While council bus drivers mostly do a fantastic job, something is clearly amiss in the city.
Walking regularly through Brisbane’s CBD, it has become clear the Queensland Police Service’s entire operational budget could be covered if officers issued a fine every time a bus runs a red light.
The associated risk to public safety is problem enough, but so is an apparent lack of data held by authorities. The CityGlider going through the Adelaide Street pedestrian crossing when I was getting lunch this very same day was not recorded by a police officer.Any regular pedestrian in the CBD could attest to how often this happens. The number of fines simply does not correlate with the frequency of the breaches.
Brisbane’s bus drivers mostly do a fantastic job and deserve the thanks they get, but something is clearly amiss in the city.undue pressure on drivers to meet route timelines“The running times that the drivers are expected to do – they are given 50 minutes or an hour to come in from Bracken Ridge, when the actual trip takes an hour and 10 minutes,” he said.
“There’s a factor with drivers wanting to maintain the timetable as best they can, and that can push them a little bit in terms of taking risks that they perhaps should not take.“I think sometimes they do actually get caught at lights, that can occur, but instances of drivers deliberately running a red light is a bit concerning – that shouldn’t happen at all.
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