All public transport facilities that are part of the active service should be State Govt owned. Stops, signage, bike parking. Where things like the busway or Light Rail crosses a Council road it should be still be State owned. I assume the Light Rail ROW on Gold Coast is State owned.
Yes it is, because it was funded primarily by the Queensland Government, unlike the Brisbane Metro changes to the Cultural Centre which has been solely funded by BCC, and the new tunnel alignment which BCC is providing.
^^Looking back at King George Sq Station initial build compared with today below
I wonder how long it will take bus passengers to get used to having to open the doors themselves. 
If they are regular rail commuters, probably not long. Iām sure most bus commuters have taken the train at some point in their lives.
Mater Hill is going to be problematic when both Metro routes are running. Platform just not long enough. Unless normal bus stops at the very front position the longer buses canāt get all doors into the platform. 2 normal buses there is no chance in hell.
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Thereās enough room if you extend the platform onto the current kerbside lane, and use the current slip lane as the new kerbside lane.
There are no services that bypass Mater Hill so thereās no need for a slip lane. All for other buses they just have to queue up behind each other. They have years of practice and training thanks to The Cultural Centre/Victoria Bridge bottleneck.
Under the new bus network most bus services will be using the Captain Cook Bridge to go to Woolloongabba bypassing Mater Hill.
As a result of the BCC budget
Fans of big buses in the suburbs: Council will progress the business case into future stages of the Brisbane Metro, north to Carseldine, south to Springwood, east to Capalaba and to the Brisbane Airport Metro
(Brisbane Times, 2025).
All of them except the airport, fine. I have no idea why theyāre bothering with the airport option.
Surely the Springwood option will require minimal investment, other than facilities to charge vehicles.
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Skygate aināt the Airport and the complementary free bus they offer to the Airport is unacceptable.
Thereās aināt no Grade A busway corridors that lead to the Airport unless they are running on highways/toll tunnels. Just extend the 369 service to Skygate.
Carseldine wonāt happen at all unless they commit to finishing the missing N Busway tunnel links from Federation to Truro Streets, and from Kedron Brook to Chermside first. A northern Brisbane bus network review can occur without adding āMetroā service. Thereās no chance of busway extensions happening again. It will be just painted lines on a road at best.
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I just saw a Facebook post from Peter Russo, the MP for Toohey. Iām not sure what party he is part of, but he was posting about the Metro services being online from June 30. The feedback on the post is interesting - mostly about the service being called Metro when theyāre just buses, and also that it is not really the game changing project itās being touted as. Iād say the ratio of negative feedback to positive about the project was 3:1. People are not dumb!
He did reply to one of the comments about the Brisbane Metro name saying he agreed it should be called something different too.
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Russo is red team.
The only way they will get a name change is if red team win the next BCC election.
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Aaah that explains it. The post was very much taking the tone of taking credit for the project but blaming BCC for the things people didnāt likeā¦ 
Readers still offline on the M2 this arvo and the driver made a PA announcement alerting passengers of the fault. ātake a seat device not workingā
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Made a transfer at City Hall station and PIds off line there too. As I was waiting for an M1 about 4 M2 services rocked up within a minute of each other which caused considerable bunching.
We were also dropped off where the 333 was meant to stop due to congestion at City Hall station.
The back screen door where for the Metro at City Hall station wasnāt opening for passengers to board the M1. We all had to board via the front two screen doors.
Caught 3 M1s today. First M1 from Buranda to UMG had no working readers, second M1 almost an hour later from UMG to Buranda had working readers but the PID was out. Third M1 from Buranda to Roma Street had no working readers.
My new local city service, the 205 ran quite smoothly though, although the scheduling is so badly done, it departed George Street on time, but arrived Roma Street 15mins early going by the timetable (9:35am ex Whites Hill College, 9:56am arrive at Roma Street - scheduled to depart Whites Hill at 9:30am and arrive Roma Street at 10:11am).
Basically, TL/BCC are going to have to review the scheduling as itās not just the 205 affected like this.
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How were the queues over Victoria Bridge in the afternoon peak for those who travel that way?
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I went over the bridge in a 555 at ~6pm, and there was no queuing at that time.
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