It cuts out four sets of traffic lights along Old Cleveland Road.
Yesterday Premier Anna Bligh announced a community open day would be held on Saturday before the new bus services began on Monday.
These new bus services include:
- five new routes through Brisbane’s eastern suburbs,particularly those suburbs along Old Cleveland Road such as Camp Hill,Carina,Carindale,Belmont,Chandler and Capalaba West;
- 2238 buses a week stopping at the new Stones Corner busway station and 1752 buses stopping at Langlands Park Busway Station;
- two new high frequency bus routes - route 222 (Carindale to Roma St) and 590 (Garden City to Number One Airport Drive).
Overall there are 31 new buses,12 new bus stops and five new bus routes.