Bus jam inbound this morning from South Bank at least (I was on the train so all I could see). Three M2s in the queue from South Bank station to the Melbourne St portal. Such a farce.
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As someone who does the Boggo Rd to UQ trip each day, I suspect the number of M2 passengers is a combination of larger numbers travelling to UQ each day (thereās a return to high levels of on-campus students, and students attend more often early in the semester), as well as more people using the M2 because it provides the increased capacity on that end of the route to UQ. Most people boarding at Boggo Rd will get on whichever bus has space for them.
I also observe a lot of students who are new to Brisbane, or new to buses, who use an app and only catch the bus number listed in the app, ignoring other buses going to the same destination. If the app tells them to get the M2 from Boggo Rd to UQ, some students will ignore the other buses going to UQ until the M2 arrives. I suspect over the semester they will get to learn that the other buses also go to UQ.
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This is actually one of the failings of the many route use of the busway! Instead of catching the 1 or 2 routes to UQ people use an app to find the next bus but that can ignore the other bus that comes first.
Just another example to support BRT route design. The M1 should run east west along Old Cleveland Rd not duplicate the M2.
Hi,
As someone who commutes by bus to UQ, I can tell you that running the m1 from southeast busway onto old clevelend road would be a disaster.
I am first going to assume that in your scenario the m1 would replace the 209 and 28 routes since you want to decrease the number of routes. I am also going to assume the m1 would run from eight mile plains to carindale by turning off the southeast busway onto the eastern busway towards stones corner.
Having the m1 routed this way would turn buranda station into a gaping hole for the entire busway network. A lot of students either get on a bus at Buranda, or to either the east (Stones Corner, Coorparoo, Carindale, etc), or from the south (sunnybank, eight mile plains, loganholme, etc). This scenario would mean that students at Buranda would either have to get on the 169 or 139 bus, of which only 1 even operates on weekends, or go all the way to mater hill to get on the m2, while any students south of Buranda would have to transfer to the 169 or 139 bus at Greenslopes or Holland park west which donāt have any transfer connections to rail, local, or just non busway bus routes at least to my knowledge, or they would have to go all the way to mater hill to cqtch the m2, and they wouldnāt be able to use the m1 since it would have to turn off the SEB before Buranda station, and since the m2 has to turn off before Buranda station to go to the university it canāt stop at Buranda either. While anyone coming from the east would also have to spend about 10 minutes going away from the university to greenslopes and then backtracking back up the busway on the 169/139 to get to the university.
All together this would mean forcing everyone who wants to go to the university who is not coming from the north or west of the university to get onto the 169 bus which runs much less frequently than either metro routes, while also screwing over everyone to the east of Buranda with backtracking, while also at the same time forcing them and those at the student accommodation thatās built on top of the buranda station onto the 169 bus with everyone else who is not taking the m2 at mater hill. It would also prevent translink from removing a bunch of bus routes including the 169 and 139 which would still be needed, and would still also go to the university which would still confuse students who donāt realize that those buses also go the university.
Had my routes ass about
The m2 should run from UQ (or beyond) to Cleveland.
The m1 runs Eight Miles Plains (only because there was not foresight to run to Springwood or beyond) to RBWH.
North needs a change (oh the horror) at Buranda as does the South (same platform)
29 can stay until the Wooloongabba m2 inline station is built
The metros seem to have the chime enabled again, heard it on every one Iāve been on today.
9038 also in service since yesterday.
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Thatās good as I was going to ask about that, because the last few times I had caught it they werenāt on. 
M1 doesnāt run to RBWH - like the 111 it only goes as far as Roma Street.
But it should.
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I believe the recharger is located at Roma Street. Not sure if there is one at RBWH?
Thereās at least one Metro layover bay in Ernieās Roundabout (just past RBWH at ground level), including fast-charging.
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The charging infrastructure is at the RBWH layover (M2 northern end), Countess Street layover (M1 northern end), UQ Lakes (M2 southern end) and the Rochedale depot (close to the M1 southern end).
Donāt count on either route being extended at either end with the current vehicles. I understand the cycle times are intimately connected with the locations of the chargers.
All they had to do was put some trolleywires up and they wouldnāt have had this issue, as the vehicles could have charged while in-motion.
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^^ I was wondering how tightly the charging cycles were calculated for the LighTrams.
I honestly didnāt think that they would pull that area together as quickly as they have!
According to Scott McDonald from ABC Radio Brisbane, Metrobus M1 and BNBN will launch on the 30th of June.
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Iām a massive loser in the new network, either I walk up and down steep hills for about 600m to access the new 205, or the existing 200, 204, 222 to the city, or continue catching my beloved 203, but forcing a transfer at PA Hospital, walk over the over bridge then get the M2 to QUT KG, difficult when youāre living with a chronic illness that causes fatigue when walking. I can walk about 50-100m before my body collapses and I need to stop and rest, and that wonāt improve until I get another transplant (if that ever happens).
Also as an additional slap in the face, there are no changes planned in an increase in frequency or span of service for the 203, basically the existing timetable will continue with it just no longer going to the city.
So to/from uni, it will be 3 buses (or 6 buses in total) if I donāt want to push my body with the chronic illness. Oh and 2 buses to get to dialysis (the dialysis unit is located closer to Boggo Road, not PA Hospital). Route 203 really shouldāve been extended to Boggo Road, if you wanted to capture transfers to the railway, but oh well.
For the first time in my life, Iām actually seriously considering learning to drive and no longer using the PT network, as it will no longer be usable from my residence.
Really not looking forward to these changes.
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Also some shots of the internal PIDs today on the Metro buses. Transfer info, Points of Interestā¦
