A review of associated bus network changes,first flagged in 2016 under a 10-point plan to improve the city’s public transport system pitched to include an overhaul of route numbering,was expected to start this year.
The assessed 235 routes,with nine scrapped and 80 further services changes across timetable shifts,route alterations and amalgamations.
Responding to questions from this masthead about the status of the new review,council transport chair Ryan Murphy said it was “well advanced” internally and would soon be ready for community feedback.
A council spokesperson said consultation on the network changes was due to start in “late 2022”. “,Brisbane’s bus network will need to evolve when Brisbane Metro comes online in 2024,” they said.
Labor council opposition leader Jared Cassidy suggested the details of the network review had so far been “kept secret”.
Murphy said the council had learned lessons from the 2013 review and would “not repeat them”.
Bus network reviews have between the council,which owns and operates the buses,and state government transit authority Translink.
The council’s $1.2 billion Brisbane Metro project is,and be fully operational,as its 60 articulated buses start to take to existing busways,along with new and upgraded infrastructure.
A series of delays, and have dogged the project since its announcement in 2016 to ease inner-city bus network congestion.
The council’s recent budget also contained an almost $140 million funding injection for the new station at Woolloongabba,.
Both the state and federal governments will also jointly fund the $450 million cost of the station.
During a budget information session this month,Murphy said funding had been allocated from within the Metro budget for the bus network consultation work.
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