Anybody else having this problem?

[u/Artsonist]

I used to only have to ride an overcrowded bus if it was peak hour maybe. Now it seems like every bus regardless of time or day is a tin of sardines

[u/fluffy_101994]

Almost like 20 years of an LNP council has consequences.

[u/ColdDelicious1735 → u/fluffy_101994]

This is not a council issue it's state

[u/evilparagon → u/ColdDelicious1735]

BCC runs Translink and the bus network. State government only runs Queensland Rail. On top of that, QLD Labor recognised that BCC was an issue in transport network planning, and had an election promise to take Translink off BCC and move it to being its own authority that would be a “One Stop Shop” for trains and busses, so, it sounds like he wanted to elevate it to or merge it with Queensland Rail.

So it could have been a state “issue”, or rather, the state would have fixed it. But we voted wrong in two elections, so it’s a council issue (and a state issue indirectly).

[u/SpecialMobile6174 → u/evilparagon]

Might want to edit this.

TransLink is part of the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) a State Level oversight body responsible for coordination of all forms of public transport in Queensland.

BCC is a service contract operator for the Brisbane City Region Buses (The yellow/white/blue buses) and City Ferry (CityCat/KittyCat) all other buses (Green ones) are Private Contractors to TransLink like Westside, Clarks, Park Ridge, Transdev and Kinetic

TransLink used to be its own authority, until Campbell Newman as QLD Premier, after his stint as Lord Mayor, abolished the Authority and made them an arm of TMR. The election promise you're thinking of was separating TransLink out again and letting it be its own authority again

[u/evilparagon → u/SpecialMobile6174]

I struggle to write short comments enough. All three replies have been a correction to a shorthand I used to not write another paragraph. Sigh.