Public Transport to our airports - what's cheapest?

[dajop]

Might be a slight hassle, though.

Not really. Less hassle to get to Albury than most of Melbourne. Just takes longer, but only one change (connect from 901 bus to the Albury train at Broadmeadows.

 

[Himeno]

Canberra public transport fares are increasing 2.75% from tomorrow. (They only announced this increase today)

From the start of the school year, the bus network is changing due to road works on the Commonwealth Ave bridge. They've announced that changes are happening, but have not yet given any timetable details.
Routes 2 (Fishwick - Train Station - Civic - Belconnen) and 3 (Airport - Civic - Belconnen) will no longer continue into the west Belconnen suburbs. New routes (12 and 13) will take over the Belconnen suburb part of those routes. No detail on frequency of those new routes (it is going to be very annoying if the bus I require to get to work is going to get cut from every 10-12 mins (weekdays) and every 30 mins (weekends) to every 30 mins on weekdays to as bad as every hour on Sat before 6pm and sunday before noon and every 2 hours on sunday afternoon).
Route 4 (main intertown route) is having frequency cut from every 5ish minutes during weekdays to every 15.
Other "rapid" routes are also having slight decreases in frequency.
Most routes getting timing changes with many routes in civic getting route adjustments.

 

[clifford]

Canberra public transport fares are increasing 2.75% from tomorrow. (They only announced this increase today)

The fare increase doesn't bother me (I'm 70 ish) but the timetable changes seem rather savage, for someone living in outer Belconnen. Just cost saving I guess (not surprised seeing all those empty buses driving around). Not to mention the Out of Service buses, which seem to outnumber the in service ones,

Seems like the unions have got the ACT Govt over a barrel on making efficiencies.