Carbridge is under contract to Sydney Airport Corporation and is the sole monopoly provider of that service, the alternative being walking or taking a taxi. Its users don't have a choice if they want to use that car park. I looked at the Tripadvisor reviews. It seems that a lot of people are unhappy with the service, but it's a case of beggars can't be choosers. The general drift of advice is to allow plenty of time, because buses will pass you without stopping because they can't fit everybody on board. That is, when 60-70 passengers have squeezed into the front 2/3 of the bus, regardless of how empty the back is, the bus is considered full, a syndrome that has its counterpart in regular commuter services where we see a bus pass the stop "full", yet you can see plenty of daylight through the back half of the bus. The Carbridge experience is a testbed for our busiest commuter bus services in general.Linto63 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 25, 2022 8:05 am Make a point by all means, but what does banging on endlessly on this forum about it achieve? Two-fifths of five-eighths of nothing. That Carbridge manages to remain in business suggests that it does meet its customers needs, if it didn't revenue would dry up and it would go out of business.
This is a moderately crowded scene with only two standees in the back one third of the bus because few want to tackle the stairs and within the next several minutes a melee will break out as it stops at the terminals and people from the back fight their way down the stairs and through the crowd to reach their bags on the racks which are thoughtlessly located down the front of the bus, rather than distributed through it, pushing their way through people at the front trying to exit through the centre doors:
This level of demand calls for a layout like this, so that the true physical capacity of 80-90 passengers can be efficiently and productively achieved, with no inhibitions on passenger exchange:
As it turned out, Custom Denning obviously picked up the design vibes, though we haven't quite got the back door back yet. If nobody raises the issues, we'll continue down the same apathetic, counter-productive path that almost every other local bus supplier is blindly following, judging by the shameful display of poor designs at the Bus Expo. Those second-rate suppliers obviously have plenty of encouragement from status quo supporters like yourself and so we see everything that is wrong about Sydney buses for the past 70 years perpetuated because nobody could be bothered questioning it.
Thank you In Transit. Keep the light burning.