this was talked about quite a bit on the old rbot forms.
With the metro there is a massive missed opportunity to move buses away from the city to suburban routes, such as routes from Ipswich to Logan, Sandgate to Strathpine, Towong to Everton Park, Etc
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Welcome to the forum - Any proposals for out policy platform see the media section. 
In theory the ‘saved’ capacity is being redistributed as part of Brisbane's New Bus Network that BCC has planned. The issue is that the new network is redistributing the budget savings rather than the bus availability savings. Given the Metro isn’t really saving that much money, there isn’t really that much being put back into the surrounding suburbs.
Operators have service areas, and many of the areas you’re suggesting do not fall in BCCs operating area.
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The service areas are determined by Translink (in theory). The issue is that BCC has a lot of influence on the structure and plan of the bus network within Brisbane. It’s not surprise that BCC doesn’t give a flying crap about neighbouring councils, so they obviously won’t use their influence to push for increased services outside the BCC LGA.
A Sandgate to Strathpine service would be amazing. I also think a better service from Bracken Ridge to Strathpine would be good too considering the fact that the 327 is quite infrequent and doesn’t run at all on a Sunday.
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I agree that any bus capacity free up by Metro will most likely be deployed in Brisbane, but there are plenty of areas lacking frequent buses within the BCC area that really need them. Balmoral and the Centenary suburbs are two that immediately come to mind. Service north of Chermside (bar the 330/340) is pretty woeful, too.
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Must be part of a wholesale Network BRT-based Redesign not added to an already complex, confusing, illegible network!
https://forum.bettertransportqueensland.org/uploads/short-url/tEj4PF1KlLZaLnTOgzjPnkgxemU.pdf
agreed
Two potential ideas I had for the future where having a part busway tunnel under UQ to Indropilly. and having a bus/pedestrian green bridge from Tenerife to Builmba.
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Feel free to propose these for the 2025 Policy Platform (see the Media Section in the left menu)
Have you checked out the UQ St Lucia Masterplan.
SmartBus
Melbourne’s Smartbus is an orbital bus service that runs at high frequency.
It is a patronage oriented service that shows reasonably high patroange.
Notes
Anyone got the archives from when RBOT did a bus reform proposal?
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The 2014-15 era one? That’s Metro’s baby and he’d probably have the most info on it.
Archives of the RBoT forum are in preparation - I was able to do a scrape of arguable quality and I was also able to archive many docs and images hosted by Bob, as well as many user attachments.
We also made schematic maps of specific routes. I should still have all my work and the other map-maker is also still around. Funnily enough he has changed his pseudonym several times and I no longer post under mine.
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That would be it 
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We are due to do our own bus review as it was 10+ years ago.
This could be all mode and placed on our website as a mapbox or google map.
If we make it as easy as possible for authorities to see what we want, they might give it to us 
We’ve always wanted authorities to produce a network plan, they haven’t really released one, so it’s a space we can step into with our own.
What are your thoughts on this Wolfbow? Would you perhaps be keen to lead a review?
Like this
https://forum.bettertransportqueensland.org/uploads/short-url/tEj4PF1KlLZaLnTOgzjPnkgxemU.pdf
I wouldn’t be able to consulte with every single person but we as a group can try our best to make a proposal that gives as many people access!
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Well, we didn’t consult everyone. The map was made and then a survey went out with feedback. Adjustments were made after that.
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