I have been catching trains full-time in Brisbane for 16 years and overall, they have been ok. Whilst trains have their obligatory breakdowns and random twilight zone 'idle time' at stations for no apparent reason, after catching buses FT for 12 months now..they at least give the illusion you're covering ground over a blue, yellow and white crawl to work.

Compared to driving and buses, in all fairness QR have always provided a 'reasonable' amount on on-time service. What annoys me that If I still had my 1994 city-train timetable I got when I started catching trains to school…the timetable has barely changed since then in terms of new services.

So the population growth of Brisvegas from 1994-2010? I'd hate to think but one would of thought the available services would have doubled.

Moving out to Richlands soon where the new station is (and the first major new railway project from QR in nearly 15 years) I hope they put enough services to accommodate the mass onslaught of people that will use it out there who have been left dry for trains and buses for all these years.

Maybe a topic to decide what mass-technology would assist in killing time for commuters? setting up a WLAN for each train to allow for carriage speed dating?…

In all honesty, the trains are no better than buses. Luckily, you don't also have traffic congestion, accidents on the road (on a regular basis these days), horridly late buses (also regular now), and generally no aircon on most of the trips to forest lake.

QR and the bus services all need a solid boot up the butt. Increase the amount we pay for transport to the point where it's ridiculously high, and for what? I look forward to seeing the changes they keep promising us. I still see the same packed buses, at the same time… so what's changing? Aside from us being ripped off!