This is why the current inline Wooloongabba Station location doesn’t make sense. All east buses have to either use existing station (legibility challenges) or skip the station all together.
Hence the need to convert Gabba stadium into Live Arena
Or build live arena above station & convert existing gabba stadium to parklands in its centre
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Well gee, the Olympics did get the state to finally get off their butts after 25 years and commit to building DSCRL.
to Birtyna
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They still have to actually start though 
Beerburrum to Beerwah duplication has been committed to since the mid 2010s by various state and federal governments and now they’re finally starting to relocate underground services so they can hopefully start proper construction later this year. Only took a decade!
My prediction is they’ll start on DSCL in the next 2-3 years, but then a combination of weather delays and industrial action throughout the project will mean they maybe hopefully with some luck might get it to Caloundra by the time the games roll around. I still don’t believe they can deliver it to Birtinya (considering this would involve 1km of tunnelling) by 2032 but happy to be wrong.
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Exactly. They are very time careless. The number of projects that will need to be done concurrently is considerable. They don’t give one much confidence.
Yes, I was disappointed when I drove by landsborough late 2023 and realised that the only thing from the Beerburrum to Beerwah duplication that was done so far had been upgrades on steve irwin way and the car park works. Not even the road over rail overpasses were done and the project had be announced with much fanfare by the then Palaszczuk goverment at least since 2018.
So here we are now, 7 if not more years later and the duplication of a relatively small section is yet not done. How can we have any confidence that heavy rail will be done by 2032?
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I think they should do what they did with the Springfield line extension. Run express BRT to Beerburrum and then as each station is built, peel back the BRT connecting via service until the line is complete.
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This is an excellent idea.
Roys Road/Bells Creek Arterial Road literally mirror the DSCL alignment from Beerwah to Caloundra so running buses would be incredibly easy. I sometimes catch the 605/615 services that link Caloundra and Maroochydore to Landsborough Station and there are almost no seats left some days, nobody can say that the demand isn’t there.
Unfortunately the TMR Sunshine Coast rail office are not very responsive, my last enquiry from a few weeks ago is still unanswered.
*TMR Sunshine Coast rail project team, not DSCL project team, my bad.
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Its funny those in the industry and the IOC are acting like cheerleaders when the QLD Government announced that they “have to” bypass planning laws to “deliver” projects “on-time”.
Love the IOC spin - “its not bypassing, its fast-tracking”
What could possibly go wrong?
It need to be next year, otherwise another broken promise on top of another.
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TBH, there are no real broken promises. The current Government is doing quite well.
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I guess the fact they won’t be building rail to Maroochydore by 2032 doesn’t count, then?
Why?
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The PDA proposes the closing of the Jurgens St/Logan Rd so buses have to be managed somehow.
An alternative to entering the busway is for east-west buses to remain on the surface streets in Transit Lane along Stanley Street and crossing over to City West not into the CBD. Can change at Gabba Or Cultural Centre to get into the CBD.
Still need to work out how to get Logan Rd Buses onto Stanley Street. Balaclava St makes the most sense and opportunity to widen the road for transit lanes.
Why not through Wellington and Lisburn/Overend?
Wellington Rd is an option. Balaclava I think is easier to widen though as lots of car parking in front of buildings. Either way there are a few turns to get to Stanley Street.
Personally I hate how Lisburn cuts through the suburb as a vehicle sewer. Wellington Rd is the main thoroughfare and we should stick to it being the main road.
I wouldn’t be taking anything of the existing Woolloongabba PDA as gospel. I highly doubt it will remain in its current form with the relocation of the main arena to Victoria Park.
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Slight adjustments to reflect changing role of stadium Area and CRR site but rest is fine
I added Lisburn in there because Wellington is a one-way road north of the intersection with Overend (as is Lisburn). I guess they can make Wellington a two-way road up to Stanley or even Vulture. Making it two-way all the way to Shafston might be tricky because of the proximity to the Story Bridge and tunnel entrance.
From my observation the change of lanes to turn right happens before the lights anyway. All moving too fast past the lights to change lanes and road bends to left.
I have also never seen 2 lanes of traffic exiting the tunnel east. Typically single lane of traffic despite the 2 lanes available.