What does “essential track maintenance” typically mean?
I think most of the ETM is either planned closures running over time, or some sort of track fault that needs attention.
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Caught a metro replacement bus last night, very odd set of circumstances we have where we end up with bus replacement buses. Seems like they were running articulated buses even at 1:30AM, and somehow they’d managed to work up a 10 minute delay on a near-desolate busway in the middle of the night.
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It’s a rare gift…
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Rain causing some excitement this morning.
Momentarily seem to have lost power at full speed north of Caboolture (lights off, train coasting for about 30 seconds).
Since it’s an old SMU that can’t do full speed north of Caboolture the driver is trying to make up the lost time. Full anti skid as we came into morayfield and the traction control has kicked in a few times now when arriving and departing stations, it seems very slippery.
Makes for a fun commute!
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Props to the driver for trying to manage.
Why they put SMU’s on those lines baffles me.
I didn’t get a picture but it still seems to be a reasonable gap between train and platform at Buranda but level boarding is certainly nice
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Not sure if it’s a today change or earlier but PIDS and onboard announcements were saying just “Boggo Rd” instead of hybrid name. Guard and station signage is still hybrid
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It’s looking good!
We know it’s in the plan to gradually transition the name over so I guess the next phase is starting…
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How long has it been since they changed over to the Boggo Rd/Park Rd version?
Am I right in thinking that it was planned to be a 6 month change over period?
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Judging by the photos I have on my library the transition started in August 2024.
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So about 9 months. Probably decided it made sense to tie it in with all the other big changes.
That said, it is still the dual named Boggo Road/Park Road on the Translink website, so they haven’t entirely renamed it yet.
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One of the trainspotting channels on YT has uploaded a video of an automated announcement featuring Boggo Road only.
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They wasted so much money on that name transition, when they could have gone straight to renaming it Boggo Road.
I disagree, it was a measured, well implemented name change.
How would you feel if your local train station one day was called something different that you weren’t familiar with, or if you were a visitor to Brisbane and you couldn’t find the “Park Road Station” listed on your business itinerary or <12 month old city map?
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^^I think you are over thinking hypotheticals
Wouldn’t worry me, all for change.
I think you’re underthinking just how disruptive the abrupt changing of a major public transport interchange’s name would be.
When you work in fields related to wayfinding, you have to seriously consider the hypotheticals, as that is what separates good wayfinding from bad wayfinding.
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It’s a waste of money to change it twice as well as informing online map providers twice when once is suffice.
It wasn’t the gap between sections up near the showgrounds was it?