favoured buses after the events of the ‘BrizTram 99’ proposal failing. Blue team totally against trams from day one, even though is was the red team that closed the trams down in 1969.
The result was the 60 CityGlider.
There was never a plan by blue team to upgrade them to light rail. They only started running arties’ on the 60 about four years ago.
The 60 CityGlider was an attempt at mostly duplicating the original tram route from Orleigh Park to Teneriffe Ferry. It was done to derail critics or any discussions/proposals to bring back trams.
This ‘Brisbane Metro’ is the final iteration of this delusion that buses can somehow compete with and offer better services than light rail, while pretending to act and look like one, when people prefer and want the trams to return to Brisbane.
Tim Atherton.- Yes to Light Rail GClR Stage 4 and…
I’ve just spent a few days in Sydney and had some time to revisit the light rail system. Here’s something for the NIMBY anti-tram naysayers to consider. This tram is travelling on the Randwick line passing though the high density suburb of Surry Hills. Building this line meant reducing the number of car lanes and eliminating parking along the route. The sky didn’t fall in, as some Palm Beach residents would have you believe. Public transport patronage grew as Sydney’s Sydneysiders experienced the comfort and convenience of the trams, people found alternative parking in the side streets, and the urban renewal that came with light rail line turned the area from a congested maze into a vibrant community. With visionary planning and foresight, we can do the same to the southern end of the coast, too.
With the exception of UQ, that route just mirrors locations that are serviced by heavy rail or will be post CRR.