The article talks a lot about the problem, but only briefly touches upon the solution.
"Five per cent of our community use public transport — that's so low because it isn't being seen as a viable alternative," he said.
"It's not efficient, and it's not regular enough.
"It's an ineffective way of getting people off the Bruce Highway, getting them off the roads."
That's it. That's all it says about the most important thing that can be done to fix the issue. The Caboolture and Kippa-Ring lines need to be upgraded to run a bunch faster. The Albany Creek, Samford, Dayboro triangle needs access to some serious form of trunk line. And all three of the main areas that make up the City of Moreton Bay need much better access to high frequency bus routes taking them to places like local shops, schools, and to those trunk routes.
And while we're at it, that should be more affordable than it currently is. Caboolture (or even just Petrie) to the city costs a whopping $60 per week if you travel 5 days.
Yeah, but
A spokesperson for the Department of Transport and Main Roads said $1.529 billion dollars had been specifically allocated for road projects in the Moreton Bay region.
So we can't invest in public transport but we can pour some more money into road expansions!
I used to commute from North Brisbane to Caboolture. Always fortunate enough to be going the opposite direction of the traffic. The Bruce seriously is a carpark. It feels so absurd when you just drive past all of these cars parked on a highway.
It's gotten so bad even non-peak direction or well outside of peak hour is often still a terrible drive.
If we had good public transport I'd never do it. But even with traffic as bad as it is, it still somehow takes longer to get to Landsborough than it would to drive. And Landsborough is a ridiculous place to have the closest station to the Sunshine Coast, because then you've somehow got to get across to the coastal towns. Roma Street to a Caloundra Station should be doable in under an hour, and then a little more to continue up as far as Noosa.
