Selling pre-loaded Go Cards on buses, getting rid of expensive paper tickets, dropping prices to $2 for zone one journeys, getting extra Gold Coast trains and charging CBD parking operators a levy to make city parking more expensive.

These are among the ideas experts floated to make public transport better value, after Fairfax Media revealed yesterday public transport was now more expensive per kilometre in southeast Queensland than in Sydney or Melbourne.

Stskeholders have offered their advice on how to improve public transport in Brisbane. Credit:Michelle Smith

Almost all the public transport experts canvassed agreed persuading the federal government to fund Brisbane's underground rail project should be the medium to long-term priority.

However the experts proposed a range of other strategies to improve Brisbane's public transport scheme in the medium to short-term.