There is a good discussion thread here Tennyson station - can it reopen?
Many issues canvassed. I think an events only station has not been really considered before.
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Personally, I think trying to get trains to Tennyson is not worth the operational and infrastructure complexity when Yeerongpilly is really fine as the events station. For the olympics and big tennis fixtures like the Brisbane International, shuttle buses for people with limited mobility seems fine, while most people can walk the 500-600m from the station to the venue.
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The challenge for Arup will be to integrate Victoria Park with the RNA, Exhibition Station, and the precincts on King and Brunswick St, but also to shield the games pedestrian areas/plazas/walking thoroughfares from the urban highways and main roads.
The area is such a major traffic and road freight thoroughfare, Bowen Bridge Rd and the ICB are massive noise polluters, and create the exact opposite effect of what you want in an inner city park - an escape from the city visual and noise pollution.
Cross River rail of course wonât help with the noise, the rail squeal on the curves through Vic Park is awful. So a noise cover over the vast majority of the ICB/rail line (whether thatâs a land bridge or some cheaper alternative), is almost essential to avoid a massive precinct flop. A sizeable land bridge of course would have the added bonus of politicians being able to sell the âno net loss of green spaceâ line.
A station at Victoria Park is probably essential too, long term - as getting tens of thousands of people across Bowen Bridge Rd to Exhibition post event would require major pedestrian infrastructure anyway, and the distance/hassle would likely disincentivise public transport use, and clog key elements of the road network (and we couldnât have that).
Without building a station, the type of solution required would be something in the order of sending Brunswick St into a cut and cover trench beneath Gregory Terrace, or a major pedestrian bridge running east west over the top of Bowen Bridge - ie fairly major investments anyway.
New station or not, a solution to increase the pedestrian friendliness of that northern part of Brunswick St wouldnât be the worst idea. Itâs an extremely hostile pedestrian dead zone in its current state (an urban highway) right through the middle of whatâs about to be our âworld classâ sports and entertainment precinct.
Overall itâs a messy and challenging precinct to improve on a tight budget/timeline.
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Agree Yeerongpilly is fine and only a short flat walk to the tennis centre.
It also helps dispurse the crowds easier after an event rather than funneling them onto a train platform.
They will likely have electric driverless shuttles I reckon by the Olympics as well.
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Driverless shuttles? Theyâre struggling just to get ETCS working on the network. No way in hell will they have driverless shuttles operating by then.
Iâm talking about the mini bus kind which could run to and from the station.
I believe all the infrastructure was demolished, so it would need to be a rebuild to current standards, unless a temp structure could be built.
Given that Yeerongpilly is nearby and there is a pedestrian bridge across Fairfield Road, it seems unlikely.
Brisbanetimes reports that this slogan has been in use by some churches for many years.
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Olympics organisers praying for divine intervention?
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Ha, I think they will need it!
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Canât âbelieveâ that anyone truly suggested, that as the best slogan they could come up withâŚsounds so âtry hardâ and fake 
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Itâs not the Games motto though. Itâs more of a mission statement for the organising committee. Not sure why they bothered to make it public at all.
Brisbane Lions used 2/3 of the slogan in PR 10 years ago. Itâs just the kind of bland, unimaginative buzzword marketing crap that can be instantly forgotten about.
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I wonder how they researched where that branding originated from? Traditional journalism wouldnât have been able to find such a thing, so I reckon the media just used AI to see if anyone else had a similar slogan or moto around the world.
Brisbane Olympic Legacy
Olympic venue delivery partner announced, as Victoria Park testing wraps up
The Brisbane 2032 Olympics have a new delivery partner, with the Unite32 consortium of AECOM and Laing OâRourke appointed on Wednesday to oversee and manage the delivery of 17 Games venues.
The announcement came as the Games Independent Infrastructure and Coordination Authority revealed it had almost completed the geotechnical examination of Victoria Park to determine the location of the planned 63,000-seat main Olympic stadium.
GIICA chief executive Simon Crooks said a report from that work would be ready in early January, but that did not mean the authority would immediately decide on the stadiumâs location within the 64-hectare park.
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