Brisbane Bus Brands (3)

 Looking at a Lovely Leaflet

After riding the 200, c/o YouTube video stills plus a bit extra from fbb and Google maps, today's task will be to explore the leaflet produced by Translink. fbb assumes that the existence of this PDF file means that printed copies are available.

But first, a word of warning.

There is another Translink in Northern Ireland. It has just spent quite a lot of money in a dramatic rebrand.

Wowsers!

fbb hopes his readers will not confuse the two. Today's  blog refers to the umbrella organisation that handles buses, trains and ferries in Queensland - including Brisbane which is well over 10,000 miles from Belfast.

Before we look at BUZ 200, we need to encounter three other associated services.

N200 runs on Friday nights (Saturday early) and Saturday nights (Sunday early) and is additional to route 200 journeys which also run all night similarly. The leaflet uses the brand 'Nightlink' and a Nightlink map is available ...

... which shows the N200 in orange. Perversely, the map does not mention buses on route 200 that run all night.

Route 201 is branded 'Rocket'.

These are peak hour 'peak flow' journeys, Monday to Friday only,  that are even more limited stop than the 200, and they follow a different route.

Also Monday to Friday only is the 205.

This is hourly off-peak with extra 'peak flow' timings. The 205 has yet another route and a different terminus at Carindale.

The N200, 201 and 205 all do different things in the city centre.

It is all a bit challenging! 

But the leaflet includes a route summary of each service and a map combining all four.

It is all a bit challenging.

Here are the other two route summaries;

And now for the map. To aid comprehensibility (?) fbb has split the map into three chunks. 

Firstly, from city centre to greater Wooloongabba (just love that indigenous name!)

Colours are not the best.

200  GREEN

201  PALE GREEN

N200 BLACK

205  DARK GREY

The next stage takes us to Caruna ...

... nearly to Carindale. The last section completes the routes.

There is also an enlargement of the city centre area ...

... very necessary as all four routes have different city terminus points! Only the 200 uses the Queen Street bus station.

There is no simple network map for the whole of Brisbane except an interactive version which fbb could not get to "ackle". All he managed was a sample page or two from an introductory set of screens. Example here ...

... and here!

So he [;an was to draw a geographically accurate map of the 200, N200 201 and 205 to match the straight-line efforts shown above. But time ran out with the work barely started/ Here is the central and busway area ...

... the middle bit (very underdone!) ...

... and the terminus area.

The "proper" 7-days a week service 200 and N200 is shown in the darker green.

The peak hour super express "rocket" and the hourly 205 are shown in a lighter green, but really need to be fully separated.

fbb may do more work on it in due course for his own amusement.;and possibly for the edification of his loyal and over-tolerant blog readers.

Emma Chizzit - Again

Dear readers, prepare yourself for a shuck.

Public transport fares are a 50 cent flat rate (a little over 25p), across all zones and modes on the Translink networks across Queensland.

This includes all regional urban buses, and bus, train (excluding Airtrain), ferry, tram and on demand services in South East Queensland.

Just imagine the joy of you could travel on any bus, all the Under and Over ground, plus all National Rail within the Transport for London area!

Well, fbb thinks they are dancing- more a sweaty jiggle!

Sadly Mr Khan has insufficient specie and Mr Starmer is a bit short at the moment.

In case you were wondering, you cannot travel the 1045 miles between Brisbane and Cairns, on a comfy bed, for 25p. Neither can you grab a standard class recliner seat for the same price.

The clue us in the brand "Translink" which, effectively, means local buses anywhere and everywhere in Queensland. 

Local trains in and around Brizzy are also included.

Except the Airtrain ...

... which, as its name suggests does not just serve the main airport.

The Airtrain served city centre stops as you would expect including South Brisbane and South Bank, that we met on the busway and the 200. After a run of local stops, the service zooms almost on stop past lost of other stations ...

... to serve local stations in the Helensvale and Varsity Lakes area. So, is there no 25p fare for local journeys at the end of the Airtrain.

Seems a bit mean if these folk are penalised?

fbb might have found an abb n n           nswer in time for tomorrow's blog.

 Next Brizzy Trains blog : Thurs 12th Mar