Public transport usage, particularly in and around Brisbane, has been in steady decline now for a
few years. One very logical explanation for that is that fares simply have risen too much and
commuters are increasingly opting for ride sharing with family, friends and colleagues to
go to work.
If it's more convenient and less expensive - why wouldn't you think about
ditching public transport for ride sharing?
The State Government should be looking to make all public transport cheaper, not more
expensive, to get a lot more people on a bus or train, and at the same time, increase and extend
services to make it much less of a rigmarole and hassle for commuters to use them and get to
where they want to be, when they want to be.
Labor in Queensland, true to bad old form which goes back to the Beattie era, looks set to give the
green light to a big public transport fare hike, just when Premier Palaszczuk and her transport minister
Jackie Trad should be doing everything in their power to promote public transport usage before more
Queenslanders, besides the ones who already have, give buses and trains the flick.
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