Public transport in brisbane?

Question

why is it so crappy, when we have (including gold coast), 3.5 million people? Buses that don't turn up, high prices to use it. Ticket machines that don't work, and then we get fined for now having a ticket!!! Yet we are encouraged to use the pathetic public transport system. When will it be improved?

Answer 1

Well technically theirs 4.6million living in Brisbane including Gold coast - i went past the airport the other night, it tells you there. Generally the public transport is not up to scratch, and i agree it should be fixed. The only way you would get the government to possibly do something is to start a petition and get alot of signatures. Maybe you could be the one i see on channel 7, 9 or 10. ;)

Answer 2

Unfortunately I don't think it will be improved (at least not any time soon).  

I catch the train every day to work and last year it didn't even turn up - 5 times.  On Monday mornings in peak period they only have one office window open for buying tickets - and I am NOT going to use those stupid new machines that you can't even tell if you are pushing the right button or not.  I agree with you - it is all c**p!

The people running the system don't have any competition so why do they need to get off their fat lazy asses and do anything?  I say they need to start getting some private competition and then things might start changing.  If I got better service elsewhere I would be going there.  (And it wouldn't be hard to get better service!!!)

I do feel for you - and so do thousands of other people.  (By the way - you realise that they can't charge you if their machines were faulty?  As long as you buy a ticket at the other end they can't do anything - it's part of their rules).

Answer 3

complaint

http://www.translink.com.au/

http://www.translink.com.au/qt/translin....

Answer 4

The Italian Guy is dreaming if he thinks that a complaint will have the slightest efffect - it will be a drop in an ignored bucket.

I think the basic problem is that Greater Brisbane has grown into a large city without the amateurs running the place even noticing. They pay lip service to acknowledging the growth but let petty party politics get in the way of actually looking at the big picture and doing something about it.



The BCC can't even coordinate buses and ferries within Brisbane, let alone with services from other areas, and the trains are a state government responsibility with no connection with anything else and every section blames every other one for the debacle.

All transport in SEQ needs to be handed to a single, well funded body managed by the state government. Yes, I know they're useless, but they're all we have to work with and no other solution has any hope of working.

We're in an awful Catch 22 situation at present. Fewer people should drive their car to work and more people should catch public transport, but the PT is appalling so they drive and so we need a better road system, which costs the money that should be spent on PT and so we go 'round and 'round in ever decreasing circles.

Answer 5

Because the Bus service in brisbane has always been crappy, even with the new service just opened recently, its still sh*t. Buses are still late, yesssss its pathetic!! It will never improve...time to go out and buy a car!