North West Transport Corridor (Trouts Road Corridor)

Queensland Greater Brisbane
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Definitely think heavy rail is the way to go on the NWTC. The ultimate idea for me would be a branch off CRR at Roma St and a tunnel out to Everton Park with stations at Kelvin Grove, Newmarket Shops and Alderley. It would use the corridor and eventually join the existing Caboolture line again. I’m not 100% sure what the best option would be. One would be to have it join at a new Fitzgibbon station located around Linkfield Road. The downside to this would be that it would take slots from the CRR core heading north. These would ultimately have to be replaced by services through the existing core.

I think you could also include options like 4 tracks in some sections north of Everton Park to allow express services for further north. Alternatively, you could just have the line terminate at Roma St on a pair of new platform. I think the buses could do so much more with a train line to feed into. A train from Roma St to Everton Park could do the journey in around 10 mins or so. This is far quicker than what any bus could achieve. I’m a firm believer that generally speaking, buses should feed into or connect with trains in the further out suburbs (old zone 4 and 5 - outer current zone 2).

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Intersect caboo line at bald hills & align with m1 for a bit to griffin, northlakes, dbay onto bribie? That route would need green bridges for community improvement for recreation users linking burps east, beachmere & dbay (?). Just thinking different alignment on north side

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My hot take with NWTC is that we shouldn’t have both it and Exhibition into CRR, since that breaks sectorisation or wastes capacity. So if we want to have NWTC into CRR, we need to come up with a different solution for Exhibition station.

I suppose my proposed metro route has subway along the Gympie Rd corridor to Chermside, and that would go via Exhibition, so that works in conjunction with a full-NWTC diversion of CRR.

If you want to diverge from the existing line north of Strathpine you’re probably better off going west rather than east - Narangba extends a long way west and it’s building out further and further, there’s the ultimately 70,000 new residents going in at Caboolture West etc…

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