Ipswich Bus Services

Queensland Greater Brisbane
, ,
22

Pretty horrific frequencies and span of hours in Ipswich for the most part.

3 Likes
23

The 502, 503, and 515 are such important routes in Ipswich, especially for school kids… It’s such a shame their frequencies are so awful. Super pumped for some frequency updates :slight_smile:

3 Likes
24

Thanks @rowangray for the list. :+1:

Indeed, and when you add in the frequent service cancellations due to the driver shortages it becomes very testing.

2 Likes
25

515? It’s the only route in Ipswich with decent frequency, at least on weekdays, when I imagine most school students would be using it for school travel purposes.

2 Likes
26

It’s a bit misleading cause it actually has short running. Only 1 in 4 goes all the way to Willowbank and 2 in 4 go to Yamanto.

So effectively:

  • Brassal to UniSQ: ~15 minute frequency
  • UniSQ to Yamanto: ~30 minute frequency
  • Yamanto to Willowbank Bank: ~60 minute frequency
1 Like
27

Route 500 used to run at a higher frequency but during my time at TL, I can admit I actually did cut it to it’s current frequency, with the rationale that the majority (not all of it) of the route is covered by the train. The resources taken out of route 500 were put elsewhere (I believe it was for Springfield which was in early development at the time).

2 Likes
28

6988-2025_MCU-20250721082013.pdf (283.8 KB)

29

I kinda understand having a lower frequency to Willowbank, but I think all journeys should go to Yamanto, and every second one to Willowbank. I guess the issue with this is that it reduces legibility, although no more than currently exists where there’s three termini.

1 Like
30

It is planned for the 515 to increase frequency to Yamanto.

2 Likes
31

Translink says they have 22 delivery partners. The article says 20 operators accepted the wage increase so that suggests there’s exactly one other operator beyond Bus Queensland who didn’t accept.

Have you seen the light and accepted my viewpoint that it should all be run internally?

32

It is used by many school kids, and that is unfortunate because it’s never on time :frowning:. Every time without fail I have taken the 515 it was late. There’s also constant service cancellations, or that’s what I’ve seen in the last few days from Translink </3

33

Is Bus Queensland and Park Ridge Transit counted together or separately? The below linked list shows both individually - it also shows only 18 delivery partners for the South East.

Worth also noting that this delivery partner list also splits up Kinetic into its Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast operations. Also, the list doesn’t include Logan Coaches, who operates the 587.

34

The whole area needs a blanket bus boost. And I wonder if there would be value in a new bus depot out at Springfield?

35

I would assume the figure of 22 doesn’t double count operators with the same parent company, and includes regional operators.

36

Doesn’t that 22 count include QR?

37

In the near future there won’t be no such thing as the Ipswich City Council. It will be a surburb and part of ‘Magna Brisbanius’.

3 Likes
38

QR is listed as a SEQ operator under the Contact Us section (which the “22 Delivery Partners” link in Cygnus’s post directs us to):

South East Queensland

Bay Island Transit
Transport for Brisbane (Brisbane City Council)
Brisbane Bus Lines
Bus Queensland Lockyer Valley
Caboolture Bus Lines
CDC Queensland
Clarks Logan City Bus Service
Hornibrook Buslines
Kangaroo Bus Lines
Mt Gravatt Coach and Travel
Park Ridge Transit
Southern Cross Transit
Queensland Rail
Kinetic Sunshine Coast
Kinetic Gold Coast
Thompson Bus Services
Transdev Queensland
Westside Bus Company

Regional

Airlie Beach and Proserpine: Whitsunday Transit
Bowen: Bowen Transit
Bundaberg: Kinetic Bundaberg, Stewart & Sons
Cairns: Kinetic Cairns
Gladstone: CDC Queensland
Gympie: Polleys Coaches
Hervey Bay: Wide Bay Transit
Innisfail: Trans North Bus & Coach Service
Kilcoy to Caboolture: Christensen’s Bus and Coach
Mackay: Mackay Transit
Maleny to Beerwah: Glasshouse Country Coaches
North Stradbroke Island: Stradbroke Island Buses
Rockhampton: Kinetic Rockhampton
Toowoomba: Bus Queensland
Townsville: Kinetic Townsville
Warwick: Haidleys Panoramic Coaches

2 Likes
39

Counting all SEQ operators across all 4 modes and all regional urban bus operators, ignoring long distance services / tourist services and any on-demand services not operated by an urban bus operator, and aggregating operations that are run by the same group, it’s still only really 23 operators statewide. I’m expecting more consolidation in the next 10 years as some of the smaller family held operations sell and/or merge. Some of the standalone operators only have a few services each and they tend to not be very busy.

Aggregated operators (1-4 are multinationals, 5-7 are privately held locals)

  1. Keolis Downer, soon to be just Keolis (G:link + Hornibrook buses)
  2. Kelsian (all SEQ ferries + North Stradbroke buses)
  3. Kinetic (Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast urban, inner Bundaberg, inner Rockhampton, Mackay, Townsville and Magnetic Island, Cairns)
  4. CDC (Sunshine Coast school, Gladstone, outer Rockhampton / Yeppoon / Gracemere / Mt Morgan)
  5. Pulitano Group / Bus Queensland (Park Ridge, Ipswich, Lockyer Valley, Toowoomba)
  6. Trans North (Bowen, Innisfail)
  7. Cavbus (Yarrabilba, Maleny, on-demand in Ipswich)

Standalone operators (8-9 are in public hands, 10 is a multinational but with only a single operation, 11-23 as far as I know are all still privately held locals - all are bus only except QR)

  1. QR (throughout SEQ)
  2. BCC (inner Brisbane)
  3. Transdev (Redlands)
  4. Brisbane Bus Lines (Samford)
  5. Caboolture Bus Lines (Caboolture, Bribie Island)
  6. Christensen’s Bus and Coach (Kilcoy)
  7. Clarks Logan City Bus Service (Logan)
  8. Haidleys Panoramic Coaches (Warwick)
  9. Kangaroo Bus Lines (Caboolture to Redcliffe)
  10. Mt Gravatt Coach and Travel (Redlands to Mt Gravatt)
  11. Southern Cross Transit (Ipswich and Brisbane west - school only)
  12. Polleys Coaches (Gympie, Cooloola, some school services as far as Maryborough)
  13. Stewart & Sons (outer Bundaberg - Moore Park, Eliott Heads)
  14. Thompson Bus Services (North Lakes to Strathpine)
  15. Whitsunday Transit (Airlie Beach, Proserpine)
  16. Wide Bay Transit (Maryborough, Hervey Bay, Burrum Heads)
4 Likes
40

Plenty of bus service cancellations around Ipswich this morning …
’ staff availability ’

1 Like