The forestry area to the East of the zoo (owned by HQPlantations) on either side of the new alignment is slated to become a future housing development and as part of that there will be provision for a future Beerwah East station to be built at a later date.
One of the key design features of the new line is also maximum possible track speed to reduce trip times so I imagine at some point the decision was made that the zoo will be adequately served by the redeveloped Beerwah station (and the potential new East station). The shuttle bus ride as it stands now is only about 3 minutes.
It’s to stop Nimbies mate.
The journey from Aroona Station to Beerwah Station could take just under 15 minutes, while a trip from the planned Caloundra Station, just to the south of Aroona, to Roma Street Station in Brisbane could take 1 hour and 23 minutes during the morning rush.
Interesting to see the 83 minute trip time from the business case surface again. I was hoping for slightly better trip time (sub 1h20m) especially with B2N, ETCS2 and Cross River Rail creating a quicker path into the CBD but still not too bad.
It would be nice for the entire rail portion (Birtinya → CBD) to be an even 1h30m but realistically I imagine they might just fall short of that goal.
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Agreed - although would still be a MASSIVE improvement over the current offering, and I could see that running time being at least competitive with cars in peak.
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