We have been inundated with responses to our story about the changes to Brisbane’s bus network.
The biggest shake-up of the city’s bus network in a generation will take effect on June 30.Credit: Domain
Commuters have been shocked to discover they will be forced to change buses midway through their journey, and in some cases, stripped of their service entirely when the network changes take effect in less than three weeks.
This is what commuters are saying:
“Far from being improved, 2 of my bus services (375 and 385) will be worse. 375 will no longer go to The Valley, and 385 will no longer go to the Cultural Centre. What a joke!”
“The 202 service that used to travel from Carindale to City through Carina Heights is to be truncated at the PA Hospital meaning students at St Laurence’s, Somerville House, Brisbane State High and South Bank TAFE now have to change buses. This makes no sense … there will be two buses (202 and 197) and commuters are left worse off.”
“We live just off Samuel St in Camp Hill and work at Mater/QCH. It looks like there will no longer be a direct bus to the Mater Hill as the 202, 203 services are changing to only go to the PA. Totally disincentivising to take the bus as any stop always adds time and risk of being late to work.”
“170 being discontinued and replaced with 179. This means I will have to change services to South Bank at workplace.”
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