Part of my election campaign was a push to get a free bus loop in Paddington. You might’ve seen this website, with a previous survey of five different routes.
I’ve been talking more with community groups and residents around the neighbourhood, and my team and I have also been investigating what the Council administration and the State government might actually approve.
We’ve come to this route, and with a lot of advocacy and campaigning we really think has a chance of being funded!
Here's an interactive map, so you can zoom around it to your heart's content.
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Click this link to take our short survey, or keep reading for more details.
Connecting to existing public transport
It would connect some important public transport nodes:
- Normanby bus station
- Milton train station
- Bus stops on Given Terrace for the 61, 375 and 385 routes
- (Potentially) bus stops near Musgrave Road for the 379, 380 and 381 routes
- Bus stops on Kelvin Grove Road for the 345 and 390 routes
- Bus stop 4 on Milton Road for the 470 and 475 routes
This map shows these interchange stops. Click on each stop to see every bus and train route that it connects to.
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This map shows the full bus routes for the high-frequency connections. Other layers show routes that we want to upgrade to high-frequency, and new routes that we want across suburbs, and you can always get more info about this at sealchongwah.com/busboost. Click around to see the different routes.
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Linking to our school and university campuses
Click around to see how it would connect schools around the area.
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Connecting our local high streets and weekend markets
Click around to see the different high streets, villages, markets and shops that are nearby.
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These kinds of bus loop make it much easier to do 'trip-chaining' - like going to the markets, then the pharmacy, then the park, then a café on a local high street, all before heading home again. Imagine being able to ditch the car for all of the weekend or afternoon errands!
Connecting with nature car-free
This loop would also connect with a couple of key bus routes that run to some of the beautiful nature around Brissie.
The 471, while not as frequent as it should be, heads from the city to Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, and the summit lookout itself. With this new bus loop, you'd be able to connect from Red Hill, Kelvin Grove or Paddington to a bus up the mountain.
The 385 BUZ runs every 15 minutes or less, and you can ride it all the way to the Enoggera reservoir. With this new bus loop, you could get a frequent, reliable connection to this route, making the whole trip possible to do car-free! No more fighting for space in that crowded car-park.
I'm excited to fight for this loop for our community, but first I want to make sure that it's what everybody wants. The more people fill in this survey, the more pressure it will build on the Council, so please ask your friends, family, and neighbours to complete it too: