At that point just close Edens Landing, there’s little value in it continuing to exist as a station with another, better located one so close.
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I would be open to that as well.
Yea repositon both Beenleigh to north and eden landings to south to make up.for axing of holmview ….
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Beenleigh is already being reposition further inbound, which does make Holmview’s current position a little more redundant that it currently is.
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Do you reckon that they would make Holmview redundant? The money saved by doing so can go into more segregated cycling paths along the line.
Or use the money saved for a beefier Eden’s Landing with a river bridge to Loganholme.
I don’t agree that Holmview should be scrapped. Instead, it should be relocated to near the intersection of Grove Rd & Holmview Rd. This makes it more accessible to the 562 bus. Edens Landing would then become more questionable IMO. It has no reasonable bus access. The only sensible point to cross the river for Loganholme would be at the end of Drews Rd, which is a fair distance from Edens Landing or a relocated Holmview.
Whichever way you go, there wil be compromises. It’s just a pity this wasn’t sorted out back in the '80s when Edens Landing was first built.
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I wouldn’t say Drews Rd is the only sensible point to cross the river for Loganholme. I wonder if a bridge could be built along this path:
Though of course there would be calls from some to make this a regular road rather than bus-only.
I would not recommend this path at all, because it is entirely across land which is mapped as high flood risk. The connection point to Clarks Road is right next to the first spot where that road goes under during heavy rain. It also chews up a fair bit of Alexander Clark Park, taking out the dog off leash areas.
Drews Road is much better in terms of flood risk, only being marked as Low Risk from the Clarks Road Intersection right down to Loffs Road. Only the rear of the riverfront properties are marked as high risk.
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Passed through Loganlea onboard 1V49 and OHLE is now up in almost the entirety of the northbound track, with the southbound being about half installed.
Can we please have some of this incredible speed to rebuild other stations, please?
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I’ve felt for a while that if they really wanted to they could do so many things much faster. Roads also seem to be built at a much faster pace.
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It’s much faster when you build a station that is basically offline for much of its construction.
Not for the first time I wonder if they should be going hard and continuously the way they have been in Perth (Victoria Park - Beckenham) and Auckland (generally). No trains for 18 months but everything done non-stop (stations, signalling, track amplification, LX removals etc) vs death by 1,000 cuts.
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It’s a bus-only road, not a general access road. If it goes under during floods, diversions are available, and any section near a bridge will be raised anyway. Parks are easy to move, houses are not. And how does a bridge at Drews Rd connect to the road network on the southern side of the river? Is it going over the railway line into Rochelle Ct? Is it going to run alongside the railway line until it gets to the station?
We cannot even deal with a lack of trains for a week without experiencing serious overcrowding and delays, because we don’t have the bus drivers available to move all those passengers by bus. I’m unsure the network would cope with a line being out of action for 18 months.
Hook the bridge around onto Houdini Cresent would be my preferred option (you could also connect the bridge straight across to Marquis Street instead of Drews Road, but the roundabout with Dewar Street could prove tricky to navigate a bus around - it’s pretty tight even in a car).
If you look at a satellite view of Holmview, I believe that there was an intention at one stage to connect the power line-straddling Harburg Drive up with the similarly straddling Bingo Street E/W, to at least as far as Grove Road. Given that the southern portion of Houdini Cresent also shares the same general alignment, an extension of this road may have also been envisioned as going over the Grove Road Reserve, connecting to Houdini Cresent, and potentially across the river.
I don’t know if anything like this is still mapped as a future corridor - Holmview has been part of three separate councils since the 1990s - but there may be benefits to extending Bingo Street up to Grove Road and to down to Logan River Road, and realign the end of Harburg Drive to meet it. Punching Grove Road through the reserve to Castile Cresent would also go a long way to improving Edens Landing’s stupid road network.