The Race to Gold - Brisbane’s Games Transport Legacy, page 18
Early 2025: Start Business Case
Mid 2026: Complete business case.
Late 2026 to 2030: Approvals, funding, delivery.
2031: Operational.
I think everything is on-track for now.
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Any update on the renaming of KGS to City Hall? Council website simply says full rebranding will occur later in 2025, yet here we are at the tail end of the year and seems like there’s nothing
How are they going to deliver it without a seperate busway which takes ages to build. They could build a busway in 5 years, but they would be pushing it especially with required cut and cover or driven tunnels.
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The amount of property resumptions required on Old Cleveland Road (Coorparoo, Camp Hill, Carina, Carindale, etc) will be staggering alone. Expect significant community backlash and NIMBYism for the eastern busway expansion.
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No idea if this is the relevant thread (mods can decide as appropriate)
Two things from that pamphlet.
They really like ignoring the CityTrain network (a metro can’t fix everything, strengthen local feeder services adjacent to rail stations).
Secondly, ‘Universal Design’.
We’ve got blue and white METROS
We’ve got yellow trains
We’ve got green, blue and yellow, blue, maroon, yellow, cyan buses
We’ve got yellow trams
The only three universal design features that exist are the priority seating being red on all SEQ services (tram, train and bus), Translink Train, Tram and major bus hubs all sporting the orange Translink/QR logo and the smart ticketing tap on/tap off boxes.
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It’ll be Brisbanites having the hissy fit over the metro I suspect as us Redlanders are on board with a way faster way inbound/outbound but as anywhere inbound from Carindale is adequately served by buses now they’ll complain this isn’t needed.
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Yeah, I agree as well.
The only ‘problem’ I’m finding with the eastern network, however, is that Carina bus depot really don’t like utilizing their 14.5m TAG axle buses during the weekends. And for trunk routes like the 200 and 222…
Goddammit, don’t let your TAG axle buses collect dust during the weekends!
The 200 and 222 have just as much merit and popularity as the 130, 140, 150 trio. And they always get serviced by TAGs.
Occasionally you may see an articulated 200, 209, or 222 (but only once in a blue moon!)
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Indeed. I suspect one of the things that helped kill the earlier Eastern Busway was the large number of property resumptions that would be needed. See Who killed the Eastern Busway? - #28 by Ozbob
There is no way they are planning to build the original eastern busway as part of this. Engineering aside, it’s too late to find the billions of dollars that it would cost to build.
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BTQ Policy Platform
It looks like BCC is going forward with no BRT Metro service to the Western Suburbs/Indooroopilly and beyond. Extending Brisbane Metro service along Coronation Drive will address the very high level of bus route duplication in this corridor and also strengthen the case for a bus or transit lane on Coronation Drive.
It is worth noting that significant road expansion is happening in Brisbane’s west (e.g. Centenary highway and bridge expansions) to handle increased traffic. The original busway plans of the 1990s and 2000s also featured a Western Busway.
BTQ Policy Platform (2025)
Priority Expand the Brisbane Metro BRT Service
BTQ supports and advocates for the expansion of Brisbane Metro BRT services to
Indooroopilly and Chermside. Metro-style services should also be considered for other SEQ local government areas such as the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast to enhance network capacity, legibility and integration with trams and trains.
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Agreed. There isn’t the time within 6 years to design, build and construct it, let alone co-ordinate the funding between state and federal.
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If they can find $20 billion for the Gympie Rd Bypass Tollway Tunnel / Northwest Transit Corridor, then the E Busway cost peanuts.
Property resumptions are needed and this fact has been demonstrated by how many were resumed for the busways built before.
Is anyone still complaining about their land resumed for a busway 20 years ago? I suspect they got over it once they got their payout from the government.
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There are so many missed connections. The Metro should be a supplement for high quality rail transport.
Where’s the link from Capalaba to Birkdale rail or from Coorparoo to Coorparoo rail?
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An uninspiring and lazy transport policy the BCC are proposing for the 2028 election?
*Southern Metro - No room at Springy’s for those buses, as well as a battery recharge station(s), without major changes.
*Eastern Metro - if it ain’t a fully separate corridor tunnelled to Carindale, or just going to be red paint on bitumen to Carindale, then forget it.
*Northern Metro - unfinished tunnelled N Busway components from Federation St to Truro St, and from Kedron Brook to Chermside. No room at Chermside for those buses without major changes. Even more tunnelling from Chermside to Carseldine required. Likely won’t go as far as Chermside because of costs.
*Airport Metro - [description is misleading - is only allowed go to as far as Skygate. No direct connection to terminals!] - waste of money; extend the 369 to Skygate or take the 590, Is The Doomben line BRT brainfart part of this?
Very Rough Cost Estimation:
*Southern - $800 million, if they build a new station at level with the busway rather than looping down to the current station. Therefore better of staying at 8MP.
*Eastern - $3 billion to Carindale.
*Northern - $5 billion to Carseldine, or $7 billion if they stop at Chermside, and then resume to Carseldine in the future.
*Airport - not feasible. QR not given up rail line for bloody buses.
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254 & 253 feeder services respectively that currently operate that need strengthening
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They might give it up just for ease of operation as the removal of Doomben would mean train paths being freed up for more useful services.
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Seems like a lot of Rochedale operators called in sick today. But not for this Kangaroo Bus Lines operator 
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I think your cost estimates are realistic. If anything the Eastern busway probably more. The Brisbane Metro bus has had a largely free ride on the existing busway infrastructure, so the extensions will cost.
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Agreed. Which makes me question the financial wisdom of those kind of costs for the capacity it will offer.
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