That's what the article says. There will be a need to know the figure of bus passengers moving across from displaced routes to provide an idea of additional patronage generated. Presumably some (much?) of the additional will come from the Parkwood P+R. How full does that carpark get?

I was recently working out with my contact up there that at a guesstimate, about 2.5 to 3 million of the present patronage on the original line came over from the buses three years ago. The rest has been grown since then.

Tony P
---InTramsDownUnder@..., <tressteleg@...> wrote :

In a newspaper story I could not access, the headlines state that patronage on the line has gone up 25% since the Helensvale extension opened.

However some of that must surely be the abolition of the theme park express buses from southern suburbs, resulting in diversion of patrons to the trams, not that I care about the reason.

Regards,