Bus Services and related infrastructure

[nathandavid88]

@Cygnus

What I was meaning was building an entirely separate elevated road up to the Murrays/Mandew roundabout. Elevation is absolutely needed to get across the river, motorway and flood plains. In a perfect world I wouldn’t use Murrays or Sewell, as a residential street is probably not the best place for high bus volumes. But I’m not sure where the protected trees are, so I’m unsure what’s achievable.

Basically, the protected area in this area (it extends much beyond this section) is effectively from the roundabout down to where the greenery ends and the road diverges away from Slacks Creek. From memory, the Gossia gonoclada overlay covers only the western side of the road on the banks of the creek for the most part - it crosses over Murrays Road up towards the roundabout, but there’s also the separate Murrays Environmental Reserve on the eastern side.

@Cygnus

I’d argue the existence of those routes in their present form is a failure of planning, and the extra peak capacity at Springwood and Rochedale could be provided by making the 569 stop there.

As a 569 user, I can tell you that would not work at the current 569 frequencies.

The 569 is always mostly full when it leaves Loganholme with few empty seats, but for the services after 7:30am when the frequency drops to one bus every 15 minutes, the buses are literally at standing room only when leaving. The 569’s 15 minute gap matches that of the 555 (07:30, 07:45, 08:00) so both buses end up leaving Loganholme as sardine tins.

I’ve tried catching a 555 from Rochedale in the AM peak, and if the bus isn’t full by that point, it wouldn’t be very far off. The 569 would be the same.