Transport Minister (with a Director General) had a great idea last June to initiate an inquiry into finding ways to slash the cost of running Translink by slashing bus routes.
Politicians have been urging their people contributes to the talkfest.
Lord Mayor Graham Quirk was awake up to their tricks and has muscled up.
Translink has backed off and the City Council has to start again, inquiring into the management of Brisbane bus services. Good on you Lord Mayor.
How much money, energy and bureacracy has the LNP wasted on a stunt.
A cashed up Transport department wants to be seen to be doing stuff - holding an inquiry, using an old shock ad campaign to promote road safety, silly billboards.
It's all about being seen to do something and Brisbane City Council caught them out.
"proposed changes put forward by the State Government are off the table"It's a polite way of saying the Council has stood up to a review by an unelected and unaccountable agency, Translink.
The Lord Mayor reckons Brisbane's bus services are not broken with patronage increasing from 48 million passengers to 80 million since 2004 - so a major overhaul was not required.
A case study
Translink engineers worked hard to install a sign at the DFO stop designed to provide useful information to patrons. However they had the wrong information, it referred to another nearby bus stop, so it was worse than wrong.
One side, requires enlisiting a skinny person to slide in between the sign and the concrete wall to try and discover the information. The exercise cost thousands and is another reason why transport is so expensive.
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