Just wonderful. 
Is it bad that Iām immediately suspicious about this after QRās shadiness last week?
I know itās so unlikely.. but the initial attempt at blaming the RTBU for cleveland and ipswich line closures didnāt work how they expected it to and now this happensā¦
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About track closures. Why donāt we do it all at night. If the Japanese can do this, then there is no excuse why we canāt either.
Translink has now given us a digital calendar of extended closures in advance
It doesnāt make sense though:
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queensland railās version:
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Saw an inbound R620 this morning as I was crossing Gotha St just before 6 am, and it was packed to the rafters.
Itās becoming very apparent that thereās not adequate railbuses for demand.
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In addition to the extra 150 theyāve been running for closures for a while I found out they are also running extra 310 during peak at the moment.
AM peak - additional short trips:
Ex-Sandgate 06:26, 06:51, 07:20, 07:40, 08:41
Ex-SandgateHigh 07:30, 07:50
Most timed as sweepers.
PM peak - additional full trips:
15:02 (+2), 16:12 (+2), 16:14 (+4), 16:47 (+2), 17:22 (+2), 18:02 (-3)
Just curious why any union associated with QR can effectively stop all trains, but in healthcare absolutely nothing is even allowed to even look like it effects a patient. Even non urgent stuff. Best healthcare workers can do is throw up a frw signs, have small mudday walk outs which have to be made up anyway.
Thereās a bit of a difference between disrupting public transport and taking action that may impact the immediate health and wellbeing of a patient, for which they have a duty of care.
That said, health practitioners are still able to undertake industrial action in ways that do not impact patients directly. Last year, 45,000 nurses and midwives undertook action by refusing to do tasks not related to clinical care at public hospitals and healthcare facilities around the state. And I recall some years ago that doctors refused to perform elective and non-urgent surgeries, which pushed back waiting lists and, IIRC, saw the Government actually fork out to get patients seen by private hospitals.
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I think itās also worth noting that the union didnāt choose to stop all trains, that was a lockout imposed by QR after the union stated they would stop freight trains only
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It wasnāt even all freight trains, it was coal and mineral trains. General freight i.e. container trains wouldāve still been permitted.
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Of interest:
Mr Hill is an Executive General Manager of SEQ. Mr Hill gave evidence that on the Citytrain network the number of trips per day in the week of 23 March 2026 were: (a) 1,117,906 per day on weekdays (increase of 2.6% from prior week); and (b) 137,273 per day on weekends (increase of 7.9% from prior week).
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The south will only get one month of relatively stress-free travel before another set of closures. Wonderful. Absolutely amazing.
Can we stop accepting that this is okay for once? Itās a disrespect to pretty much everyone in SEQ.
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As a minor plus, all lines seem to be operation in January next year with no third party closures or QR general closures listed.
Fingers crossed it stays that way, Iāve been eyeing off a Gold Coast trip for a bit but these closures make it not worth it.
I wouldnāt be all that sure about that, as CRR related closures are uploaded to the QR calendar quite late into the system in my experience.
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^^The full interview here from today
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Iām about 99.99% sure it wonāt remain that way.
When ipswich/springfield line be one again to connect from past Northgate?
Thursday 16 April.
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Just came across this on Threads (of all places lol).
I wonder if always part of the plan or are they responding to crowding with additional replacement services?
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This isnāt new. Iāve met quite a few interstate drivers during prior long (i.e. not just a weekend) shutdowns.
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