Suspect the price for the relatively short trip doesnāt help with usage in Sydney. The service itself is decent enough. Probably also depends on your final destination as to whether it works for you or not. It usually does for me.
Whatās the issue with the Brisbane service? Used it once, admittedly many years ago. Seemed to fulfil the basic function well enough.
Iāve only discovered it this year and itās changed my travel life. I can get on the 5.10 from the city and comfortably get the 6pm flight.
No traffic issues, no stress and cheap.
If you travel the loop, airtrain or to surfers its not bad. Train runs express from beenleigh to loganleigh thereafter stopping at all stations.
Try and get train to ascot or doomben it sux.
My daughter has just got back to Perth after attending one of the Taylor Swift concerts.
She couldnāt believe that free public transport wasnāt part of the ticket price.
Thatās standard practice here in Perth for any major event such as AFL, concerts etc.
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Ehhh everytime Im in Brisvegas (which is a fair bit) to and from the plane station, the airtrain has been packed , v busy imo
The numbers are actually pretty dire from the figures Iāve seen released by the airport and folks that work at the airport reckon the traffic to/from the airport is horrid as most drive or take Uber as the trains are too costly and donāt serve many parts of town. On average only about 8-10% of airport passengers are using the train which is really not ideal
Thats surprising from my experience
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Last year they had just under 2 million people use the air train yet they had over 20 million passengers through the airport plus the 25k plus staff who work there.
For comparison Sydney sits around the 22% mark but even that is poor in comparison to the better systems in the world that are up over 60%
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The real question is how many catch the 902 to Broady station and then the train to the city in Melbourne. Must be 0.0001% of travellers at leastā¦
Melbourne Airport do no favours with that 902 bus, placing it at Terminal 4, and the furthest possible point away in the Public Bus stops.
Itās true. I only catch the train to work so I can binge drink my way through the day!
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Your posts make much more sense now.
I didnāt know that.
Gold coast have free public transport for all marathoners on race day which is handy.
Surely someone would have told them that there is a Zoo nearby where we park our Kangaroos!
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Depends on where you need to go.
The new city westlink is a great toll road to and from the Sydney airport. Just a little headache getting over to mascot to jump on it to go west
Ive also used the train in the past a lot because its just been so much faster to catch a train then a cab. Especially when travelling light.
mostly comes down to price If Melbourne had a train service.
Most tasmanians get the sky buy unless have a relative picking them up from the airport.
If Skybus is still running, then its
- price
- time
- location
I do have a crazy mate that walks to the airport from the CBD.
Iāve used the Sydney trains from the airport thought it was decent.
Not sure this is a totally fair comment - part of the reason Melbourne is always so high in the liveability ranks is the quality of its transport infrastructure. A lot of the issues weāve had in recent years is the problem of urban sprawl. We havenāt built up enough, and built out too much - which means lots of new transport infrastructure is needed.
The other key issue is just how expensive it is to build infrastructure in Australia. The cost per km for rail infrastructure in Australia is astronomical, and the revenues they earn arenāt massive. I think people do really struggle to understand the vastness of Australia and our cities, the low density in which we live, and just how few people are here to actually make these projects stack up economically (noting they almost never stack up commercially).
In that context, weāve got fantastic transport infrastructure in Australia, and particularly Melbourne, because it retained the tram network.
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