Labor has released a Transport Issues Paper titled Slow lane: A State of Congestion. Leave your thoughts and analysis in the replies below.
260121 - TRANSPORT ISSUES PAPER FINAl.pdf (123.7 MB)
As with any paper released by a political party, it’s worth examining the underlying data and assumptions carefully, and independently verifying claims where possible.
Overall it does seem to provide a good summary – albeit with loaded language – on the state of announced projects, however, other than the implied reversal of project cuts, there is no actual discussions on what should be done instead.
BTQ should just ask them if they want to cancel Gympie Road Tunnel project - Yes or No, and that will tell you the answer 
I read the paper.
It is a politically loaded “grievance piece” and data/contact harvesting excercise.
Remember, political parties have a special exemption in the Privacy Act when using your information. They can legally spam you.
They WANT Gympie Road tunnel… BCR 0.2 (its probably gotten even worse now).
“$335 was budgeted towards planning, business case development and pre-construction investigations”.
Yes, and the project was estimated to cost $12b (likely gone up by now, and given the rule of thumb to 2x the cost of any initial QLD Government major transport cost estimate, the actual likely cost is more like $24b…)
0.335 / 12 billion = ~ 2.8 percent of the project cost.
Remember how QIC and the private sector were going to fund the tunnel and it wasn’t going to cost anything? Obviously they dropped that idea when they saw BCR = 0.2 and there was no way to make a profit from the project.
Is there any substantial reason that 24x7 bus lanes couldn’t be implemented on Gympie Rd within 6 months? This seems like a reasonable interim solution, along with artics on 333 and 330.
I guess the other thing is whether there’s depot space at Virginia for artics. Does TfB need to search for a new depot location?
