It’s easy to complain about what’s wrong with Brisbane public transport, so how would you improve the current system?
Perhaps you’ve got ideas for new lines, staffing, operating hours, changes to ticketing – maybe you’ve got some good reasons why the entire system should be free!
Here’s your chance to let State Government know how you’d do a better job.
Set it on fire.
24 hour bus services to start with. Plus more frequent services to high use areas, and more suburban buses that service areas away from major busways and interchanges. Not to mention more frequent services to the outer reaches of the city.
Queensland Rail/CityTrain/Airtrain are a massive fail that simply need to be scrubbed clean and started again. I can’t see any easy fix for that mess.
As a public transport user in BRISBANE for the past ten years I can’t really complain. Having used systems overseas and had to suffer really late and really dirty trains plus very rude and unhelpful staff. I can only say it’s not THAT bad. Try the rush hour on the TUBE in London or a boneshaking local service in SPAIN! Brisbane is still a very bright and clean city- enjoy it! If anything a small minority of people need educating on timekeeping in peak time; this is one of the things that holds services back have the right money/concession card ready- plan your journey- use the Translink site! we all have to take some of the responsiblity ourselves and not just keep blaming the providers.
model it more on european systems, as they seem to work quite well. think england and france.
i think buses need to be run better in general here and also the trains should run more frequently
Go Card only, I am tired of having to wait to get on transport while people try to find the right change! I would love trams/tube in the outter Brisbane regions (like in Melbourne or London)so there is more access and reliability. More security is needed actually on buses, not just at the stations – drivers have enough to deal with without attention seeking teens or drunks causing a scene. Also, while in London I could access the Transport For London (TFL) website that informed me of all the forms of public transport I could use to take me to my destination – here I have to access Brisbane City Council website, Translink website and regional bus services to find out times, stops and transfer areas. A night bus service would be great!
I love the city cat and would love to see it operate 24 hours or at least until 3 in the morning when most people go home after a big night out.
You think public transport systems in England “work quite well”??? Have you ever lived there? (And by that I mean not just in London). It’s expensive, unreliable and inefficient and the coverage is woefully inadequate. If Brisbane public transport was modelled on that it would be a lot worse than it is now!
Fix the Go Card system so it’s worth the hassle of getting. It has a bad reputation for having bugs and for charging people for faults with the service, and before people really embrace it, that needs to be remedied.
Make it run on time. If services simply don’t show up, or show up over half an hour late, why would people use it if they can drive? The services need to be made more reliable if the government want people to use them.
Pay the bus drivers a decent wage, have them on full time rather than contract and part time so they need to work elsewhere as well to make ends meet. Pay people fairly and they will provide better service.
Make it safer. The Inala busses, for example, do not have a good rep, and the number of times my family have told me about fights on the bus even when there was security doesn’t fill me with confidence. Drivers have enough to deal with without poorly behaved passengers, and security needs to be tightened and punishments made more severe for people who make the public transport systems an unsafe place to be.
Fire every single person who answers calls at Transinfo. Because I’ve yet to meet anyone who has gotten a correct answer to a question from them, and the theory is that they’re just making it up as they go. If you call someone who is meant to know what they’re talking about, and they give you information that leaves you miles from where you’re meant to be and hopelessly lost, it’s a bad system.
Make everything transparent and accountable. No more hiding behind policy, no more of the idiotic behaviours that ruin peoples ability to trust in our public transport system.
Use Maxi taxis on set routes akin buses but with no timetable and charging by zones per passenger. Set amount of them on each route just get to linking area and turn around. Sign post pickup and drop points and frequency. Used in South A
America very efficient. Covers all the runs where a bus is not viable and backs up buses where they are left wanting.
Bet our transport supremos will find reasons not to trial it for 12 months.
Phase out paper tickets. Put up more Go Card recharge spots more main bus stops (ie. South Bank, Woolloongabba, Central). Get more recharge facilities in suburban news agents and convenience stores. It’s annoying trying to track down a 7/11 or Night Owl that isn’t city based that is able to recharge the Go Cards.