Forget the “metro”. There are many good reasons to jump on the BERT train. Or, more accurately, the BERT bus.
Visions of Paris, Moscow and myriad cities around the world, with their high-frequency underground railway systems that are the envy of anything Brisbane has to offer, immediately sprang to mind.But then, scratching just below the service, the nomenclature of Quirk’s keystone election promise started to look flimsy.
Because the world knows what a metro is, and it knows what a metro isn’t. What Brisbane will have, come 2032, just ... isn’t. Calling it Brisbane Metro, Dow says, is talking down what it really is – a world-leading bus rapid transit system. “In Europe, the trams, the buses, the trains, it does blur a little bit. I’ve just come back from Europe, as a matter of fact, and sometimes it’s kind of hard to tell what you’re actually dealing with.
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