Logan and Gold Coast Faster Rail Project (LGCFR)

[Cygnus]

@nathandavid88

agree with this concept except for using Murray Road to get it up to Mandew Street. Murrays Road is narrow, winding, very flood prone and it runs through a highly ecologically sensitive area (home to the endangered Gossia gonoclada - Logan’s own Wollumi Pine).

Instead, I’d send up up Sewell Road - it’s much more straight, it’s wider (and could be widened further to include a local bus stop), it would be less flood prone I would imagine (it goes up and down a hill) and would allow reasonable access to either the Mandew Street or Grandis Street for a bit more flexibility.

What I was meaning was building an entirely separate elevated road up to the Murrays/Mandew roundabout. Elevation is absolutely needed to get across the river, motorway and flood plains. In a perfect world I wouldn’t use Murrays or Sewell, as a residential street is probably not the best place for high bus volumes. But I’m not sure where the protected trees are, so I’m unsure what’s achievable.

@nathandavid88

Just on this topic, I will point out that a 551 and 561 routes do also provide additional peak capacity for Springwood and Rochedale Stations, so while I think there could be benefits in having these routes servicing Kingston Station, I wouldn’t necessarily terminate them there (at least not until M1 can be expanded to Springwood).

Terminating at Kingston (or Loganlea) would require LGCFR to be completed and better bus infrastructure to the station. It’s not something that can happen overnight, but can be an aspirational goal.

I’d argue the existence of those routes in their present form is a failure of planning, and the extra peak capacity at Springwood and Rochedale could be provided by making the 569 stop there.