brisbane: a frequent network map

In the post on including Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) on rapid transit maps, I showed a bit of Brisbane's rapid transit map, which includes the busway but not its branches, since the branches aren't rapid.

(Actually, to be quite fair, it's really a rail + rapid transit map, as it includes rail lines that do not rise to 15-minute frequencies all day.)

To complement that map, here's Brent Palmer's latest draft of a frequent network map for Brisbane.  For a fully legible version, see his blog here.  (Click on the small map there for the big one, then click again to zoom in so you can read it.  Despite the photo of Seattle on his banner, his blog seems pretty dedicated to Brisbane.)

This should give you a sense of both the extent of Brisbane's frequent network and the way the network functions through the busway.  The busway is the band of routes extending southeast to Eight Mile Plains and north to "RBWH" (Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital). 

In the lower left of the map, the bridge across the river into the University of Queensland ("UQ Lakes") is Brisbane's first green bridge, a bridge for transit, bicycles, and pedestrians only.  The most distinctive feature of Brisbane's inner city geography is the winding river with the remarkable shortage of bridges.  This bridge allows transit to serve a trip that would be much, much more circuitous for a motorist, as there are no other car-capable bridges anywhere nearby.

Graphic: Brent Palmer

Comments

[Pantheon]

Ah yes! This is exactly the kind of thing I was picturing. The thick lines are the busway and the thin lines are the regular surface-route branches. Beautiful!

[Jarrett at HumanTransit.org]

Thanks Pantheon!  Your typo actually inspired this post!

[Max Headway]

The number of line colours running alongside each other is much greater than I would've wished, but that's because the route configurations are so complex and inconsistent. Routes sharing a line colour are not necessarily co-scheduled, but follow the same corridor downtown (or to UQ), and terminate at the same point.

As for the Seattle photo in the blog header, that's the city where I met my now-wife; that particular shot also shows trolleybus overhead!

[Jarrett at HumanTransit.org]

Attention, Seattle Department of Tourism!  People really do come all the way from Australia to look at those "unsightly" trolleybus wires!  And then they spend money!

[Brent Palmer]

Having just revised the map to reflect changes to the fare structure (as well as other tweaks), would it be possible to replace the original version with the updated one?

[Brent Palmer]

On second thoughts, the post links through to the current version anyway. My mistake!