Simon Corbell makes case for ending all public transport.

I heard a whisper the other day that the real reason Action won’t go to the airport, is that the airport owner can slug them with a big fee per bus. This is why DEWR is putting on their own busses for thier staff. I would be very careful of letting these people be in charge of any more major Canberra developments. (Ie Civic.) And where are our local news service when we need them to dig around a little into community issues like this? Simon says ‘we dont’ run a bus cos we dont’ want to’ and they just leave it at that????

yes, that first bus stop outside Phillip Pool is a joke, the other stop gets you closer to the majority of things in that area, and doesn’t require the bus to stop on a major road right near a slip lane.
Do the people who place bus stops just stick pins in maps while blindfolded?

Samuel

Just stumbled across this blog while trying to log onto the action website which seems to be down!

Anyway, whoever made the comment about letting Canberra Cabs run the public transport system has gotta be kidding themselves! The taxi’s are a law unto themselves and drive around, choose jobs and discriminate against people whenever they feel like it. How would you feel if the bus came past and just decided that because you were going to Civic and not Woden then they wouldn’t pick you up! That has happened to me with a cab!

And don’t get me started on the cost of catching a cab! Talk about highway robbery! $50+ just from Civic to Isabella!!!!

The taxi’s are independantly owned and anybody who has actually rung up to complain to Canberra Cabs about appalling driver behaviour or servie will know you get nowhere. They can’t take any responsibility because the taxi’s are all individually owned and they don’t really care cause they know they have enough fares anyway … what are you gonna do, you are a captive market at certain times of the night. No one takes responsibility for the complaints. At least Action will run the service anyway even if they are at a loss.

Light rail would be a great idea as it could stop all the unecessary stops in and around the interchanges and get people to work a lot quicker. Everyday when I catch a bus from Civic to Woden I feel like screaming when the bus pulls up outside Phillip pool, goes around the corner about 100 meters and stops again! Aaaaahhhhh! Can’t these people just walk the extra little distance?

Being able to catch a bus from Isabella to Tuggeranong and then get an express light rail to Civic would be awesome.

As for the reps comments about private transport, they aren’t too far off the mark but I catch the bus almost out of principal. How the governemnt can charge $6+ per day just to park the car and not provide any security or cover has dead set got to be extortion.

other advantages of light rail in the big scheme of things are that you can actually build higher density housing and not congest the roads further.

i think that the trend is already to wards infill, and properly planned transport/development should occur. whacking a bus stop in post facto isnt a solution.

the busways are a gross waste of money.

having used multimodal public transport in melbourne to get to work i have to say it isnt that much of an imposition to change trains/trams etc.

there may be a reason for simons odd statements. he did take a lot of time off last year…

But Seepi, you’re thinking in terms of common sense and the public interest.

I’m sure Simon’s heard of these thnigs but he’s a busy man with bigger things on his mind.

I still don’t understand why it would be sucha big deal to get Action to the airport. Simon is making out that a whole new bus route would have to be invented. But they ahve 4 busses that go to Campbell Park, which is the next suburb. Why can’t they just extend the route of one of those?

“Incomprehensible” is generally the Stanhope party’s policy.

Indeed, but is it cock-up or conspiracy?

“Incomprehensible” is generally the Stanhope party’s policy.

Samuel

I often suspect his incomprehensible answers mask a hidden agenda.