Soory my I was unable to attend for longer than I did
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No fear Jonno! You had a very important job to attend to 
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Great to catch up with everyone at the meetings yesterday. Important groundwork for what will be a successful advocacy role from what I saw and understood. Great meeting venue as well (apart from the unfriendly road environment for pedestrians 
). Thanks for your hospitality. Must say enjoyed the travel on the train (8:27am ex Goodna 50% pax load) and the 444 Taringa to Kenmore Village (light pax load). Return 444 (20% pax load) and train Indooroopilly to Goodna (40% pax load). The fifty cent fares have a lot of folks travelling on weekends now. Cheers!
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Well done Jonno!
Thanks for a very interesting series of discussions on Sunday. I was interested in the idea of replacing mode share targets with a metric around service quality/accessibility. Iâve now looked at the TMRâs service delivery standards in the Budget statements (for the current FY)
https://budget.qld.gov.au/files/Budget_2024-25_SDS_Department_of_Transport_and_Main_Roads.pdf
Thereâs a striking difference between the type of service standards for the road network (condition, network efficiency and productivity) and the passenger transport system (patronage, customer satisfaction & ontime running).
@Metroâs idea of an indicator of quality of supply would seem to fit well into the conceptual structure of these service standards and a better basis for assessing the passenger transport system.
Caveat on this comment: I donât have an insider understanding of how the service standards work in Qld departments, Iâm assuming based on my experience with the budget and performance measures in Commonwealth departments.
Perhaps youâve already done work on the suitability of the departmentâs service standards? If not, the service standards as currently used seem in need of improvement and @Metroâs scoping out of a new type of indicator seems like a good start for developing a new service standard for the passenger transport system.
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Thanks for participating!
Yes, itâs a good point you raise. With roads much of it is prescriptive and supply led. Its the âwe need to build this road now because in x years the volume will be xx vehicles/dayâ whereas in PT the hourly bus practically has to be full to get an upgrade.
Roads also donât really have a mode share target. Sure, there might be plans but if the infrastructure is upgraded then the target will be missed, expanding the variance.
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Doesnât mean the mode share target isnât valuable. Itâs a key indicator that has been completely ignored due to the reasons you highlight. Didnât mean it shouldnât be a part of the vision. Governments need to change their behaviour not the targets. They already ignore them so removing them just play to their games.
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