Really keen to see what this does for the area - if Queen St mall is any indication this will be packed with pedestrians
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Yeah! I did take a glimpse of the partially opened âgreen corridorâ on Albert Street earlier today.
I think the urbanists that are craving for a spacious public realm, activated with mature trees will be disappointed though, as it does feel comparatively tiny to its sister, the big Queen Street Mall 
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It doesnât all have to be big - walkability and placemaking apply at every scale. I think every bit of pedestrianisation in the CBD is terrific. Hopefully there will be more.
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Since when was the CRRDA website blue?
Didnât you know? Everything is turning blue! The Qld Origin team will be wearing LNP blue next year! 
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I caught a train from Roma Street this evening and it seems that more of the station building is being revealed. You can clearly see the new busway platform 1 now as well as other parts of the building from the street.
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Am heading inbound tomorrow, will try to snap some pics at that case
I used to think that way too, but being privy to some recent non-public information, I think you will be disappointedâŚ
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Considering they they are taking forever to start laying the track at MayneâŚ
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Iâve seen the space for the new southbound CRR track in that state for quite a while, even with the vehicles and workers on some occasions, yet that corridor remained unchanged aside from the new wire poles being placed. In case that are genuinely preparing for the track laying, itâs about time.
A lot of the new track at Ekka station has already been rusted, so I wonder how long it will take them to replace the rails?
Unless itâs really bad I thought you could just drive over the rust and the train wheels will grind it back to clean. Certainly seems to be the case considering how many railways store tracks off to the side of the main line for months at a time
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If you look closely in the 3rd image, they have piles of ballast and kilometres of track laying in the corridor ready for laying. This is reasonably new.
It looks like theyâre in a race against time to get the section closest to Bowen Hills graded in time
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The whole reason itâs been delayed to then is because they havenât even started actually building the QTMP trains yet. That combined with hiring more train drivers is probably part of the reason why itâs been delayed (aside from political reasons). Though it does mean a delay which is disappointing, hopefully it buys them time so we donât repeat the mistakes that plagued the commissioning of the Redcliffe Line.
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Donât we have the QR CEO saying on the record (in Parliament IIRC) that QR had enough trains to operate CRR services initially without the QTMP trains?
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They probably revised it. Also yes we would have enough to run CRR but what would that mean for the other lines.
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The question wasnât regarding the CRR in isolation, but operating the entire network including CRR.
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One thing Iâm curious about. Near the end of last year we ran the first ever train through the northern portal and into Roma Street Station but we are still yet to run a train a full way through the tunnel and havenât run one in since.
Could this mean their are some problems or that much of the tunnel is still not ready for testing yet.
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Some of the recent closures on the shorncliffe line have been accompanied by wording to the effect that they are testing ECTS on the Shorncliffe line and this needs to be completed before they can begin testing trains on CRR.
I think thatâs an excuse but it may be the process that CRR is taking.