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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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