Fifty-cent fares will now apply to the $1.4 billion Brisbane Metro network when it begins services later this year, Transport Minister Bart Mellish finally confirmed on Sunday.
Mellish confirmed a new public transport funding model between the council and state government would be signed before the Miles administration goes into caretaker mode in September ahead of the October 26 election. Brisbane City Council last week raised serious concerns that the new agreement would not be signed before September. Schrinner said a deal was required by the state government before the Brisbane Metro could launch.
“It would be too short a time to explain the complex bus changes. Try explaining to someone, ‘you know that bus you have been catching for 30 years? It’s all changing.’ ” Mellish declined to comment specifically on Brisbane City Council receiving a share of ticket revenue, which currently goes to the state government.