New Brisbane bus timetable<\/a><\/p>\nAbout three-quarters of Brisbane’s bus services will change in some way, with services being cut, added, rerouted, renamed, or split in half.<\/p>\n
Mr Mickelberg added that since 50-cent fares had been made permanent, Queenslanders had saved about $236 million on 114 million trips.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner said the new network would deliver 160,00 extra trips every year and faster journeys for more than 45 million passengers.<\/p>\n
“With more than 600 people moving to our city every week, we need to keep growing our transport network to keep Brisbane moving,” he said.<\/p>\n
‘No silver bullet’ for congestion<\/p>\n
Despite the early success, peak motoring body RACQ said the new network had not had a meaningful impact on congestion, although it had not expected it to.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The scale of congestion issues in Brisbane and south-east Queensland is such that there is no silver bullet,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The bus network review should be considered as stage one of a much deeper and longer process of reform and change that is needed for public transport.”<\/p>\n
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Six million people are expected to call south-east Queensland home by 2046.\u00a0 (ABC News: Chris Gillette)<\/p>\n
Mr Kane said the organisation’s member surveys since the new timetable launched showed that there was strong support for the Brisbane Metro in Brisbane and Logan.<\/p>\n
“We can see the Brisbane Metro is very popular, but it’s only two routes, mainly through the inner-city, and so what RACQ has been calling for \u2026 is a transformation of the bus network across the whole of south-east Queensland,” he said.<\/p>\n
The Adelaide Street tunnel, a dedicated connection for busways in the city, opened on September 29 and will affect the data in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Bus services are now running on time about 80 per cent of the time. (ABC News: Lucas Hill)<\/p>\n
Cr Schrinner said the council’s focus had “always been on helping residents get home sooner and safer, and these results show that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening”.<\/p>\n
Translink’s customer experience surveys for south-east Queensland bus passengers in 2025 showed an overall rating of 3.7\/5 in July, \u00a03.6\/5 in August and 4.1\/5 in September.<\/p>\n
But council opposition leader Jared Cassidy said community feedback in surveys conducted by Labor painted a different picture, with the average rating of the network at 1.4\/10.<\/p>\n
Of 361 responses, 70 per cent of people said their commute had increased, and 50 per cent said the number of transfers they have to perform had increased, while 70 per cent said they were not happy with the changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Adrian Schrinner and his LNP council are pulling the wool over Brisbane\u2019s eyes,” he said.<\/p>\n
Population growth demands action<\/p>\n
With south-east Queensland’s population expected to reach 6 million by 2046, Mr Kane said current planning would not meet demand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We’re going to catch up with Sydney’s population in 20 years’ time and Sydney has far greater levels of public transport and road infrastructure, which they’ve built over many decades, and in that 20 years, we will not be able to build the infrastructure that Sydney has today,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We are not going to be fixing congestion overnight.”<\/p>\n
Calls for active transport links<\/p>\n
Griffith University transport and planning adjunct professor Matthew Burke said the new figures were in line with the expected outcomes of the new bus timetable, but it was great to see improvements in patronage and journey times.<\/p>\n
“Anecdotally, there’s been confusion for people in the changeover, that’s always going to happen, but the department and operators seem to have done a reasonable job explaining the changes,” he said.<\/p>\n
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Matthew Burke says connecting active transport within suburbs and to public transport is the missing link for commuters. (ABC News: Glen Armstrong)<\/p>\n
However, the Bicycle Queensland chief executive said there was still a lot of “mess in the system” and authorities needed to address the disconnected and disjointed active transport network.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“[The new network] is proof of what’s possible without a lot of money. The southern bus network review was done without big additional investment into services; it was done through tactical planning and thinking about the system, not through mega projects and building.<\/p>\n
“Buses on the north side will need a similar level of restructuring and we shouldn\u2019t be afraid of doing that in a large hit like we did on the south side.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane bus passengers have shaved two minutes off their journeys in the first three months of the new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[82879,64,63,51709,246,99,166572,38238,166571],"class_list":["post-289148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-adrian-schrinner","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brent-mickelberg","tag-bus","tag-business","tag-jared-cassidy","tag-public-transport","tag-timetable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}