Prestige 
Buses getting stuck in traffic is a fact of life in Brisbane.
Buses pretending to be light rail, will only makes a more compelling case to have light rail.
If there’s no N busway expansion, then there’s no metro expansion to Chermside. Since there are no Olympic events in and around Chermside, it won’t be a priority. 2032 is an election year for the BCC.
Remember the “metro” is going to solve all the transports needs of Brisbane for the Olympics. 
- Except it won’t!
There is a difference between a mode and the priority it is given.
Both buses and light rail can be given Priority A or B which keeps them out of traffic.
Any metro extension north needs to go at least to Aspley! not just stopping at Chermside
Why not just extend the BUZ 333 to Aspley instead? 
Is there a demand for a direct bus service from Aspley?
Extend the 333 to Aspley in the interim, you mean? A metro to Chermside would replace the 333.
Today, Aspley and Chermside are connected by the 340 BUZ (which runs via Hamilton & Webster Rds). This link is perhaps 1% of the 340’s patronage (the single biggest pair is maybe 7%).
Part of the justification for running a metro past Chermside is that the most likely depot the forum’s been able to identify so far is at Bill Brown Sports Reserve in Fitzgibbon.
How you get there from Chermside is more of an open question - it’s shorter and probably faster to take Handford Rd (much like the 330).
Actually, I’ve remembered the map of proposed extensions - the Northside one goes to Carseldine via Aspley.
The author raises some good points. The bus reform to accompany M1 is not anywhere near enough consolidation.
TMR is supposed to have already finished a bus priority study for this stretch of Gympie Rd.. No idea where this landed under the LNP.
TMR has also either commenced or scheduled future planning on the following road segments: Lutwyche Road (Federation Street to Truro Street), local road: detailed planning underway with completion proposed later [in 2023].
Welcome Southsider!
Yes, there are many gaps in the existing rail and busway networks that need to be addressed.
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cheers! It’d be worth someone RTIing all these bus priority studies… High risk of their never seeing the light of day if Council lose their nerve and the new LNP State government “forgets” about them.
We should also look to RTI the Central Gold Coast East-West Passenger Transport Study and Passenger Transport System Strategy. These are also not out in the wild from what I can tell.
https://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/projects/central-gold-coast-east-west-passenger-transport-study
Can someone from @working_committee perhaps assist you?
They worth anything though? The mind set that created today’s mess or even just allowed it to continue unabated hamstrings any trie bus network reform. Just fiddle here and there not throw it all out and start with blank page.
Be good if they convert existing airport line viadacts for metro along with toombul & dfo/airport business park metro stations…and build extension underground from doomben to eagle farm domestic, international termibals as well as cruise terminal plus underwater link to port of brisbane.
Reason why suggest underground and better connections in area is the runway.
Also if metro convert, itll open buses to feed info suburbs and not just cbd ie 369, top half of 598, eastern half of 599, 590 etc. While new undeeground would fuel and keep economy moving & actually bust congestion for once on lytton rd
Doomben - Eagle Farm - International - Domestic - Cruise/myleton - Port of bne
Give workers at three port stations fee waiver if they register their go card to a waiver list & update timely
So much potential i see to make brisbane a better city.
BTQ is not going to support removing perfectly yet underutilized rail network. Next!
I did not mention remove, i am saying conversion of one and extend the other to utilize the area better
Rail viaduct conversion is unlikely.
Two large infrequent trains can share and run on a single track, which is what the Airport line is.
As a busway it would not work with a single viaduct. With multiple buses they all need to pass each other, so the viaduct would require duplication and $$
Also completely unnecessary! BCC Metro are low capacity compared to even the infrequent rail service
Yeah…it’s 2025, it’s a “bus”, on an existing busway, all true…but who really believes the QldGov is, any time soon, going to back a multi-billion dollar RAIL based Metro for Brisbane??? “Brissy” 4ever the Cinderella City…