Aimed at improving access from the Gateway and the Northside to Brisbane Airport. Would also look beautiful for those on the planes to view as they come in to land.
Currently a lot of traffic has to merge then go back out again and this interchange solves that by segregating most traffic from each other.only thing that needs resuming is some bushland and a golf course
What’s the issue with the current interchange? The gateway has access to the airport precinct through the interchange at Moreton Drive.
You’d no doubt be able to buy out the airtrain contract with the same funds. This would enable improvements for bus connectivity to the airport precinct from South East Brisbane, Redlands Bay and North Brisbane which would be far better value.
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That’s a lot of pavement over a very large area.
I also don’t see what the issue with the current M1 interchange is.
It’s about segregation of traffic. Right now traffic has a few conflict points. And some really tight curves if you’re heading north from the airport. Additionally this interchange also improves access to the airport car park.
We should be moving away from carparks at the airport, not encouraging more of them.
Conflict points are all over the place, but that doesn’t necessarily justify spending billions to eliminate them. Is there a specific reason why these particular conflict points are problematic?
I’ve driven to the airport quite often to drop off and pick up family (due to the lack of good PT) and the traffic has always been fine. I’m sure during particularly busy days it can get a bit dicey, but that’s the exception, not the norm.
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Yeah well this is also about making it easy for drop off and pick up.
I get what you’re saying, but I think there is already such an abundance of roading access to the airport as it is that I’d much rather advocate for an improvement of the Airtrain service, placing it into public hands with a consistent 15 minute frequency, and then the introduction of a couple of cross town bus connections to the north and south (maybe Chermside and Upper Mount Gravatt), although I don’t support the introduction of bus/’metro’ services from the airport to the CBD as there is no need to duplicate yet another rail service.
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The day AirTrain becomes the Airport Line and 50c is the day less traffic will be on the Airport leading roads IMO
That’s disgusting.
Yeah, no…just, no. If built, it’d be an ugly thing to see from above and below and the population would be joyous the day it’d get knocked down for something else.
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Well yeah we would also do all that
The tourists will be amazed at all the infrastructure as they come into to land. We will look very developed.
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Even if the train was free it wouldn’t work for me if I had to go to the airport. Because I come from the opposite direction of it. Not everyone lives in or wants to go to the city, you know.
I find that most of the congestion that occurs in the airport is caused not by the interchanges to the M1/M7, but rather the bottleneck at the terminals, with people arriving/departing, and I don’t see this plan helping address this congestion - the roads seem to be unchanged at the terminals (you’ve drawn over existing roads at the international terminal, so no change there, and the domestic terminal isn’t shown). If anything, I think it might provide a slightly shorter time in terms of shortening the distance, but the distance shortened is skipping fast roads, so the time save there is minimal I would think.
Also, the interchange seems too big (in terms of the loops: you can see this by comparing the proposal to M1-Moreton Dr interchange)
Also, I’d be pretty concerned by the impact this mega interchange would have on the wetlands occupying the area. I’m no expert on ecosystems, but from what I remember, wetlands help us with flood mitigation, which may get worse if the ecosystem deteriorates, and this is only one of a few ecosystem services they provide.
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Is this some kind of joke?
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Nah mate, I say build it
Over-engineered monstrosity with little benefit.
Just like that proposal at the Sunshine Coast, that won’t include a rail corridor.
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I thought we were building on our MR from a few months ago to make Skygate an improved Public Transport interchange to help service the airport precinct.
We should be focussing on that before advocating any road improvements in the area, except for a ramp off Southern Cross Drive for the GCL to access Skygate.
Is the road access to BNE really such a big issue? When I’ve had to drive in to pick people up I’ve never had an issue from any direction, even when a truck caught fire on the gateway.
I generally catch PT when I’m flying out of Brisbane (coming from the SC) and the transfer at Eagle Junction is…. fine. No cross platform transfer so luggage unfortunately has to be dragged up the ramp to the pedestrian bridge, and the station itself isn’t the nicest but it’s… fine.
The biggest drawback is the fact the airtrain stops after 10pm and frequency could be improved - but it still beats the extortionate cost of parking which is often higher than my airfare!
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