A Climate Council report released in July found Brisbane had the worst public transport access of all Australian capital cities — with 66.4 per cent of areas not having frequent all-day services available.

The state of public transport in this city is pretty appalling. It costs (outside of this trial) an insane amount. It can easily be 3 times or more as long as driving, if you time your departure perfectly. Your options late at night get even worse, with routes just not running at all, or dropping down to an unusably-bad once-per-hour.

This trial is great, because it's addressing one of those concerns. And hopefully it will be successful. But for our public transport to be successful long term, we really need drastically greater investment in the quality of service.

[–] trk@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is why I don't public transport...

And that's assuming no one has jumped in front of a train, left their car in front of a train, the train drivers have had a strike for more money and less trains, a power outage has stopped a train, a software error has stopped a train, or one of the countless other reasons the trains all grind to a halt for half a day when they're needed most.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah that's exactly it, hey. Here's a trip I regularly take on weekends:

It's just as fast to cycle as it would be to take public transport. And I have done that once or twice—though the ride is super stressful because parts of it require riding on 70 km/h roads and other parts require crossing 60 km/h roads at unprotected un-prioritised crossings.

It's just so disappointing how poorly our Council and state Government prioritise better forms of transport.