I would KILL for Melbourne's public transport. Or Sydney's, omg.
Adelaide is mostly run on buses. We have literally four rail lines, two that go out north, one to the southern beaches (which is out of commission for about a year while they upgrade it) and one to the south. Nothing servicing the eastern suburbs or the Hills, certainly nothing of any regularity, no bus services TO the said train stations or any sort of streamlining.
We have one tram line, which the SA government made a big deal of going from the city centre to the Entertainment Centre. That's about 3km away.
Buses are it. My road is supposedly a 15 minute Go Zone, meaning you're never supposed to be waiting more than 15 minutes for a bus from 6am to... 8pm? I think? Since moving here, I've never seen it earlier than 5 minutes late, regularly seen it 15 minutes late, and three times in two months been waiting for more than half an hour. I decided two weeks before making the switch to trains to not validate my ticket if it was more than 15 minutes, so in those two weeks, they lost $21 out of me, which is seven trips' worth.
The drivers are surly and rude, several buses don't even HAVE aircon, let alone aircon that works over 30C, they never have enough services for the number of people using them then use the big bendy buses on underused routes, there are virtually no services that don't go between X and the city, so if you want to go anywhere else you have to go into the city and change buses to get back out to where you're going...
Don't take your public transport for granted, it's shitloads better than ours D:
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Date: Sun, Mar. 27th, 2011 11:04 am (UTC)Adelaide is mostly run on buses. We have literally four rail lines, two that go out north, one to the southern beaches (which is out of commission for about a year while they upgrade it) and one to the south. Nothing servicing the eastern suburbs or the Hills, certainly nothing of any regularity, no bus services TO the said train stations or any sort of streamlining.
We have one tram line, which the SA government made a big deal of going from the city centre to the Entertainment Centre. That's about 3km away.
Buses are it. My road is supposedly a 15 minute Go Zone, meaning you're never supposed to be waiting more than 15 minutes for a bus from 6am to... 8pm? I think? Since moving here, I've never seen it earlier than 5 minutes late, regularly seen it 15 minutes late, and three times in two months been waiting for more than half an hour. I decided two weeks before making the switch to trains to not validate my ticket if it was more than 15 minutes, so in those two weeks, they lost $21 out of me, which is seven trips' worth.
The drivers are surly and rude, several buses don't even HAVE aircon, let alone aircon that works over 30C, they never have enough services for the number of people using them then use the big bendy buses on underused routes, there are virtually no services that don't go between X and the city, so if you want to go anywhere else you have to go into the city and change buses to get back out to where you're going...
Don't take your public transport for granted, it's shitloads better than ours D: