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
> >
>