Problem Solved (1)
fbb was concerned that premium fares on the YELLOW Airport line might be unfair fares for passengers on the rest of the yellow line running south from the city centre.
Of course, his worries are unfounded because the Airport line does NOT continue past the city centre. At some ill-defined point the Airport line changes, like Cinderella's pumpkin, into, tada ...
... the YELLOW Gold Coast line, upon which the current 25c (50p) flat fare is suree valid.
Maybe the rubric should say the cheap fare is except fares to the Airport, rather then on the Airport line.
Problem Not Solved, Yet
Most long distance trains are tourist or leisure related. If you want to get anywhere further away in Oz, you fly. So Brisbane has THREE airports.
In the north there is one for the Sunshine Coast.
... but with no apparent link to the rail network- yet. A link to the GREEN Line is "approved", but so were trains to Portishead (in the UK) oodles of years ago!
Back at the southern end of the yellow line ...
... there is a link to another route in YELLOW. This is not a Gold Coast line branch but a tram!
It is called "G-link" (for Gold Coast - gettit!) and, as is so often the case with trams (see Manchester UK), you are not allowed a timetable.
The route is wiggly and not fast.
But, we hear you cry, surely we are making for an airport?
For that you need to change again ...
... to a route 777 bus.
Note that a tram extension is "under construction" but with no mention of a final progtess to the Airport.
The 777 runs every 15 min seven days a week and ...
... it is double deck!
The buses are what used to be known in the good old lorry driving days ...
... as a rare example of a "Chinese Six" (two axles at the front, rather than their usuaul location at the back).
Are these the only double deck buses in the Brisbane area?
The Olly doesn't count!
It's a caff, not a bus!
Problems Solved, Possibly?
What about suburbs that don't have trains?
The train map shows "selected" bus routes with no explanation of why these particular services appear on a rail map.
And look, there is another bus to Carindale, additional to the 200 previously blogged.
The 222 is also a BUZ services and appears on a 200 and 222 leaflet which is indexed as just the 222.
IF fbb ever completes his Carindale map ... 
... he ought to add the 217 and 222.
Problem Solved, Soon!
Remember that empty station on the loop line in Brisbane city centre.
The line and station ate opened to serve the annual "Ekka" exhibition. Once simply an agricultural show, it expanded to be a full-blown entertainment.
The train takes the strain of the happy crowds.
But this loop line us now getting a major upgrade as the Cross River Rail.
The new tunnel ...
The line's logo ...
... looks rather familiar.
Did Translink pinch it from Transport for London?
... will serve an underground station at Roma Street ...
... and the business district at Albert Street
Here is a video.
It seems Brizzy is making a better job of fully coordinated, integrated, rapidly developing public transport than anywhere in the UK.
What has Oz got that the UK has lost?
Next week we survey changes in Brizzle, not Brizzy!
Next Variety blog : Saturday 14 March
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