My morning Gold Coast train was cancelled. The next one in 30 minutes. Lots of high school students will be late for school today.
No point taking the 725 bus as it takes 54 minutes to go from Coomera to Helensvale vs 5 minutes by train. The TX7 bus is more direct, but it doesn't run that early, and it still takes 47 minutes.
@timrichards@tom_andraszek Sadly most of Brisbane's rail lines are stuck at 30 minute frequencies outside peak hour. It's a bit odd that they think it's adequate. (Not that Melbourne's 20 for most stations is adequate either.)
An example of #Unwalkable#GoldCoast, #Australia. I didn't plan my bike ride carefully enough yesterday. I looked at an old map and didn't see footpaths, but I assumed that part of a recent A$25 million redesign of M1 exit 57 in Oxenford was adding some pedestrian infrastructure. I was wrong. There is no way to walk from #Oxenford to #Helensvale here. There is no way to safely ride a bike either. Even the painted #bike lanes end. This is a people-hostile design in the middle of the city.
@tom_andraszek Agree - that’s stroad levels of hostile design.
From looking at recent satellite maps, there is a way to walk between the two suburbs - but it’s an inconvenient and completely indirect path that takes you south along Siganto Dr, down to a pedestrian footbridge across the M1 to. the Old Pacific Highway.
I’m also betting the route isn’t signposted, either at the M1 Interchange, or Hope Island Dr/Old Pacific Motorway - meaning most pedestrians wouldn’t even know about it.