Re: Airport Line Lack of Patronage? (NSW, the only state to have one open in Australia at the moment)

[Ben <sporologist@yahoo.com>]

Daivd R wrote:
> 
> 7) Lack of local transport intergration. The trains are in
> competition with the buses. Hence there are no bus interchanges
> and no plans to provide feeder buses- If all of the bus routes
> that pass within a block of Green Square (100, 304, 305, 309,
> 310, 343, X09 and X43) where redirected via Green Square, then
> the bus service would be so far superior to the trains (and
> cheaper) that no commuter would even consider the train to get
> to the city. All of the routes together would provide a bus to
> the city every 2-3 minutes for a journey time of 5-10 minutes to
> central. Comparable to a train every 10 minutes with a journey
> time of 3 minutes. Additional I would speculate that bus
> competition is the reason why the Airport Link doesn't like
> travelpasses.

The 309 and 310 pass right by Green Square station. There is a bus stop
near the station. I caught one of them (can't remember which) to near
Hyde Park on the day that the airport line opened.