New BNE pickup area with 20 mins free parking to open late August.

[samh004]

Main problems with having two separate roads before was the foot traffic crossing the road, which really held up the flow.

Dividing up the area into drop-off and pick-up zones will be of little use, and will be ignored.

While I agree that people will invariably park as close to the terminal as possible, regardless of if the road is drop-off/pick-up only, with the new overhead walkway I think the simple solution would be to eliminate pedestrian crossings and erect fences, so you can't cross the roads and stuff up the traffic, and you're forced up the walkway.

What BNE really needs is:

• One level closest to the terminal for departures.
• Another level closest to the terminal for arrivals.
• Another set of drop off / pick up zone(s) further away from the terminal, with access to the terminal provided by a walkway which does not require walking through the roads corresponding to the two zones listed above.

IIRC the BNE D Master Plan, put back stupidly by at least 5 years, was to design a full two-level terminal with upper level departures and lower level arrivals.

Essentially what I was thinking... and of course, a two-level terminal would be great, but not sure how feasible it is to do that. If only the second runway/apron area could be sped up in terms of construction, I'd think building a new domestic terminal and then refurbishing/closing/designating the old/existing terminal as LCC would make much more sense. Of course, if the second runway is 6 years away, you have to question whether that time frame is too long?

 

[MAX_1]

Brisbane Airport pick up area to return

From the Brisbane Times

Family and friends will again be allowed to pick up airport passengers from the road in front of the domestic terminal.
Brisbane Airport Corporation has been inundated with about 300 complaints since they made the decision in August to separate motorists dropping off passengers from motorists arriving to collect passengers.
BAC chief executive Julieanne Alroe announced this morning that the change would take effect from next month.
"As of November 6, people will once again be allowed to use the road in front to pick-up passengers from what is known as the departures road," she said this morning.


Read more: Brisbane Airport Pick Up Returns After Customer Complaints​

 

[VHOEJ]

Re: Brisbane Airport pick up area to return

Common sense - Brisbane and Melbourne have the pick up areas that generally work well, why make something more difficult just to make money?

 

[straitman]

Re: Brisbane Airport pick up area to return

Common sense - Brisbane and Melbourne have the pick up areas that generally work well, why make something more difficult just to make money?

Because they thought they could get away with it :!:

 

[coyote25]

Re: Brisbane Airport pick up area to return

Because they thought they could get away with it :!:

Wow that's a rare win for passengers and a lose for a monpoly provider.

 

[k_sheep]

Re: Brisbane Airport pick up area to return

It's not much of a win given it will return to a complete dogs' breakfast.

It was chaos when you could pick up and drop off from the left and right sides of the road - whose bright idea was it to halve it??

 

[medhead]

Re: Brisbane Airport pick up area to return

the obvious answer is 2 areas, drop off and pick up and separate cars and people with over head walkways. Maybe separate out the taxis as well. In BNE one thing that always struck me was the absolute mess that was the left lane drop off/pick up area but the right lane was always clear-ish. I used to always tell people to pick me up from the right lane near thrifty. no problemo.

In ADL pick up was always a mess, I think because of the taxis taking up a big chunk of the room. now they've combined the drop off and pick up and I think taxis will be separated eventually and put in an overhead walk way. So not too bad and the walk is not that far. I'll be interested to see how the drop off and pick up being together will work. Could be ok if they have a 2 lane system. But adelaide drivers aren't the best and might miss the whole right lane thing. Still I'm always in the long term carpark so it doesn't really affect me.