Gympie Rd inner lanes have been occupied from Kedron (around where the bus lanes ends) to Chermside. I’m really hopeful that they are extending the bus lanes all the way to Chermside.
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So, originally the lanes would go until Hamilton road but Labor butchered it and decided to wait for the Gympie road bypass tunnel studies to finish. Also, that bus lane project got delayed for several reasons, and a main one was new stormwater infrastructure that had to be done.
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Maybe after 2032, we can get a bus lane on the centenary bridge 
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Wow! I’ve never heard of traffic being unjammed before the road opens! /sarcasm
It’s only a 4km stretch of road at this point, I really don’t see it doing anything hugely beneficial until the rest of the road to Nerang is completed.
While I agree with the value of the road (and will likely use it myself when it makes it up past Eagleby), I think it has been hugely over engineered. It didn’t need to be a highway-grade road - something more akin to Logan Road or Mains Road I feel would have sufficed.
I guess the question to be asked is would there be any value running new bus routes along it (in full or in part) when complete?
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Oh, as a fun fact, the Courier Mail is spruiking the below article showing “the first Gold Coast resident driving on the Coomera Connector.”
Judging by the look of the road and the positioning of buildings, old mate is actually driving the wrong way up the Shipper Road offramp, and doesn’t get onto the Connector proper.
I’d be leaning towards “no” - it might arguably make for a quicker trip from say Coomera Waters to Helensvale but it’d be of marginal utility compared to running more local feeder services into Coomera station and getting people onto trains.
Agree this is overengineered, it needed to be something in the vein of Bermuda Street / Robina Parkway. That also would have allowed for a proper connection to Oxley Drive.
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Day one before the Coomera Connector gets clogged.
How many days would it take for the Coomera Connector and Pacific Motorway to clog up after the opening of the new motorway?