For me The concern is how the modern underground Boggo Road station, integrates with the old, poorly designed part of the station. For what will become an even busier interchange, it is an embarrassing prospect.
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After cross river rail, Logan Gold Coast fast rail upgrade and the wave, we should build MREX
IMHO after CRR, LGCFR and Wave - I think we should push to have the Lindum-Cleveland section done up IMO alongside a business case for an extension to Victoria Point - potentially dividing it similar to Beenleigh/GC and have a CBD-Manly all stops and CBD-Victoria Point exp. Boggo Road to Manly stopping only at Cannon Hill or Morningside
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It will NEVER go to vic point in 100 years. Iâd be over the moon if they just duplicated the line to Cleveland and went to 6-8 TPH in peak from Cleveland.
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After CRR and LGCFR, they really need to look at the foundation works along the inner Beenleigh Line needed to further improve Gold Coast and Beenleigh services, and make the Beaudesert Line a reality.
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Whilst nice, I think CRR and LGCFR will put sector one in a good place in the short to medium term. Iâd rather or alongside a major project see a spree of smaller upgrades elsewhere in the network, e.g fourth track electrification between Corinda and Darra, reconfiguration of Darra flyover, double-tracking airport and Doomben lines, adding a second platform to Shorncliffe, etc.
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I think youâre being hopeful with that one, or it would be getting done right now.
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Blows my mind that something so cheap and simple isnât happening with the upgrade. The space is there. It doesnât need to be anything fancy.
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CRRDA should pay at least part of BCCâs repair costs for Troughton Rd when this is done (if not some intermediate repairs, as well). Itâs getting quite rough, no doubt due to all the extra buses during track closures.
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Except the construction project most of the closures are for was planned well before 50 cent fares were announced.
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Tell that to your average person out there.
Travel patterns have changed quite a fair bit since the pandemic years, with a lot more people doing discretionary travel in off-peak and weekends. Hell, translink themselves is trying to push people to travel on weekends and whatnot.
But even though weâre in 2026 QR, translink and TMR keep on pushing weekend closures even though more and more people want to travel outside of commuting times.
You said that theyâre planned over a year in advance? Well thatâs 2025 and this new normal has been a thing for a while now, with the fare reduction also being a year old now.
Give me a damn break.
I think that once CRR opens, I think people will become more hostile towards long closures, especially with CRR touted to have less closures given everything will be divided into three sectors.
Also arenât these things planned up to 5 years in advance? Correct me if Iâm wrong on that.
This yearâs works could well have been scheduled in 2020/21, which was the height of the pandemic
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The unfortunate reality is thereâs more pain to come, with the LGCFR project. Iâm looking forward to when the entire thing is done, and we can go back to half a dozen weekend closures each year.
At the very least, closures that affect every line should be pretty much a thing of the past, surely.
Probably, although works that require possession of Eagle Junction will affect most of the network (Ferny Grove-Cleveland excepted). The effect would be far less if we had NWTC operational.
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Thatâs my point really - there will no longer be any single station or section of track that is required for every line to operate.
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Would Roma Street closures in future simply shut the SC/GC & KR/B lines or would it simply close between Roma St-Woolloongabba Stations and have those lines operate through the existing Cleveland Line sector as per now?
Not an expert so someone may know better, but my understanding is that the surface tracks and the underground tracks are operationally completely separate, so a âRoma Street closureâ doesnât really make sense - it depends exactly which tracks youâre closing. If the station building closes then trains could presumably still run without stopping there.
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I assume youâre asking if CRR services can be redirected to the subs during closures? I believe it will be possible; how practical it will be is a different matter. There will be a lot of blocking for flat crosses.
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In the sense of if the Sunshine Coast/GC Lines as well as Kippa-Ring/Beenleigh Lines has closures between Roma Street-Woolloongabba, will it be the whole line or will it be redirected via current Cleveland Line setup