Re: Airport rail link

["Alex Pout" <alpout@optusnet.com.au>]

Daniel Bowen <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Alex Pout" <alpout@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Anthony Morton <amorton@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au> wrote in message
> > > Actually I believe Brisbane now has a higher share of trips by public
> > > transport than Melbourne does (8% versus 7% or some such).  Seems
crazy
> > when
> > > you compare the infrastructure available in both cities.
> >
> > Now, thinking about Brisbane's busses, I can see how that would happen,
> and
> > I might have to change my opinion on busses thinking about them.  When
> Expo
> > 88 was on, I used to wander around by myself at night and catch the bus
> > (CityXpress to Moggill, or Fig Tree Pocket, and change at Kenmore) home.
> > Very convenient, we lived about 25km out from the city, but every hour,
> > there was an express service into the city that took 30-odd minutes.
This
> > was as well as the other routine busses which served our area.  On the
> other
> > side of the river there were the trains, I had many a train ride on them
> > living there then.
>
> Hmmm... but hourly service for a 30 minute ride is never going to attact a
> large proportion of trips.
>
> I think most people visiting new cities are more likely to use public
> transport there than at home.
>
>
> Daniel
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> Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
> dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au
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>

We lived in Brisbane in the time Expo was on, a few years before, and a few
months after.  There were about four levels of bus services, from the all
stops, to the skip stops, to the partial expresses to the CityXpress.  All
of these ran in conjunction with each other.  If I went to the bus stop at
the end of my road and had to wait more that 10 minutes for a bus, something
was wrong.  And believe it or not, the CityXpresses are packed, day and
night (any banana benders want to comment here??).  The last time I caught a
bus in Brisbane was in peak hour, to Moggill, it was SRO with another bus
going to leave about 5 minutes behind.  It all came down to the frequency of
service and reliability.

I wonder why Queenslanders are looked upon as being slow when they
continually prove that they can outdo the rest of the country in a lot of
things (public transport, sport, regional development.. the list goes on).

Al