I suppose there are Olympic venues past Carindale, but there are none at the Airport, or Chermside, or Logan.
The 192 that goes to the city stops at Dutton Park Place, 196 is also nearby on Gladstone Road. Honestly I wouldnāt be surprised if the numbers boarding at Dutton Park pale into comparsion with the busway stations the Metro services. Also, if youāre going to uni, you might as well take advantage of walking over the bridge or riding a bike, the bridge was purposely built to be multi model, that is bus and active transport.
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Exactly how will this fit into an already congested to the max busway? Unless it goes to UQ but even then it needs to get through Buranda!
There are posters around UQ campus for a campaign to upgrade the Dutton Park stop for the M2. I canāt read the paywalled article, but from a few years of observing that stop I suspect it is not about people travelling to/from UQ but about people who were driven to the Dutton Park place stop to get the 66 northbound. These people would now have to change at Boggo Rd. Thereās no homes near the stop but there would be a small number in walking distance where that stop is closer than walking to the 196 stop or Dutton Park or Boggo Rd stations.
I have also seen students get the bus from UQ Lakes to Dutton Park Place in the evening who are picked up at the nearby parking bays. On weekdays there are frequent non-metro services they could get from UQ to Dutton Park so it may not affect them, but the service to that stop is much lower on the weekend than it was with the 66.
They wonāt extend the platforms for a handful of people. They will just tell these people to change.
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Well, for a Metro service to get to Capalaba it must first get to Carindale, so consolidating the 200, 204 and 222 would be a start.
(Iām not sure any of those are run with artics today?)
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Nah, only 14.5 TAGs on the 222 and sometimes on the 204. The 200 gets regular size CNG MANs most of the time.
Just give some of the artics to Carina. They deeply need them.
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Yes, they have good service with the non metro routes. Seems bit of a beat up.
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The article didnāt really add up. Why not just catch the next bus to Boggo Road and change? Thereās a bus every few minutes.
Itās giving off odd vibes. Is someone perhaps running a sort of campaign?
Havenāt you heard? People in Brisbane are allergic to transfers.
Yes. Not sure who it is, but Iāve seen posters around trying to get TL/BCC to revert to the old network, because it had far fewer transfers.
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Does anyone have an image of these?
There were a lot of comments for that story saying exactly that. Itās not like people at Dutton Park Place are waiting an hour for a bus - thereās a bus stopping there every 5 minutes or so, and almost all of them go to Boggo Road (or UQ Lakes) for M2 transfer.
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I think the Lord Mayorās comments didnāt help saying to walk to UQ Lakes. Gave the impression there was no useful service at Dutton Park place and missed the opportunity to highlight the ease of transfers between high frequency services.
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Not sure why this Dutton station exists other than a park n ride since not much is in the vicinity or the housing is closer to other stations as well.
I do suspect that people prefer to transfer on a more legible network irrespective of mode. Few choices and easier to determine which route to transfer.
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If they want to turn it into a parkānāride, maybe turn the land where them huge substations are under the bridge into a real parkānāride facility by having carparks?
The petition is here: Metro Stop for Dutton Park Bus Station | Petitions | Brisbane City Council
415 signatures.
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In hindsight, I reckon they shouldāve sent the 192 into Yeronga itself, and told those wanting to go to the PA Hospital to interchange, rather than the current situation of the 107 going through Yeronga and the 192 bypassing the guts of Yeronga, which was originally proposed.
The locals in the feedback I read from the network review seem to want both locations and have their cake too with the network, ie: wanting to have a one bus journey for both UQ and PA Hospital and the Mater Hospital.
As a side note, I wouldnāt be surprised if coming up to the next election an opposition party might put up a policy of reverting to the old network if elected. I havenāt heard anything yet, but it would not surprise me if this happens.
The two local councillors from Tennyson and The Gabba (Nichole Johnston and Trina Messey) are the two kicking up the fuss. There is also a BCC petition.
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The local red team has been kicking and screaming on social media about the new network, with them bafflingly supporting the horribly inefficient hourly services to the city.
Again: the problem isnāt about transferring but how infrequent the feeders are still.
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