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Gold CityGlider
Gold CityGlider – proposed new service
Council has proposed a new service connecting Portside, Hamilton to Woolloongabba and major sporting, entertainment, shopping and dining precincts.
The Gold CityGlider service will travel:
- from the Portside precinct of Hamilton to Woolloongabba Busway Station, servicing the King Street precinct at Fortitude Valley and the Mary Street end of the CBD
- every 10 minutes during peak times and 15 minutes off-peak
- 18 hours a day from Sunday to Thursday and 24 hours a day on Friday and Saturday
- throughout Friday and Saturday nights at 30 minute intervals after midnight
- along the recently upgraded Kingsford Smith Drive at Hamilton.
Attractions along the route include:
- Portside precinct
- RNA showgrounds
- King Street, Bowen Hills shopping and dining precinct
- Fortitude Valley shopping and dining precinct
- Albert Street / Mary Street / Eagle Street retail and dining precincts in the CBD (including 1 William Street, Queens Wharf Brisbane, Parliament House, QUT Gardens Point and the future Cross River Rail station at Albert Street)
- The Gabba Stadium
- Woolloongabba dining precinct, including the iconic Moreton Rubber Works building on Logan Road.
The proposed Gold CityGlider bus service will provide a high-quality service to several growing inner Brisbane communities and commercial, retail and recreational precincts, getting you to your favourite destinations sooner.
Download the proposed bus service map:
The new bus service has been submitted as a business case to Translink and is subject to a joint funding agreement.
Notes
Following on from discussion in the Brisbane Airtrain thread, it is worth asking what the status of the Gold CityGlider is?
The Gold CityGlider was first mentioned about 2 years ago:
BrisbaneTimes article, June 2023
It featured in election material (Blue Team) a year later:
THE RIGHT PLAN FOR QUEENSLAND’S FUTURE
The LNP has committed to delivering the long-awaited Gold CityGlider service, to improve public transport in the McConnel electorate if elected this month.
This $6 million investment will co-fund the service with Brisbane City Council, providing fast and frequent bus services along Kingsford Smith Drive. The Gold CityGlider will connect Portside in Hamilton to Woolloongabba, linking key precincts including Fortitude Valley, King Street, and the CBD.
And there has not really been much mentioned about it since.
The route map from 2022 shows it terminating at Portside Hamilton, however there might be a good case for it to continue through to DFO Brisbane.
Might be worth following up?
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Stumbled on this today, from the Village Voice - a community magazine (for the inner north, I believe) dated 21 Nov 2025 Tim Nicholls reflects: Gold CityGlider, Northshore on track
Mr Nicholls confirmed the promised Gold CityGlider bus route from Hamilton Northshore to Woolloongabba is still on track.
He said the government has made funding available to the Brisbane City Council, and the council and Department of Transport and Main Roads are now planning implementation, with a timeline yet to be announced.
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I’m a bit unfairly negative about the city glider because I feel it adds fairly little to the south and west of Bowen hills.
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Route 300 is most popular non BUZ? Should that be upgraded…c’mon BCC
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Of the 3xx routes, I suspect that the pre-BNBN 375 would beat the 300, but then again that was a two-for-one deal.
370’s not that far behind, 300 slightly ahead of the 385, and the only other one in the conversation is the 390.
Notice how all these are weekday frequent or close to it.
(This is all just looking at March last year, so there are error bars.)
We talk about the 350 a lot because its area doesn’t have frequency, but it’s only #19 with one-third the 300’s patronage. It would be a good test for the field-of-dreams BUZ thesis.
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What is happening with the Gold CityGlider? It seems unusually delayed.
The original BCC mapping was from 2022, about 3 years ago
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Tim Nicholls MP has claimed in the past few months that everything is ‘on track.’
Let’s just say that building basic infrastructure has been blown out of proportions. Take the following as an exemplar for instance:
• $372,929: footpath/pedestrian refuge,
Pallara
• $63,500: Calamvale ward bus shelter
• $44,000: Tarragindi park tap
• $14,000: two bench seats, Milton
• $200,000: Replacement shade sails (requiring playground upgrade), Watheroo Place Park, Parkinson
• $20,500: two park benches, Pallara
• $200,000: footpath at Stretton State College
• $15,000: three park seats, Stanworth Road Park, Boondall
• $27,832: several banner poles, Deagon
Sportsground
• $109,050: 37m section of footpath at Red
Hill Bowls Club
• $450,000: dirt BMX track, Salisbury
Recreation Reserve
• $16,000: two park seats, Cracknell’s Gully Park, Tarragindi
• $83,280: shelter/seats, Hyde Road Park dog offleash, Yeronga
(Councillor Emily Kim, 2025).
If it costs $63k for a singular bus shelter in Calamvale, no wonder the 62 Northshore Hamilton glider is taking so damn long!
At this rate, we’ll need the federal government involved in the launch of the golden glider! 
But aside from that, if we want the golden cityglider to truly succeed, it needs a bus lane along the Captain Cook Bridge.
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They Qld Government set aside funds for it in the budget last June.
Maybe they are thinking about extending it to Skygate, hence the delay.
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