Re: CSELR feeder bus review
  TP

All those bus service/route changes are implemented by TfNSW and are
nothing to do with who operates the services.

Tony P

On Saturday, October 16, 2021 at 1:40:19 PM UTC+11 gregsut...@... wrote:

> I think a major factor contributing to the high number of petition

> signatures is Treasury/Transport's ongoing and longstanding antipathy

> towards public bus transport in the Eastern Suburbs. Going back even to

> the outrageous "Better Buses East" fiasco and the accompanying lies

> which saw an 18% across the board cut in local bus services even though

> the spin generators were saying how much better bus services would be.

> There has been a great deal of agitation, supported by local politicians

> from both sides of politics and even with this level of support

> additional services have only been augmented when services are

> hopelessly overcrowded. I once, after visiting my local Member of

> Parliament, had to wait outside her Double Bay office for an hour and 45

> minutes (5:30 pm to 7:15 pm) to get on a bus as all the previous buses

> sailed past full and not picking up.

>

> No one in the Region 9 area believes that the privitisation of the

> operation of local bus services will in any way improve the services.

> In preparation for the 'new' order we have already seen the

> disappearance of the direct 389 bus service (the one that replaced the

> Bondi via Bellevue tram) linking North Bondi/Bellevue Hill/Woollahra to

> St Vincent's Hospital, the diversion of the 379 (Bronte tram) service

> from the Oxford Street/Railway corridor to North Bondi (7Ways) which has

> had a major adverse impact on Bronte/Waverley commuters, the break up of

> the 400 Bondi Junction/Airport/Rockdale route and a plethora of changes

> to cross country bus services NOT related to the CSELR interchanges.

>

> The people of the East fought to keep their trams as they knew that the

> 'improved' service was an illusion, as it proved to be. They have seen

> the lies and retrograde 'improved' bus services in the Inner West and

> hence the extent of petitioners. They are not against light rail they

> are against incompetence in public transport provision and the

> transparent spin they are being exposed to.

>

> Greg

>

>

> On 14/10/2021 7:06 pm, TP wrote:

> > I see that the local political campaign against diverting buses to

> > interchange with the light rail has taken on new energy with the

> > arrival of Rob Stokes as a new Transport Minister to be persuaded. The

> > total number of signatures on petitions has now risen over 80,000.

> > This is over half the total population of Randwick and probably much

> > of the commuting population! So tell me now that people will prefer a

> > tram over a bus any time.

> >

> > I think it's more complex than just the mode. The tram seems to now

> > satisfy most users within its own catchment. The discontent comes with

> > the curtailing of through buses, exacerbated by the slowness of the

> > tram service, which means a much longer journey when interchange time

> > is taken into account. It doesn't have to be thus, as many European

> > (non French) tram operations demonstrate. With new occupants in key

> > Ministerial portfolios, it will be interesting to see where this

> > heads. The restructure was supposed to have been finalised before the

> > end of this year.

> >

> > Tony P

> >

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