Where the State fails and Local Government steps in - a study of the Bayside City Council buses
Outline Melbourne's bus system is the poor cousin of the public transport offering, and it has long been a point of contention between the State and most Local Governments (MTF 2018) . This is particularly true for areas outside the operating radius of the tram system, because the tram network (at route length x 400m either side of the track) has a density of 2.35 vehicles per km² while the amalgamated bus system only has 0.71 buses per km² (the remaining area in the Melbourne U rban G rowth B oundary ); and the ratio between these values approximately matches the typical service frequencies (vicsig.net; busaustralia.net; P ublic T ransport V ictoria 2019 ) . Bayside City Council is on the southern edge of the tram system, so it experiences this differential more sharply than, say, Dandenong, which is entirely dependant on the pathetic bus offering without being teased by something better just over the horizon. To take just one example, at time of writing the Route 64 tr...