This is a giant admission of failure. It’s also a bit of a worry for a very rapidly growing stretch of residential catchment on Ipswich Rd.
Let’s remember that this is part of a section of Ipswich Rd (Woolloongabba Busway to Moorooka Train Station) that was going to get “bus priority” treatment under SEQRTP 2021.
Sure, it might (currently) be faster to use the busway, but that means thousands of people living south of Stanley St lose the potential to get a BUZ.
That part of Ipswich Rd is huge and could easily accommodate bus lanes (excepting the bit near the Norman Hotel).
Previous discussion this stretch here, esp the Jurgens St diversion.