In Brisbane, we live in a city where those that can afford inner city living enjoy a lifestyle of choices - where to go, when to go and how to get there. The further out you live the less options you have. It’s cheaper to drive the car (which is saying something at today’s petrol prices) than catching public transport, the roads are congested and it takes forever to get to where you’re going. Why not formulate a policy that rewards people using public transport? Encourage it as a way of life as it is overseas? By swapping the cost around so that fares are cheaper the further out you live, you give people a choice in their budgets. In the long term you’d have less cars on the road which means less road maintenance. It improves the lifestyle of people, the sustainability of the city and would be the a blueprint for the rest of the country.
Public transport changes the welfare of people
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However, ad you said: the areas that badly need attention, are: Portside Hamilton, & Sunshine Coast.
Another thing to consider is the high movement of retirees to Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast. In a couple of years, many of these people will not be capable of driving and we need to develop affordable public transport now.
I live way out in the northern suburbs.
Like many people these days, I’m a contractor and not an employee. Each week my work takes me across Brisbane and beyond.
We definitely need to reduce the fares for travelling across many zones. We also need to expand and make public transport more nimble. For example, to travel 3km from where I am now to the neighbouring suburb, there’s no direct public transport option, other than to take two buses and a 40 minute journey each way. This is ludicrous. It forces us to drive or to walk. There’s NO WAY as a female, I’d walk this particular 3km at night, and cycling isn’t for everyone. I’d love for public transport planners to be thinking about how we in the outer suburbs move around and across our districts; we’re car-dependent for much of our every-day activity and recreation. Why not introduce hail-and-ride or ‘order-with-an-app’ minibuses to traverse neighbourhoods and districts?