Moorabool Street Bus Interchange - In Depth
The Moorabool Street bus interchange is a contentious issue in Geelong with many prominent locals calling to remove it and to revert bus services to their old complex form. It's not hard to find pieces online from its critics, The Geelong Advertiser has published over 20 articles since 2015 in support of dumping it. Making matters worse the Andrews government has been silent on the topic and is seemingly unwilling to address problems with the current arrangement. In this article, I intend to explain my vision for the space and reaffirm why the busses must continue as they are but why the stop infrastructure and surroundings must be changed. Busses operating route 1 and route 25 services departing the Moorabool Street Interchange. [Me] Part 1: The History Prior to October 2010 most busses that serviced Geelong picked up and dropped off passengers at locations all around the CBD. The map below retrieved from the McHarrys website in 2007 shows how spread out stops were. Map of Geelong