Unfortunately the Brisbane City Council, which extends for a distance of approximately 20 km radius out from central Brisbane, has control over the transport mode to be used within that area, and like their state counterparts, the LNP, have an ‘anything that is not a tram’ attitude.
It will be interesting to see whether the Metro buses, which will be 20 m shorter than a Gold Coast tram, running every 3 minutes can handle loadings.
Despite it being nearly 5 years since a non-rail Metro system was proposed at a council election, nothing physical has been produced to date although some contracts have been awarded.
With the tram being handy, there is little need for me to catch a bus these days but the last time I looked, the front door was still closed off with entry only via the centre door, except on those buses which have only a front door. Drivers no longer sell tickets.
Regards,
> On 3 Dec 2020, at 7:06 am, TP historyworks@...> wrote:
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> This is logical of course and why you upgrade to trams when the demand becomes too great. They quietly recognised that this happened on the Brisbane busways which is why they going to the double artics and converting to a trunk + feeder method - while still holding out against trams.
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> That would be the same RTBU in Queensland that allows rear-door boarding in Brisbane while declaring it utterly dangerous in Sydney. At least they have the weak excuse that they are different state branches, not like the clowns at TWU in NSW where NSW and ACT are the same branch and they've allowed rear-door loading in ACT but declared it dangerous in NSW (while at the same time also happy with it in every other state). Strangely, they're all fine with it in trams. And they wonder how unions bring industries to their knees and lose all their members their jobs anyway.
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>> On Thursday, 3 December 2020 at 07:47:49 UTC+11 Richard Youl wrote:
>> The first photograph with this story shows the ‘efficiency’ of running too many bus routes along a single corridor.
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>> The platform in the foreground can accommodate 4 buses but bitter experience showed that if you are waiting at positions 1 or 2 but the bus you want arrives in position 4, it may depart before you have time to run to it. That doesn’t happen with trams!
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>> https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/south-east-queensland-public-transport-fares-to-be-frozen-in-2021-20201202-p56juq.html
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