Question on Notice No. 635
QUESTION:
With reference to the Centenary Motorway Tunnel Feasibility Study (Darra to Toowong) being
conducted by Queensland Investment Corporation and the Department of Transport and Main
Roads—
Will the Minister (a) provide an update on the feasibility study and (b) advise when the study and
preferred options for the Centenary Motorway will be released?
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Centenary Motorway Upgrade planning
https://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/projects/centenary-motorway-upgrade-planning
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incredible that it is even being considered in today’s city planning!!
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Mind-boggling !!
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As a resident of Oxley, I am constantly amazed at the Oxley Road “status” provided to a mostly single lane road travelling through classic suburbia (complete with 40kph speed limits), which on a map looks to connote some sort of major highway of great importance.
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When there’s such obvious opportunities for vastly improved public transport yet it keeps getting overlooked.
But let’s investigate how many billions could be wasted on more roads!!!
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It seems like the heavy infrastructure agenda of the current blue team administration is being tested by the red team opposition.
A tunnel connection will cost money, and if the BCR is below 1, probably also require an input of government funding.
This is why having a busway out this way, or possibly a rail via Centenary is important.
More people can be moved in peak on a busway or railway than a road tunnel, and the higher capacity means that new capacity exhausts much later.
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Look at the last 30 or so years at it’s primarily a roads 1st approach from both parties!! Mind boggling that they both argue about being so out of touch
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A BCR well above 1 would still require government funding even if it was privately built and run as the benefit can not possibly be captured in tolls. It includes “broader benefits” which include things like increased economic activity. There is no possibility of it being profitable on its own, as no roads are when you account for capital costs.
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This is more of a post Olympics project and I reckon the Gympie Road tunnel will likely be completed prior to this one.
And public transport will be set back even further!! Whilst these projects continue to be prioritised, public transport (and active transport) will continue to falter…despite the press releases saying the city is changing!!
PS a BCR above 1 for this project will be full of incorrect and never proven assumptions/estimates.
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If you are designing a project and its BCA is 0.3 or lower, you either redesign it or you cancel it. What is the point of the BCA score analysis if its always ignored and projects still end up being built, despite its low scores.
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Political partisan priorities will come into play with this option. My suggestion is a busway along the highway is a much better public service option.
My opinion is the wealth in the properties through Indooroopilly and Chapel Hill will never let any option get off the ground.
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An opportunity IF rail capacity was included in any tunnel!!!
Light rail perhaps?
Light Rail through tunnels doesn’t work…much the same co$t as putting heavy rail through, so heavy rail wins…of course, we are talking Brisbane, so hold on tight, anything involving a bus is probable! 
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