TRANSLINK BUS FOR MSM & MARIST - Eatons Hill / Albany Creek +

Request for a much needed Translink Bus from Eatons Hill / Albany Creek / Bridgeman Downs plus surrounding areas to Ashgrove (Mt St Michael's College (MSM) and Marist College).

Two services each way are requested Monday to Friday.  The first sevice would arrive about 7am and the second service would arrive at about 8.15am.

The return services would leave about 3.20-3.30pm and the second service would leave at approximately 5.00pm travelling along Wardell Street / Old Northern Road / South Pine Road to cnr of Queen Elizabeth Drive and Rosmarin Avenue.  

 

TO SCHOOL...........

Cnr. Rosmarin Av. and Queen Elizabeth Drive

IGA Eatons Hill (Queen Elizabeth Drive, Eatons Hill)

Travel along South Pine / Old Northern Rd / Wardell Street

Turn into Amarina Avenue (to drop the MSM students at bus stop opposite BBC Library).

Turning around on Amarina roundabout heading back onto Wardell St turning left

Left into Frasers Rd, Ashgrove, dropping the students at the bus stop on the Marist grounds.

FROM SCHOOL........

Collect students from Amarina Avenue (opposite BBC Library)

Turning around on Amarina roundabout heading back onto Wardell St turning left

Left into Frasers Rd, Ashgrove, dropping the students at the bus stop on the Marist grounds.

Then back onto Frasers Rd, and turn Left onto Wardell St

Continue along Wardell St / Old Northern Rd

Turn left into Eatons Crossing Rd, Eatons Hill

Left at Queen Elizabeth Dve (ending at  Cnr. Rosmarin Av. and Queen Elizabeth Drive)

 

Currently the only available bus service is provided by Brisbane Bus Lines and attracts NO GOVERNMENT FUNDING making the cost of fares extremely high.  Single tickets or 10 Trip Ticket is purchased through the bus driver using cash.

If a Translink Bus Service was made available, students would be able to use a GoCard which is Government Funded and hence much cheaper. 

For example, bus fare from Eatons Hill to Ashgrove through Brisbane Bus Lines is currently $8 return trip per day ($40 for 10 trips).  However, Translink bus service (Thompson Bus Services) from Eatons Hill to Padua/Mt Alvernia is HALF the price at $4.20 return per day ($21 per week).

Through Brisbane Bus Lines there is only 1 bus in the morning & 1 bus in the afternoon available.  As a result, this limited service does not suit the majority and a lot of parents are then required to drive students to school as no other form of transport is available.

Translink Feedback (Ph: 13 12 30) indicated that the more parents who phone requesting a bus service/extra services, that the request would be considered more solidly.

*** Therefore, to achieve a better school bus service for your child/ren, please contact Translink on the above number & ask to leave feedback. They will provide you with a Reference Number which will be followed up.  Also please don't forget to sign this petition ***

Hopefully, in the near future we will be provided a more useable school bus service for our children.