Re: Sydney Metro: 5 million passengers in first month.

Andrew Highriser
Monday, September 16, 2024 12:07 PM

A year or two ago, Canberra's bus routes were 'simplified' to 'improve the service', which led to longer walks to a nearest bus stop for many, without obvious improvements. Seems like cost cutting to me.

Andrew.

On Mon, 16 Sept 2024 at 21:50, 'Geoff Olsen' via TramsDownUnder <[email protected]> wrote:

Regarding feeder buses I was referring to the outer end which I have been lead to believe has been suffering from a lack of both feeder buses and commuter car parking almost from day one. I live at the opposite end of Sydney so I do have personal experience.

I was in Canberra a couple of weeks ago visiting relatives and although I did not get a chance to ride the new tramway I did hear something interesting. It would appear that the opening of the tram line resulted in the cancelation of some bus routes that are nowhere the trams. Other than accost cutting exercise I cannot see a valid reason for this.

Geoff O.

From: 'TP' via TramsDownUnder [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, 16 September 2024 4:05 PM
To: TramsDownUnder
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Sydney Metro: 5 million passengers in first month.

We won't know the exact amount of transfer of patronage from NSL until full calendar month statistics are available, but there are also a lot of new users. Huge demand for car parking further out. As far as I know, most northside bus services that ran to the city have been diverted to the metro.

Tony P