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?
Why did we skip M8 and go from M7 straight to M9?.
You know Moreton Bay Faster rail is actually not a bad idea
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.
Because odd numbers go north south and even numbers go east west.
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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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