Anyone know what the incident at Cultural Center was tonight?
Saw a backup of about two buses behind a metro with its lights flashing and what appeared to be a police car on the bridge and at the busway station. Apologies for the horrendous photo quality
Queensland Rail website seems to have updated with a few more third-party led closures from Boggo Road to Banoon-Cleveland in the coming months⌠why does it have to be all the way to Cleveland? What could they possibly be doing for a third party all the way to there. sigh
Wasnât it usually Cannon Hill CRR closed that line to?
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Yet the Translink notice for this closure says:
What works are happening?
- General track maintenance
I wonder if both CRR works and QR maintenance might be happening in different parts of the closure?
Interesting. I wonder what they could be as Cleveland already had a closure between Manly-Cleveland over the summer to restore the bridge and maintennace out this way.
What could possibly be closing it to Cleveland this time? Also interesting to see if thatâs the same reason for the whole line closures during May (beginning to understand what it means to be a Gold Coast line user)
Thereâs also a couple similar for the Gold Coast line listing closures for âthird-party led workâ between Boggo Road and Varsity LakesâŚ
They could legitimately be for CRR works, as the new Gold Coast line stations are part of the CRR project. I guess they thought it not worth the bother to just run trains between Beenleigh and Banoon.
Theyâre getting bolder with their closures. Four-day inner city WEEKDAY track closure.
- Start: First service Tuesday 7 April
- End: Last service Friday 10 April
- Affected lines:
- Airport, Beenleigh, Caboolture, Doomben, Gold Coast, Redcliffe Peninsula, Shorncliffe and Sunshine Coast lines will be impacted by track closures
- All lines will have timetable changes
- Next normal service: These lines will continue to be impacted by the April extended track closures.
Please consider your transport options, allow extra travel time and plan ahead closer to the date.
Also, interesting that they can run trains via Tennyson (as seen during the late-night closure) so they choose not to for weekend ones:
Track closure in brief
- Dates:
- Monday 16 March
- Tuesday 17 March
- Start: 9:30pm each night
- End: Last service each night
- Affected lines: Beenleigh, Cleveland and Gold Coast
- Next normal service: First train the next morning
View map of closure.Travel information
Beenleigh and Gold Coast line trains
Trains will run express via the Tennyson loop between Roma Street and:
- Rocklea on the Beenleigh line
- Altandi on the Gold Coast line.
For some reason the metro buses arenât using the Adelaide Street tunnel this arvo. Was on the M2 and it went via the QSBS tunnel RBH bound instead.
This morning was also chaos with long waits for a Metro bus from RBWH. I ended up getting any bus to Roma Street and changing there.
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I believe it depends on whether the posession is for Clapham Yardâs construction. It seems like thereâs quite a bit of track reconfiguration and signalling works which needs to occur for the new yard unfortunately.
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Quite a mess on the Beenleigh & Gold Coast lines this afternoon, due to a signalling issue. It seems that southbound Beenleigh trains are terminating at Kuraby, and Gold Coast trains are stopping all stations between Kuraby and Varsity Lakes.
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âWhile there is never a good time for track closures, conducting this work over the school holiday period reduces the impact as less customers travel on the network at this time.
Once again the work-focussed mindset of QR/TL/CRRDA is shownâŚ
Not understanding why thatâs a problem.
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Understanding that travel patterns have changed a lot since the pandemic, maybe?
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The network is still at itâs busiest on weekdays, in peak, during the school term
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Two day Sunshine Coast line closure due to B2N Duplication works starts tomorrow, bizarrely there was zero work happening this weekend but a full day closure on Monday and Tuesday. Budget management maybe?
In any case, disappointed to once again see that the buses are:
a) Being arranged to only match the service frequency (and in some cases, slighty less than the service frequency) of the trains as opposed to just being every 10 minutes during peak.
b) Scheduled in a way that each full train is being âreplacedâ by only two buses (one express that skips all the intermediate stops between Caboolture and Nambour and one all stopper).
Basic maths would suggest that you canât fit 200+ people onto two urban buses - obviously many people, ourselves included, will work from home and reduce the passenger load, but we saw pretty significant overcrowding on some services last time because of this setup, not helped by the fact that some buses didnât show up, leaving people with a 20+ minute wait on some occasions before having to sardine into the next bus.
I left pretty harsh feedback both directly to Translink via the normal channels and also via a feedback QR code at the station for the track closure (in which I recommended Translink actually have staff on the ground to assist next time) - will be interested to see if any of this was taken on board.
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Not sure why, but Airport, Sandgate and Doomben trains are travelling via the mains through the CBD/Valley this morning. Ferny Grove trains still on subs. Cleveland/Gold Coast trains seem to be operating normally.
Edit: not sure if itâs related.
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Journey Planner still showing trains operating on the Gold Coast & Beenleigh lines for 13th April. Translink needs to get their information correct!
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Not to the point where the network is busier on weekends and public holidays.
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Do we actually have the data recently for that actually?
The above is from 2025.. and the Tour de Brisbane is yet again closing every busway for a period of hours: Inner Northern Busway, South East Busway and Eastern Busway (Buranda to UQ).
This is a totally unacceptable decision by Council, and presumably the State government who are in charge of the busways.
The event is a very worthy one, but itâs really not OK to shut down public transport infrastructure like this, given the Beenleigh and Gold Coast lines will be totally closed south of Boggo Rd on the exact same day, Sun 12 April 2026.
Does anyone have time to throw together a draft letter the Lord Mayor, the Transport Minister and the event organisers calling for the route to be changed and a committment to no more public transport closures from next year?
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Update on this, from what Iâve seen today, at least in the morning and evening, each peak direction rail replacement service was made up of two buses instead of one, so four buses in total replacing each train. Iâm pleasantly surprised - and happy that I was wrong!
It was also good to see Kangaroo Bus Lines running contracted services with some of their higher capacity units, there were a few TMR volgrens getting around but KBL were also heavily running their stretched higher capacity buses and full coaches during peak instead of just normal city buses. Fantastic work.
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