The Queensland government has downgraded public transport forecasts, with less than 10 per cent of journeys in the south-east expected to be on the region’s trains, buses and ferries.
In a parliamentary question on notice, Greens MP Michael Berkman asked Transport Minister Mark Bailey for the government’s forecast of public transport’s mode share, or share of total motorised trips, in 2050.
Berkman said the lower forecast demonstrated a “lack of ambition” on Labor’s part to get more people onto public transport. Comment was sought from Bailey. Instead, a state government spokesman talked up the government’s investments in public transport and laid the blame for the lower forecast, in part, on the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Instead of harping from the sidelines, the Greens should back the government’s efforts to make public transport more relevant to more Queenslanders.”Robert Dow of public transport advocacy group Rail Back on Track said there remained “serious issues” with south-east Queensland’s public transport system, including poorly distributed bus services and an increasingly unreliable train system, due largely to signalling issues.
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