Proposed new Bus Routes: Giralang punished

So is anyone benefitting?

What is better about the new routes?

Amaroo has come off second best with the buses too. Got rid of the two buses that serviced the area (53 and 54) and replaced it with a “loop” service which means it’ll take me an hour to get to work instead of 25. Score.

I agree that the 47 chasing the 30/32 when it happened was silly.

I know that some people do use the get off at Radford cross the road and get a intertown series – however its not an all-weather solution, doesn’t work for the elderly, infirm or the like and relies heavily on the intertown buses being frequent enough that you can catch one where you don’t need to be pushed on.

Currently the 51,53,& 54 tend to arrive within 3 minutes of each other at the William Slim end of Chuculba – so routing the new 51/52 thru Giralang will only change which buses are chasing each other to Baldwin drive.
Catching these buses going the other way will result in a 1 hour trip to Civic.

It seems that lots of the revised bus routes are milk runs, which is the reason many people avoid catching buses in Canberra. Surely there is some decent software to enable much better routes than this.

Canberra’s unique multi-town centre approach has always presented a challenge for public transport, so perhaps a more unique solution is needed. We need fast regular services through each suburb which connect with express services to town & group centres from there. People don’t mind changing, its the interminable waiting in crappy interchanges that gets to them.

I can see the rationale for cutting route 47 and changing the course of the 51 and 52 to provide a service for Giralang. This doesn’t help Kaleen though. When I have used the 47 the majority of passengers have been from Kaleen. I guess they can take the 30 or the 31 depending on which half of the suburb they live in.

It is possible to take the (new) 51/52 bus to College Street (in front of Radford) and then grab a 100,200 or 300 series bus into Civic. This is my preferred route to town (using route 47 to get to College St).

I don’t mind them cutting routes if they streamline the service and increase the frequency of buses. I always thought it was dumb having the 47 and 30 chase each other around Giralang and Kaleen when staggering the services by 10 minutes would have provided a much more useable service.

If their proposed frequency of a bus every 15 minutes is realised it could be an improved service.

I was not happy to read there will be no more bus services to Civic from Giralang. We won’t even have a peak hour service! The route 30 is very popular with Giralang residents and it is insane that they are cutting this service.

Yeah the one that goes directly to his free reserved car park infront of the Legislative Assembly.

Such a great new route structure, I thought they were supposed to be improving the network?

All the services are still routed to go the longest way possible, and good to see the 34 will remain the closest to being the longest and slowest bus route in Australia.

And then there’s the claim for more peak hour services, but they choose to axe the expresso service that services Monash, Gowrie, Fadden and Wanniassa with the line “catch route buses 65 66 67” none of which go to the city unless you catch the odd one that goes around the mulberry bush through campbell. One would have thought that they would expand on a service that only ran 3 times a day and was jam packed on every occasion, but then it shows exactly why I haven’t caught a bus in more than a year.

great..so now instead of having two intertowns, and one expresso go through my suburb, i now get one bus that takes the long way around to either tuggeranong, or through heaps of other suburbs, through erindale, and finally to woden or civic.

stupid much??

Do bus services go past Stanhopes home in Bruce direct to Civic?

i demand ‘espresso’ services, where i can ask for a macchiato with my fare and get a side of nougat with it to keep me happy while i ride…

I lose more than I gain out of this ‘improved’ plan, and I havent had good bus services through my suburb since their first Slash and Burn budget…
So I’m guessing if this is ‘improved’, the original revisions were godawful.

Their point may be that if you’re in tuggeranong and trying to get into the City, catch a specific 3** bus?
Rather than weave your way through Barton & Russell?

It will suck a salty ball to catch a bus in Barton and think it’ll get you ino the City, though…

Stupid plan.

How about two expresso services that go from Tuggers to Barton and Russell – but NOT then into the city – all off at Russell! What’s wrong with an extra 5 mins of driving to at least get us into the city? It’s clear that they took no notice of submissions before coming up with these routes….

The elemental term is Lyin Piryte.

Sepi did you check out the Xpresso routes? 701/2 both go from Northside to Russell. Best bit about that is no school kids.

I thought I saw a pirate near the lake, but it wasn’t a pirate, just a bloke dressed up as a pirate. Upsetting.

Bugger – our northside bus no longer goes to russell.
Instead it goes the loooong way round to woden.
Probably only affects a handful of people that live in my suburb and work at defence though. But a bummer for us!
Time to buy a second car.

giralang residents will have to bunk in with the aboriginal tent embassy…

Won’t somebody please think of the over charged pizza prices.

And seems that Action think it’s only people living in Gunghalin and Tuggeranong who work at Brindabella Business Park.