FlexiBus is Here

ummm, no,

of what do you speak?

Haven’t you seen the tv ad, JB?

OK, I’m curious, why philanderers?

As to the system I still think the best option would be to rip out almost all the seats (for oldies and the disabled) and let people roll path-legal vehicles on and off.

between scooters, bikes, and low power electric scooters the whole population would be able to easily get to stops only along the arterial roads.

the buses freed from trundling through the back streets could zoom along at higher frequencies down the trunk routes.

better than this “plan for failure” system.

The service in Weston Creek seems to work pretty well, far better than no bus at all.

It certainly isn’t a bad thing in Weston Creek – get on a scheduled late night bus at Woden and head nearly straight home, rather than traveling through endless twists and turns with 3 other people. I haven’t had to catch one *to* Woden at that time, fortunately, but the phone-a-bus thing hopefully solves the lack of timetabled bus problem for most people.

The bus service for philanderers…

Yep, the main problem with Flexibus services is that they only work *as long as* patronage stays low.

There seems to be considerable irony in the fact that if the system works and attracts more patrons it becomes unsustainable.

Flexibus only operates after 9pm, not 7pm, or so is my understanding. So there’s presumably even fewer people on buses after 9pm… and I guess this is not such a bad option to reduce the wasteful system of having empty buses driving around.

Canberra doesn’t have the population to sustain that sort of ‘permanent’ transport solution. It has to be 100% flexible to adjust to fluctuation in demand, that’s buses.

Wether it is managed that way is another kettle of fish.

Flexbus is an absolute con.

It removes existing services and replaces them with a lack of certainty.

Still, the miniscule volume of people you see travelling on action after 7PM probably led them to this decision.

I think if the ACT had lightrail as its transport backbone with buses servicing teh light rail terminals then this sort of service might work, but I cant see Action lifting patronage by reducing services.