DFO gets its own bus service

Ikea: cheap chinese imported rubbish with obscure swedish names to give an air of class; might as well shop at Hot Dollar really.

If Snow hadn’t done the Deanes deal where the airport creamed a fee off each passenger then I’m sure Action would happily have provided some service years ago. I wonder if the economics ever came through for the govt depts that moved to the airport but then found that workers wanted transport, which they then paid for.

But I don’t understand – I caught a bus to DFO on Saturday! The 980 drops you about a block and a half from the DFO…

I don’t mind brand depot, and I don’t mind DFO. Neither’s wonderful, but they’re OK. A few too many kiddy clothes shops at Brand Depot, but the cheap sheet shops are pretty good.

There used to be a normal bus to the airport, I think they cut it out in 1978 (and the walk to Duntroon got real old real fast).

DFO is pretty good. Much better when compared to Brand Depot. Brand Depot would probably get more support from the Govt if Mr Snow wasn’t such an idiot!

I don’t mind DFO at all. Shop there all the time and I do find it cheaper than the full price outlets for the same brands. What is really required in that area is an Ikea. I miss my Ikea fix dearly. Back in Vegas, I even built our whole kitchen out of Ikea bits and saved myself $10,000 in the process!!

Yeah, I just ate up the perception of all the bargains:

exposed air con ducts
concrete floors
girders
impressive subterranean carpark

Just don’t look at the price tags and you can just imagine those savings rolling in

It sounds like Hell, with extra lashings of Food Court.

Tracker said :

I still haven’t been to DFO, I have to check it out, maybe this weekend.

It’s really not that exciting, similar to grand depot, just different shops with ‘perceived’ value for money.

housebound said :

DFO is obviously better at the negotiation.

And location. A bit of detour from to an existing service is a bit easier to cope with. That, and isn’t Brand Depot free from ACT rates etc?

When Action changed it’s timetables a few months ago it extended route 40 (now route 10) to go to the airport, the business park and brand depot between peak times – but not after hours. I’m not sure about how a bus user would get there on the weekend though.