Mr Cassidy is my local councillor so I could reach out and try too ask for more clarity if it was needed
To be honest, removing 117 Acacia Ridge to Woolloongabba was a whole can of worms that the BNBN planners didn’t have the foresight to see.
Lesson learned: some of your constituents will die on their hill, willing to protect their nichest bus stop to no end.
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Below are a list of bus routes that TMR and Transport for Brisbane have agreed as per the BNBN that require high capacity vehicles - ie. a 14.5m TAG axle bus or an articulated bus:
Note: There is no mention of any high capacity vehicles set aside for high patronage northside routes (ie. 330, 333, 340, 345, 385, 412, 444), as Virginia, Toowong, and Eagle Farm depots’ neither have 14.5m TAG axle buses or artics with a non-glider livery.
Interestingly, the Old Cleveland Rd corridor warrants ‘high capacity vehicles’, yet on weekends Carina bus depot seems unwilling to deploy their 14.5m TAG axle vehicles. All you see are rigid buses doing the 200/204/222 out in the eastern suburbs on a Saturday 
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Maybe the thinking is that the high capacity vehicles are mainly required for the weekday runs? I don’t get out that way often, are the smaller buses getting swamped on the weekend runs?
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The only northside routes that genuinely require a high capacity vehicle on the regular is the 60, 330, 333. Along with the 345 in peak hour only. All other routes would be better off having improved frequency on a 12m bus rather than longer vehicles.
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