Surely BTQ supports full platform raising at all stations? Expecting someone to know which part of the platform is raised at each particular station is outrageous.
The trains are around 150 m long. This distance might be OK for an able bodied person not carrying anything. But for passengers with prams, luggage, young children, bikes, scooters, those with disabilities, injuries etc etc it’s not trivial.
Passengers should not be required to move up or down the station to find a safe location to access the train.
This is a very retrograde step in the ongoing push for accessibility for all. We were given commitments a number of years ago that all stations would have full height full length platforms when upgraded. Not so with Shorncliffe it seems.
not to mention that raising just part of the platform is not “being responsible with taxpayer money”. What it is is a dumb cost cut measure that will make almost everyone unhappy and will require mitigation (and cost) in the future anyway.
What’s the point of building “Queensland’s most accessible trains” that will deliver less seating capacity just for them to keep serving a good chunk of stations that won’t have fully raised platforms?
That is a jaw droppingly ridiculous response from QR. There is a clear implication on their part that full length platform raising is not financially responsible - something which should be at the very bottom of a long list of considerations.
It’s ironic they run constant station safety campaigns on one hand, and then follow it up with this.
Taringa Station is located between Toowong and Indooroopilly. But it still doesn’t have lifts. Given that it’s in an area good for transit oriented development and has already seen densification around it, I think it’s time we have it an Upgrade.
Upgrading Taringa station has been pushed for a while now. Many years in fact.
Difficult to do much with the present station, constrained corridor, narrow platforms, inaccessible. An idea some of us had a while back was to relocate a new station a few hundred metres towards the city so that it is above Beatrice St. This would allow better platforms, full DDA compliance with lifts and be much more accessible to all. Corridor not as constrained.
In an ideal world it would only need to be a single island platform between the running pairs, but that would require up-up-down-down running (something which is effectively a non-starter as I understand it due to various infrastructure limitations). That being the case I think it would have to be 4 platforms, so moving the station slightly is probably the best outcome. Even if the current station could be upgraded the access up the hill from the station is hideously steep.
Ok if there is one station that badly needs an upgrade the most, it’s Albion. What happened to the plans they had for Nearly the last 10 years!?. Also you can do Wooloowin too whilst your at it.
While Wooloowin does need a refurb, Albion is far more important, given that it will be a major interchange between CRR and surface lines (except Cleveland-Ferny Grove) once CRR opens.
I understand why it’s being rebuilt with side platforms and a central island, but I really wish they would do it with two islands so that there’s flexibility in the future for cross platform interchange.
Will it really be a major interchange though? I can’t imagine which journeys would be better served by changing at Albion rather than Eagle Junction or Roma Street.
EDIT: In fact, why would you even have the sector 1 trains stop at Albion?
Well they are promoting Albion as the key inner northern rail interchange " … new Albion station will be a key rail-to-rail interchange station for the inner northern rail network providing accessible, safe and convenient passenger transfers. … ", probably because a decent upgrade can occur at Albion rather than Eagle Junction. It would be easier to interchange at Albion (2 lifts per platform) than Eagle Junction. Be convenient to transfer at Albion for journeys to the City surface stations, and vice versa.
