Re: CSELR feeder bus review
  Greg Sutherland

"All those bus service/route changes are implemented by TfNSW" is 100% correct, but what we are talking about here is the 'preparation' of Region 9 for the incoming private operator.

Examples quoted below reveal how the 'preparation' by TfNSW which State Transit has been forced to implement has negatively impacted local bus commuters with enforced transfers bus/bus, the cutbacks in cross suburban services (focus has been on elimination of cross regional runs (fragmentation of the 400 service for example) so that each region's services stays within the region. This 'streamlines' the service requirements placed upon the regional operator and suits TfNSW's oversight(!) task by ensuring a lovely silo arrangement is created across each of the privatised regions.  Pity about the services being optimised for the passengers.

It is generally agreed that one of the benefits of buses is that they facilitate the introduction of cross regional services by avoiding CBD traffic congestion with direct connecting services. What is being done here is totally contrary to the effective implementation of cross regional bus services in the future.

Greg


On 16/10/2021 5:19 pm, TP wrote:
> 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+11gregsut...@... 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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