I used Apple Maps and photos to make this.
I’m totally dreaming here.
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That’s either a lot of resumptions, or a lot of tunnelling!
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Lol.
Might be best for brt/metro style plus we got 598)599 on some of it.
I’d be keen for it but I know that’s dreaming.
It would be mostly tunnels.
If we’re going to all the expense of extensive tunnelling for dozens of kilometres, it’s poor value for money to use it for a lower capacity mode like buses, instead of trains. Buses are better used on the surface through priority lanes.
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I like what I see there, especially on the southside. Station placements are logical. Though getting from Darra to Albany Creek is another issue. I have my own ideas around this that I may post at some point, which also use the Doomben like but with a different route beyond that.
We’re putting trains in the tunnels. Not buses.
Putting Buses in tunnels is very dumb in my opinion, even if there’s a somewhat valid argument to do so.
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Indeed so. But the comment I was responding to was advocating using the tunnels for BRT or “Metro”.
Why not start at light rail because buses are not suitable, and then upgrade to light metro?
I also had an idea of the Eagle Junction to Aspley section, except it would go to Bracken Ridge/Carseldine. It would be a rail version of the Gympie Rd Bypass tunnel and the unfinished (forgotten) N busway tunnel extension to Chermside project in one.
Tunnelling is initiable part of the plan, but it is needed. I’d market it as a tollway tunnel for rail except the toll fare is 50c and is publically owned.
Access to Bridgment Downs, and Albany Creek areas can be made by feeder buses or even bus lanes.
Firstly light rail never ends up being upgraded to rapid transit standards. Secondly, Carseldine area is already served by the trains.
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Under this proposal North West Brisbane will get their own underground rail line that will be more frequent then existing buses and rail.
Bracken Ridge while not having a train station will get access. and be part of a N Busway expansion promised a while ago, just in a different form. Transitioning to street level can be made at Carseldine/Fitzgibbon thanks to the QLD Government for building that new overpass.
Is LRT not considered rapid transit when it runs on a fully-segregated corridor such as a tunnel, at frequencies of 3 to 5 minutes?
This is all great but aren’t we prioritising upgrading the great circle line. (Aka bus frequency and span of hours).
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To me rapid transit is full on subway systems
I realise that but it’s a long way off and we need to advocate for fixes and improvements that are doable over the next few years.
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