The window has closed on many Brisbane 2032 transport options,so what will it be like getting around our city during the Games?
The Miles government has been urged to abandon the Centenary Motorway tunnel bypass in favour of a new high-frequency rail line to link the western suburbs with the airport.
The state and federal Labor governments have defended their staged approach to delivering the Sunshine Coast rail line,amid LNP claims it would turn Caloundra into a “car park”.
The extra funding,to be announced in Tuesday’s budget,will take the federal contribution to $2.75 billion – just a fraction of the $12 billion to complete the planned line.
There are no plans for new trains on a major rail line even after the number of passenger trips doubled in the past decade and jumped 39 per cent in the past 12 months.
The Roma Street Cross River Rail site is looking more like a functioning train station than a construction site.
The Queensland government shut down any hopes it would be completed in time for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.
Queensland Rail received more than 800 complaints last year about etiquette on trains,including one passenger dropping a banana peel on a seat and others playing music,vaping or throwing cookie dough.
“I hope it lifts people’s day,” says one of 13 celebrated Indigenous artists whose work will brighten travel around Brisbane.
The level crossing where a woman was killed when her car was hit by a train was a serious safety risk but had not been inspected for 19 years.
“Faster Rail” conjures images of new-age trains hurtling to and from the Gold Coast in a blur. The reality is that most of the time,cars will be going quicker on the M1.