I know there used to be a thread about this, but I'm damned if I can find it, even search doesn't work. There were lots of progress photos in the old thread, if a mod can find it, please merge this with the old version.

Taken today

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Translink - Boggo Road Busway (http://www.translink.com.au/qt/translin.nsf/index/busway_boggoroad)

Construction on this $217 million Queensland Government project commenced in May 2006. It is scheduled to be completed from Ipswich Road through to the Green Bridge by mid 2009.

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great photos, i was wandering how it was going, i havent had a good look around brissie yet since ive being back

the construction over Ipswich Road is pretty hectic looking though

^^ That it is. I go through there a fair bit and it's extremely messy. Will be great when they finally tidy it all up.

I too have been going through there a fair bit and I could not see where the distance they talk about was coming from. I thought it was going to just go from the Green Bridge through a bus station at pa hosptal and on to Buranda.

MyFavco's map sorted me out. It turns around to Park Road and comes back again.

Nice work.

i started a thread ages ago in transport section... its lost way back in the pages tho... heres my original post -

Translink -Busways Website (http://www.translink.com.au/qt/translin.nsf/index/busway_main)

Current and Proposed Network

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/danubiis/Brisbane%20Busways/buswaynetwork.jpg

Inner Northern Busway

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Northern Busway

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Bogga Road Busway

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/danubiis/Brisbane%20Busways/BoggaRoadBusway1.jpg

Eastern Busway

Buranda - Coorparoo Junction

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Coorparoo Junction - Carina Heights

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Carina Heights - Carindale

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Carindale - Chandler West

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Chandler West - Chandler East

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Chandler East - Capalaba West
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link - http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=460315

kjbrissy also started one on the eastern busway in transport aswell ->
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=444111

One worker was killed and two injured when a concrete beam fell onto a cherry picker on the Boggo Road Busway site
Brisbane Times (http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/crushed-busway-worker-dies/2008/12/01/1227979905460.html)

Yep, very nasty situation. guy was pretty young.

No busway to the west.

No busway to the west.

i have a feeling that the busway to the university was never intended to terminate there... just getting their foot in the door for further down the track i think,... see what happens over the next decade perhaps?

Yep, they are going to plan the extension west by Stealth. The Uni is dead against it at the moment.

After it is in and everyone from Capalaba, Carindale and Cooparoo rave about how good it is someone will come up with a great idea of taking it through the Uni and popping out at Indooroopilly.

The Nimbys are on to it, so it has only been talk about it quitely. It has had some coverage in the press.

i think its a bit greedy for the Uni to say they dont want the busway to extend through there land, i mean yes it has a few negatives and they dont want the serenity of the area ruined by busses speeding past, but that can be overcome by cut and cover tunnels and clever design.

Yep, they are going to plan the extension west by Stealth. The Uni is dead against it at the moment.

More than against it, there are legally binding contracts which preclude it. I spoke to my local councillor about the bridge shortly after the agreements were signed, and her impression is that while there was a chance at the time that through-running services could have been forced on the university, that option had disappeared - all parties knew what they were getting into.

There is a very good reason that the UQ Lakes bus station has no external road connections to the local UQ road network. Personally I think it would be tough to go under the uni with a tunnel, not that much space before your hitting buildings plus the lakes. Going around the southern side runs you into colleges and the northern side around is the long way to get to indro and presumably undesirable. To be honest I don't see it happening either way. UQ is a NIMU, Not In My Uni.

There is a very good reason that the UQ Lakes bus station has no external road connections to the local UQ road network. Personally I think it would be tough to go under the uni with a tunnel, not that much space before your hitting buildings plus the lakes. Going around the southern side runs you into colleges and the northern side around is the long way to get to indro and presumably undesirable. To be honest I don't see it happening either way. UQ is a NIMU, Not In My Uni.

cant the qld govt over rule UQ though if they wanted to?
not that i think they ever would, it would be like playing with fire

Well they possibly could TOCC, they are the government. But the last point is probably the more likely outcome, they really wouldn't want to without UQ's support.

Building a tunnel isn't that hard - look at the Mater Hill Busway station - they had no room to begin with there (and buildings everywhere of course) but they still built the thing.

^
the mater wasn't that hard: they bought the few buildings next to the Mater Private and knocked them down for a cut & cover tunnel, then did a bore tunnel under Vulture street and the train lines to join up with it. The Mater Private was then extended over the tunnel.

As beastjim stated, this would be much harder.

Well they possibly could TOCC, they are the government. But the last point is probably the more likely outcome, they really wouldn't want to without UQ's support.

a contractual obligation is held regardless of who's involved.
- they can't claim public benefit to breach it
- they can't enact a law to invalidate it
- I very much doubt the terms would allow the govnerment to breach it and just pay damages.

IMHO, if they had a long term vision of a link between the SE Busway and Indooroopilly, they should have constructed a big long tunnel from the Pacific Mwy, past the Boggo Road area, under Dutton Park and the river, under UQ and emerge somewhere on the otherside, with underground stations at UQ, Dutton Park and anywhere else desirable.

For the peds and cyclists, just build a small bridge over the river with upgraded pedestrian and cycle facilities like they have done now :)

Should have aimed the bridge to the side of UQ rather than into the middle of it if they had intended to extend the thing.

Should have aimed the bridge to the side of UQ rather than into the middle of it if they had intended to extend the thing.


I wouldn't say the busway terminates in the middle of UQ, in fact it seems to be a fair way from most of the facilities. If UQ wanted they could easily allow it to cross the university overland and link by a tunnel under St Lucia suburb to Indroopillly. It is ironic that UQ who feel free to berate any private enterprise or the government about traffic issues should be the holdouts in this solution. They have fought this bridge and busway every step of the way.

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IMHO, if they had a long term vision of a link between the SE Busway and Indooroopilly, they should have constructed a big long tunnel from the Pacific Mwy, past the Boggo Road area, under Dutton Park and the river, under UQ and emerge somewhere on the otherside, with underground stations at UQ, Dutton Park and anywhere else desirable.

It's amazing you should say that - this is the EXACT route being mooted for the final tunnel in Campbell Newman's TransApex road project. Only difference being that it keeps on going until surfacing at the Western FWY. Would be nice to see some Busway work as a part of the project. Or just make it a busway instead...

Yep, the East-West Link road project is muted for after 2026. Hope I'm still around then.

East-West Link (http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/BCC:BASE:2105837341:pc=PC_1787)
The East-West Link is a proposed cross-river tunnel linking the Pacific Motorway and O'Keefe Street at Buranda with the Western Freeway and Toowong. This link will:

offer suburbs west of the Central Business District an alternative for cross-town travel, relieving traffic congestion on the Captain Cook and Walter Taylor bridges
improve travel for main trip generators on both sides of the river, including Toowong, Indooroopilly and the University of Queensland at St Lucia in the west and Woolloongabba, Princess Alexandra Hospital and Boggo Road in the east
cater for low traffic volumes – about 20,000 vehicles per day in 2021

The TransApex prefeasibility study found the East-West Link should be viewed as a project post 2026 with a review of traffic demand in 2011.


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Aimed for 2026?

Don't expect it until 2100.

My idea was for buses/light rail, NOT CARS.
:)

^^ I wouldn't say that where Newman is involved. It'll probably be here in 2010 :lol:

Maybe by then they'll decide to include a bus/light rail option as part of the project? Seems likely to me given the way PT is growing in QLD.

This is probably a stupid question but: instead of getting themselves into a contract where they can't compulsorally require UQ land, why didn't the Qld Government just compulsorally require the land in the first place? Why is there such a need to keep UQ on side? It's not like they're gonna up and go somewhere else.

its like pissing off workers unions, you just dont want to do it
this QLD Govt doesnt have the balls to do it anyway

And therein lies the real problem... :ohno:

This is probably a stupid question but: instead of getting themselves into a contract where they can't compulsorally require UQ land, why didn't the Qld Government just compulsorally require the land in the first place? Why is there such a need to keep UQ on side? It's not like they're gonna up and go somewhere else.

There's certainly the gouging-with-a-stick thing tht TOCC mentioned, but I think a lot of it just came down to speed. By caving in they go most of what they wanted, without wasting large amounts of time and money in the courts.

woops, went to post a photo but i didnt upload it, il do it tmw

SE busway has been reopened to two lanes at Buranda, yay!!

SE busway has been reopened to two lanes at Buranda, yay!!

'bout effing time to..

funny thing was, despite the sign saying lights not in use or something
the bus in front of me still stopped at where the light was.

il try to get out to the busway tmw to get some photos, Boggo Road area not the hospital part.

Green Bridge side of tunnel
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Boggo Road/Park Road Station
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Boggo Road portal
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Excellent, it is progressing along.

I'm sure this will make a big change to people using the bus to get to UQ, the present route through Wooloongabba takes ages.

...and the one before that took ageser :P

This is probably a stupid question but: instead of getting themselves into a contract where they can't compulsorally require UQ land, why didn't the Qld Government just compulsorally require the land in the first place? Why is there such a need to keep UQ on side? It's not like they're gonna up and go somewhere else.


UQ is Federal land, they can't resume it

I actually thought UQ owned the land. It was apparently gifted to them originally by the Mayne family, hence the couple of references to the name around the place.

UQ is Federal land, they can't resume it

Ahhhh, the thlot plickens. Ta mate.

Unless they build it under UQ anyway without them knowing and just surprise them one day by the construction of a massive exhaust stack.

:)

Leighton Contractors has just been selected to build the stage two of the Eastern Busway from Buranda to Coorparoo.

Media Release (http://www.leighton.com.au/verve/_resources/231208_mr.pdf)

that part of the eastern busway is similar to the current Norther Busway extension at the hospital, there full benefits wont be realised until the rest of the system is built

Leighton Contractors has just been selected to build the stage two of the Eastern Busway from Buranda to Coorparoo.

Media Release (http://www.leighton.com.au/verve/_resources/231208_mr.pdf)

good to hear that those rumours of the entire eastern busway being scrapped were wrong.

^^part of the Eastern Busway is also part of the projects listed in the Federal Governments Nation building fund

This morning

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Thanks for the updates Aussie Bhoy!

I'm not even going to bother visualising this until it's finished. What a mess! At least the area will have some new infrastructure and probably asthetic improvements by the time it's all done.

Love the pics AB.

thanks for that, yeah it looks a little messy but im pretty sure i get what is going on

is there going to be a bike path/pedestrian path attached to the side of the bridge over ipswich road?

^ Given the shape of the supporting structures, it sure looks like that, hey?

Would it be a station platform for the PA?

Would it be a station platform for the PA?

Correct

are you guys talking about what JVogt said?
we were talking about the overpass over Ipswich road, the supporting sturcture appears to be designed to accomadate a bike/pedestrian overpass as well, was just trying to confirm that.

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The 2 towers look very much like the lift and stair structures to me...

Yes, you're right but the bridge supports in the foreground have clearly defined areas for supporting bridge girders and then (on the left side) a strange curved extremity. Strange, but all will be revealed in time :P

The 2 towers look very much like the lift and stair structures to me...

ahh, that image you posted isnt Ipswich Road though, they definetly are the lift and stair structures for the station, but that is over the PA Hospital side of Ipswich Road.

this is what we are talking about, notice the support structure in the centre of the picture, how its rather odd shaped at the top. I was trying to confirm if that was for a pedestrian/bike path.
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I'm getting some information from a friend working on the NBRCHW, should have some answers by the end of the day.

i would assume so. This way they could link up with the bike path that runs along the beside the motorway, and enable people to access the hospital by bike/foot without crossing ipswich rd.

There will be no bike/pedestrian path over Ipswich Road. My friend just checked the plans and there's nothing there.

thanks exocet, i tried look at the plans on the eastern busway website last night but they dont really have any detailed plans

Let's hope they have direct services from the Southern Suburbs to University of Queensland. Should cut down cross city traffic by a third.

i dont think any of the tunnels went via St Lucia

i dont think any of the tunnels went via St Lucia

The Green Bridge?

Isn't that the point of this entire project (Boggo Rd)?

ah my apologies, i thought we were in a different thread

Let's hope they have direct services from the Southern Suburbs to University of Queensland. Should cut down cross city traffic by a third.

They already do, the 169 and 209.

^ do they go through the city?

no, they are both direct to St Lucia

^ do they go through the city?

if you're interested, here is a map of the backbone routes with the interchanges:

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it only takes 20min to get from Garden City to St Lucia these days, opposed to the 40min that it used to take..

Im sure we will be able to cut another 5min off that time once the boggo road and eastern busway(1st stage) is complete.

out of the blue
is there neccessay to run UQ buses in the holidays?
yesterday at carindale, i saw 2 UQ buses 209, running at 15mins each, empty.
Is there a neccessay?

Yes

probably not at the frequncey that they run at usually

probably not at the frequncey that they run at usually

They should be running at the base frequency which will attract choice passengers - i.e. 10 minutes.

However, I am not completely familiar with the route structure and there may be some scope for running them as shuttles, rather than direct services from the southern suburbs. This needs to be balanced with the inconvenience to passengers that periodic timetable changes bring.

School/uni holiday timetables have got to be the most fvcking annoying thing on a PT service, especially when its shithouse to begin with.

out of the blue
is there neccessay to run UQ buses in the holidays?
yesterday at carindale, i saw 2 UQ buses 209, running at 15mins each, empty.
Is there a neccessay?

It may be a holiday for you, but not for everyone - Both summer semester classes, there are about 50 undergraduate ones, and international student English inductions are being held currently. Academic and research staff usually get 2 weeks off over the Christmas and new year period, and vast majority came back this week. Post-students don't officially get any time off, but usually disappear when the staff do, and if they're doing any course work they came back for the 6th of the Jan when those started up again.

St Lucia isn't particularly busy, but there are quite a few people about.

So, yes: it's definitely necessary. There are certainly passengers getting on the 209 at UQ, even if the buses are empty by the time they get to Carindale.

The only route that is changed outside of the normal semesters is the 139, which stops entirely and reduces the number of buses heading south on the busway by half: the frequency is still quite decent being 10-15 min during peak, 30 min off peak.

Go to UQ on any given day over the summer holidays and you'll see plenty of people. PT at these times is necessary.

thanks for all the info
i suppose i should visit other Unis more often

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After that accident a few months ago, they are catching up with night work on the Park Road busway station. Its going up quite quickly now with the framework for the overhead bridge going up and the slab is being laid. I'll get pics of that section tonight if they're working.

This morning, Ipswich road has been crossed

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Ah you did goto Park Road. I've been watching it since I started working there from nothing to this!

^^ The new busway style overhead walkway should extend to a 3rd tower over the Park Rd station to replace that awful, bland, orange roofed thing (last pic).

The whole thing should be visually consistent IMO.

Excuse my ignorance, but what is the project u/c in the background of those pics with the blue scafolding all over it????

^
That would be the Ecosciences building, part of the Boggo Road Urban village.

^^ The new busway style overhead walkway should extend to a 3rd tower over the Park Rd station to replace that awful, bland, orange roofed thing (last pic).

The whole thing should be visually consistent IMO.

Yeah thats how they built stations in the 90's. Cheap and nasty. I have heard Park Road may be getting a beautification upgrade soon with new plants, lights, drainage etc.

Yeah thats how they built stations in the 90's. Cheap and nasty. I have heard Park Road may be getting a beautification upgrade soon with new plants, lights, drainage etc.

90's? i dont think it was even that long ago, more like 2001

I actually think some of the more recently renovated (2008) train stations are going to age very badly, very quickly. By comparison, I think all the busway stations have been very well done, and will age gracefully.

^^ I would agree with that. I've always been quite impressed with the Busway stations. Some of them really look pretty decent.

By comparison, I've never been able to figure out how QR can be so woeful at making decent stations. Some a truly awful.

yeah, some of the bridges look like they've just grabbed old sleeper carriages, taken the wheels off and bunged 'em up on some stilts.

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This is gunning along now! Can't wait for completion.

how good of a position would a stadium at boggo road be, both rail and busway access

Dont worry, Bligh said she'd knock the hospital down and build one if she was re-elected :P

According to Springborg anyway...

So what are the cranes for? Any decent buildings, decent heights? I don't remember seeing any renders on these.

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^^ I would assume these are for the Boggo Road Urban Village project (or something along these lines... QLDers feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).

It's great to see these photos, thanks heaps Aussie Bhoy! I'll be up in Brissy for Easter weekend, so it'd be awesome to check this out while I'm up there!

It is the Ecosciences Precinct. The first part, and centrepiece of the Boggo Rd Urban Village. It is jointly being developed by the QLD government and the CSIRO. Will be home to 1,000 scientists on completion in 2011.

By the way, the busway is supposed to be completed in mid 2009... Not long...

Are there any more stations after park road?

There was a project around this area that had 2 cranes but 1 got taken down the other day. Might be that Mivac project.

It is the Ecosciences Precinct. The first part, and centrepiece of the Boggo Rd Urban Village. It is jointly being developed by the QLD government and the CSIRO. Will be home to 1,000 scientists on completion in 2011.

Oh thanks for that. Sounds very cerebral.
j

^^ Funny you should say that... Bligh herself used the words "cerebral cortex" in her description of the project... :lol:

Are there any more stations after park road?

bus stations?

SE-Busway-->PA Hospital--->Boggo Road--->Dutton Park-->UQ St Lucia

bus stations?

SE-Busway-->PA Hospital--->Boggo Road--->Dutton Park-->UQ St Lucia

To clarify - the the last station before entering the Boggo Road Busway will be Mater Hill for city services, Woolloongabba for eastern services and Buranda for southern services. Dutton Park will only be a better than average quality bus stop instead of a full-blown station, just to allow transfers to Gladstone and Annerley Road buses.

View from the PAH station:

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h11/KJBrissy/viewfromPAHosp.jpg

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h11/KJBrissy/viewfromPAHosp2.jpg

Under PAH:

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h11/KJBrissy/underPAHosp.jpg

Towards UQ:

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h11/KJBrissy/toUQ.jpg

Looking across Ipswich Road to PAH station:

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h11/KJBrissy/StructureacrossIpswichRd2.jpg

Boggo Road Station:

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h11/KJBrissy/ParkRoadstn5.jpg

Boggo Road Station:

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h11/KJBrissy/ParkRoadstn3.jpg

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h11/KJBrissy/ParkRoadstn2.jpg

PAH to Boggo Road Tunnel:

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h11/KJBrissy/PAHtoBoggotunnel.jpg

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h11/KJBrissy/PAHtoBoggotunnel2.jpg

PAH Station:

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h11/KJBrissy/PAHstn.jpg

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h11/KJBrissy/PAHosp.jpg

On a cost-benefit analysis, Brisbane's experience with the "busway" concept must be the most effective form of public transport in the country.

^^ which is sad since we should look at better public transport options
but i guess with our city size, busway is probably what we needed the most

Great update, how did you get access?

^^ which is sad since we should look at better public transport options
but i guess with our city size, busway is probably what we needed the most

Busways are great. Far more efficient than the Sydney or Melbourne train network

Great update, how did you get access?

People I know from QT went on a tour through the Busway.

Great update

+100

KJ what are the extra support pillars for going in after everything else is done? (you can see them in your fifth photo). It looks like some extra structure is going in ie bikeway/ walkway etc but I haven't heard anything about that.

Yeah, I'd say that's the new bikepath - I'm now pretty certain that's the reason for the strange curved shape to the support structures over Ipswich Rd. In fact, I think you can see the bike path in the 2nd photo from KJBrissy's first post.

Yeah, I'd say that's the new bikepath - I'm now pretty certain that's the reason for the strange curved shape to the support structures over Ipswich Rd. In fact, I think you can see the bike path in the 2nd photo from KJBrissy's first post.

yeah i pointed these support beams out quite a few months back in this thread, and someone said they checked with there mate involved with the project and that a bikepath wasnt part of the plan.

obviously it looks like they have made provision for it at least

Busways are great. Far more efficient than the Sydney or Melbourne train network

cant really comment on other cities' train network
i guess you are right
i mean look at SE busway
will it be that successful if it is a trainline?

yeah i pointed these support beams out quite a few months back in this thread, and someone said they checked with there mate involved with the project and that a bikepath wasnt part of the plan.

obviously it looks like they have made provision for it at least

Yep, had a friend who works in the NBAlliance snatch the eastern busway plans and have a quick look. Her exact words were "There is nothing in the plans to indicate anything other than a two-lane busway going over ipswich road"

Boggo Road Station:

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h11/KJBrissy/ParkRoadstn3.jpg

FYI, I did the lighting design at Cultural Centre, I put 2 identicle rows of lights over the platforms (2+2 per bay), not 2+1, only required 10 more lights over the entire project (about $1k). Having one light over the seats created noticable shadows if one or two failed, not great for vision impared people.

will it be that successful if it is a trainline?

You need to define "success"

I played golf with one of the engineers on this project a couple of weeks ago and asked him how the busways were being fitted so they were ready for conversion to light-rail. He replied that the footings are usually 300mm for busways but they have made these a lot thicker for future light-rail. Just a tit-bit of info for anyone who was wondering the same thing. He also mentioned that light-rail would be introduced once the busway is at peak patronage for buses only after I mentioned that wouldn't it be a futile exercise.

Haven't we already proven light rail can't handle the passenger numbers of buses.

^^ erm...surely that would depend on the number of carriages and frequency of the light rail system proposed.

For example, a three carriage train running at 5 minute intervals can easily move millions of passengers a year...I used to use the Docklands Lght Railway in London for nearly 4 years and, believe me, it carried a lot more passengers than the local bus network could ever hope to move over the same geographic area...

By 2012 it is expected to carry more than 100 million passengers a year. Imagine how many buses you would need to move that number of people over a 34 km total distance at journey times of no more than 30 minutes....

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesoftransport/1530.aspx

Haven't we already proven light rail can't handle the passenger numbers of buses.

wat

^^ erm...surely that would depend on the number of carriages and frequency of the light rail system proposed.

For example, a three carriage train running at 5 minute intervals can easily move millions of passengers a year...I used to use the Docklands Lght Railway in London for nearly 4 years and, believe me, it carried a lot more passengers than the local bus network could ever hope to move over the same geographic area...

By 2012 it is expected to carry more than 100 million passengers a year. Imagine how many buses you would need to move that number of people over a 34 km total distance at journey times of no more than 30 minutes....

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesoftransport/1530.aspx


A busway would only need to run buses at 20sec intervals to carry 100million passengers a year. Very possible to run them at 5-10 sec intervals.

It really depends on how you design your bus system, to match light/heavy rapid transit systems.

One way to design the busway to exceed any rail line's capacity (which mind you, the South-East Busway does carry more people than any rail line - an unfair comparison given that the trains run at a lower frequency);

- An all-stops shuttle only service: From Eight-Mile-Plains to the City (possibly through to the Northern Busway) will form the trunk route, buses then travel in packs of three (a 'bus-train' - they could be tuned down to packs of two or one during off-peak times) (the average length of a busway station) run tightly stopping at all stops (pretty much the design of a light rail systems)
- Wider platforms: All-stop platform stations would require only one lane, no overtaking lane needed. This could provide much needed platform space.
- Front and rear door bus entry for faster loading: This would require a) railway station-like go card readers in the entrance portals to the busway stations; b) ticket machines at busway stations (why they don't have them now is beyond me) and c) ticket enforcers on-board the buses themselves
- Station announcements at busway stations: More design considerations taken from railway systems. Example "The.... one-thirty (130) Parkinson BUZ will arrive in approximately 2 minutes, this is a three-car bus-train, please stand behind the yellow safety line" or if you're waiting at Holland Park West busway station, "The one-thirty (130) BUZ does not stop at this station, please wait approximately 4 minutes for the triple-one (111)"
- Buses with less seats and more doors: Have metro-like buses. Standing up on a bus service on the South-East Busway is actually not that bad, compared to standing on a bus mingling with general traffic (stop-start congestion, traffic lights, unsuitable gradients for the power and weight of the buses)
- Lesser routes (non-trunk routes) that use the busway, must terminate at their local busway station: example route 183 and 177 mirror each other except that the 183 continues to QSBS (at certain times of the day) whilst the 177 terminates at Griffith Uni busway station. People must transfer. Only priority routes will continue through to the city.
- Tighter coordination of bus-train groups: Especially if they run on bus-only routes. Minimal interference from traffic and patrons is crucial. At busway stations maybe timers would be used to countdown the approximate departure time from stations (e.g. the bus-trains wait for 30 seconds before departing; Station announcements would be crucial: "Bus doors closing, please stand clear"). Although if you do have some bus-trains bypassing other bus-trains it may skew or interfere with the signal blocks and shuffle bus arrival orders.
- Invisible signal blocks (another idea stolen from railway management - particularly the SkyTrain Vancouver): Where bus-trains are assigned an invisible, moving signal block moving as-of-right-of-way. Communication between the bus-trains and headquarters would help with real-time passenger information systems as well. More real-time information concerning with next bus, and their stops/areas serviced (similar to railway stations and to QSBS and KGSBS). These signal blocks attempt to overcome congestion at times on the busways.
- Priority bus routes must be acknowledged: Example, the Mains Road corridor (Routes 130, 140) must, a) have bus lanes, b) traffic light priority (that when a bus-train approaches the traffic lights, it must be green-lighted), c) dignified bus stop treatments (would be nice to wait in a pleasant environment)
- With less routes at some stations, busway station designs could be modified, for example, the Cultural Centre busway station could have one inbound (IB) platform, one IB lane, one outbound (OB) lane, one OB platform, one IB platform, one IB lane, one OB lane, one OB platform. One group of IB-OB platforms would be for local services (199 BUZ) and Adelaide/Ann/Elizabeth Street bound bus-trains; whilst the other group of IB-OB platforms would be for SE Busway and QSBS/KGSBS/Northern Busway bound bus-trains. Intersection designs around the place must conform with the principle of minimal interference with each others' signalling blocks. Victoria Bridge would also become a 'Green Bridge', to reduce traffic signal interference by space inefficient private vehicles.
- Renovate QSBS, current design is inefficient for bus-trains; KGSBS would be the main central bus-hub for a while - which gives an opportunity for bus-trains to copy another practice from the Citytrain network, through-routing, no more terminating at QSBS, the 111 could continue through the Northern Busway
- Investigate the appropriateness of bi-articulated buses to replace the bus-trains: Maybe allowed for some busway-only routes.



Think train, use bus lawl.

I played golf with one of the engineers on this project a couple of weeks ago and asked him how the busways were being fitted so they were ready for conversion to light-rail. He replied that the footings are usually 300mm for busways but they have made these a lot thicker for future light-rail. Just a tit-bit of info for anyone who was wondering the same thing. He also mentioned that light-rail would be introduced once the busway is at peak patronage for buses only after I mentioned that wouldn't it be a futile exercise.


what footing dimension is 300mm? sorry i am confused

I gotta say, I like your thinking on this one, peetone. Problem is, it requires a LOT of complex coordination and planning. I'm not sure Translink are capable? Pretty much zero information is provided for bus services at present, and they're still out of sync with timetables, don't show up etc etc. It would take some pretty serious commitment like we've not seen before.

The "bus trains" are a must. As more and more people use the network, the buses are too small. Sometimes there's a huge backlog of people waiting. If three showed up and once it'd be a miracle.

Also like the idea of bi-articulated buses. The government were apparently pursuing this one a while back, but everything has gone very quiet since the announcement. Makes me think they've changed their minds. It would be the most effective method of implementing high capacity busway only services by a long shot. Nobody has any updates on what happened with this?

Lord Mayor's Taskforce Brisbane: Mass Transit Investigation - Sept 2007
http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/BCC:STANDARD::pc=PC_2698

The document heavily favours bus rapid transit and bi-articulated buses. 'Table 8-1: Comparison of light rail and Bus Rapid Transit' on page 40, shows the bias clearly (not to mention the capitalisation of Bus Rapid Transit!). The document is ok, at least it recognised the 'type of service' rather than a straight-up 'mode versus mode' argument (page 38). But on the same page, my biggest concern is this point, that;
"the new Mass Transit service should have the following characteristics:

- able to share road space with general traffic"

(no! get the hell out of here, Adelaide Street just fails at peak PM times because of mingling with general traffic - the best part is when the Australia Post van parks on the side, forcing buses to sit in traffic to get around it, instead of allowing buses travelling at a-speed-that-looks-like-it's-going-to-clip-some-standing-passengers-by-zooming-up-the-parking-lane).

Either way, light rail versus bus-based transit, it must be carefully designed to produce the same reliability, comfort, permanence, dominance and connectedness benefits seen from the point of view of the (potential and existing) passenger. One crucial element I want is that a dedicated corridor must be provided, i.e. reduce access/road supply for private vehicles (shared corridor may be extended to emergency vehicles, or a pricey-permit system for delivery vehicles if need be...)

Only thing I can see that would limit the commitment towards this is the political conflict between TL and BT.

- able to share road space with general traffic"

Would be interesting to know exactly what's meant by this. Do they mean they intend on a shared roadspace system at large, or they want it as an means of "added flexibility" or feeder routes?

Hopefully it's just the latter, which isn't necessarily a bad idea. But you're right, it is hard to know.

In relation to larger buses, I just picked up the Autumn edition of a "Living in Brisbane" newsletter (got it in the mail today). Page 3 has an image of a new "superbus" which is being introduced to replace several retiring articulated vehicles. It's nearly as long as an articulated bus, but with no articulation... Just rigid the entire length of the body. It looks weird!

Article says they're 14.5m long (arics are 18m), carry 30 additional passengers & 8 will be on the road by June (whilst 6 articulated models are retired). To be used on major routes, busways and for special events.

So... They've gone from artics, to double artics, to smaller, rigid models? Eh?

KJ what are the extra support pillars for going in after everything else is done? (you can see them in your fifth photo). It looks like some extra structure is going in ie bikeway/ walkway etc but I haven't heard anything about that.

beauyboy on railpage has mentioned that there is definitly a bikeway, and these links shows the path it follows.

http://cbdbug.googlepages.com/BoggoRoadplans-May2008.jpg

http://cbdbug.googlepages.com/A3-BoggoRoadCycleway.pdf

This cycle forum seems to have been talking about it since 2008

http://www.bicycles.net.au/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10785&sid=68886eb4bd854f3bacd8ce49a89aaade

Urgh, why isn't that bikeway not going directly over the rail line to Boggo Urban Village?

And that multi-storey car park between the hospital and the busway station has to be a joke. Bonus points for showcasing Australia's obesity problem through urban design. A better spot would be north of the busway station, where (what looks like) that surface car park is. With the current location of the multi-storey car park for.... cheap housing (that has very few to no parking spaces per unit)? office space? daycare centre? more services that would compliment the Boggo Urban Village?

And Marty, I'm pretty sure that they would want a PT system that would 'share' road space, i.e. a bus every 5 minutes, would still have 4 minutes of just nothing - space which could be used for other traffic (but oops if they get stuck at traffic lights). Our ever-brilliant, fearless and handsome lord mayor is known for closing bus lanes and opening them for general traffic (even though a well designed bus network would support a bus lane, moving more people than a lane of general traffic).

You need to define "success"

patronage levels, frequencies and efficiencies
and no im not talking about light rail but heavy rail

Urgh, why isn't that bikeway not going directly over the rail line to Boggo Urban Village?

money....

what footing dimension is 300mm? sorry i am confused

The road base. Apparently it has to be thicker if it were to accomodate light rail in the future.

money....

Can I blame NSBT?

The road base. Apparently it has to be thicker if it were to accomodate light rail in the future.

I get it, light rail is.... heavier!

In relation to larger buses, I just picked up the Autumn edition of a "Living in Brisbane" newsletter (got it in the mail today). Page 3 has an image of a new "superbus" which is being introduced to replace several retiring articulated vehicles. It's nearly as long as an articulated bus, but with no articulation... Just rigid the entire length of the body. It looks weird!

Article says they're 14.5m long (arics are 18m), carry 30 additional passengers & 8 will be on the road by June (whilst 6 articulated models are retired). To be used on major routes, busways and for special events.

So... They've gone from artics, to double artics, to smaller, rigid models? Eh?14.5m rigids and artics have roughly the same capacity due to the WH&S crap about not standing in the articulation section - ~95 people. The rigids are less flexible due to their larger turning path and cannot be used in many places (eg. corner Edward/Alice St being the most obvious one... regular buses have difficulties)

Can I blame NSBT?

Different levels of government for each project.

Blame Airport Link :lol:

Does anyone know which stores will be featured in the boggo road development and the heights of the buildings within the development

^^ Right now they're not building any parts of the development besides the ecosciences building... At least that's my understanding. The rest is still in various stages of planning.

^^ They should be aiming for heavy, not light rail for these eventually. Look at the SE Busway, it already carries more than any of QR's lines.

Dear guvvernmentz, plz make eastern busway heavy rail.

^^ Right now they're not building any parts of the development besides the ecosciences building... At least that's my understanding. The rest is still in various stages of planning.

Correct, Watpac are only constructing the Biosciences building (precinct 2 or 3) and infrastructure works. The remainder of the precincts are to be tendered to private developers to design the mixed-use and residential building according to the approved plan, of which i believe 2 have been released. Havn't seen any specific designs yet.

My own feelings is that the development plan was concieved before the current Brisbane City Plan, which promotes more significant development, and thus the building heights/densities should be increased. a series of 4 level buildings on a major transit node is a bit of a waste.

Does anyone know where I can get the latest details of the Boggo Road Urban Village? The best I could dig up was http://www.boggoroad.com.au/files/pdf/revisedstructureplan(text).pdf (2007) [for those interested in pretty maps see http://www.boggoroadurbanvillage.com/files/pdf/StructurePlan.pdf (2005)]. I'm interested in the parking arrangements at a supposed TOD:

These are what I can find, and so far it's OK-ish, providing for parking maximums:

- for residential development, the number of car parking spaces does not exceed 1.2 spaces per one bedroom or smaller dwelling unit and 2.2 spaces for all two bedroom or larger units
- for Ecosciences precinct purposes, the number of carparking spaces does not exceed 1 space per 125m2 of gross floor area;
- for Office purposes, the number of carparking spaces does not exceed 1
space per 200m2 of gross floor area; and
- for all other non–residential development the number of car parking
spaces does not exceed 1 space per 60m2 of gross floor area
Page 16.

However, the parking maximums aren't at a level where innovative thinking and ways of catering for parking are need to be met. This level is the number of car parking spaces, for residential developments, does not exceed 0.9 spaces per dwelling unit, irregardless of bedroom size. Now, seeing as it is at 0.9, this spawns a whole bunch more thinking and effort required by the developer to come up with a parking management regime, some examples include:

- Decoupling of parking and dwelling units (selling the house and parking spaces separately - maximum available of one space per person; allows units to be much more affordable)
- Require enforcement of parking restrictions within and near the area (to reduce on-street parking conflicts with nearby residents/businesses; this might include enforcement of a 2hr parking zone around the area and residential on-street parking permits outside the urban village; inside the urban village, on-street parking is priced per hour)
- On-site car sharing schemes (membership could be free for residents within the urban village)
- Local bicycle users' group whose sole aim is to support and encourage cycling in and around the area (not just for residents, but for people visiting/working in the village)
- For businesses, instead of providing parking spaces for employees, they could provide a cash-in-lieu payment

Urgh, why isn't that bikeway not going directly over the rail line to Boggo Urban Village?



Cost mainly.

They looked at going over the top but the number or rail lines there is large and the freight rail line is significantly higher than the city bound lines. This creates huge grades that would be required and also requires pylons for any supposed bikeway to be widely spaced.

They then looked at going underneath with the Busway but the piles created by the rail corridor were only wide enough for the Busway only.

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4 months to go and both busways and the bikeway will be completed.
It will be interesting how the bikeway connects at O'keeth st

Donald

well this will mean that the 3 major hospitals are now connected, i wonder if we could ever see ambulances running along the busway in some form of patient transfer

well this will mean that the 3 major hospitals are now connected, i wonder if we could ever see ambulances running along the busway in some form of patient transfer

i'm sure they could do that, but i can't imagine a need ever arising, they're all tertiary hospitals who can deal with most shit.

Each hospital does specialise in different departments. For example, the Intensive Care unit at the Royal Brisbane Hospital is the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. They transfer patients there from all over, including outside Australia (pacific region, torres strait, papua new guinea etc). Also, the most serious burns victims from the recent boat explosion off WA were sent there as the other places didn't have facilities to deal with burns to more than 40% of the body. The PA is also good for something... But I forget what it was...

I would almost certainly think they'd let ambulances use the busway when needed.

Each hospital does specialise in different departments. For example, the Intensive Care unit at the Royal Brisbane Hospital is the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. They transfer patients there from all over, including outside Australia (pacific region, torres strait, papua new guinea etc). Also, the most serious burns victims from the recent boat explosion off WA were sent there as the other places didn't have facilities to deal with burns to more than 40% of the body. The PA is also good for something... But I forget what it was...

I would almost certainly think they'd let ambulances use the busway when needed.

but they would stabilise patient's at their own hospital before transfering. Therefore the need to 'speed through the busway' on an emergency transfer for would never happen. I agree it's a romantic notion of fully utilizing our wonderful transport system for the good of the people but it's a tad unrealistic. Ofeo works at royal icu (or used to) so if he happens to agree with you, i will happily except his authority, but I doubt he would agree.

ps - the pa does transplants and is also a trauma centre now aswell, although the intention originally was to have the royal as the main trauma centre.

And I would have thought that the Busway would be slow as there are no places to overtake or pull off to the side with an Ambulance behind you.

Some time ago one of my buses was passed by an ambulance on the SEB inbound (opposing directions). Also have seen police regularly and one fire service.

Buranda was 2 way traffic again this morning.

Buranda was 2 way traffic again this morning.

YAY! The one morning I dont catch the bus...hopefully it lasts longer than last time they reopened it.

^^^ You didn't miss much, we were held up longer than the lights as they dragged a broken buss off the busway just as you entered the south tunnel. But fingers crossed we keep it for awhile.

Each hospital does specialise in different departments. For example, the Intensive Care unit at the Royal Brisbane Hospital is the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. They transfer patients there from all over, including outside Australia (pacific region, torres strait, papua new guinea etc). Also, the most serious burns victims from the recent boat explosion off WA were sent there as the other places didn't have facilities to deal with burns to more than 40% of the body. The PA is also good for something... But I forget what it was...

I would almost certainly think they'd let ambulances use the busway when needed.

I'm with Danubis that the usefulness of them being able to transfer patients via the busways quickly is quite low. Either the patients would be stable or they wouldn't transfer them. While it's true that each of the hospitals has areas they are the primary node for, these would be the centres that patients would be directed to either get routine treatment or would have been sent by ambulance originally following whatever acute condition they developed. The changing circumstances of a patient shouldn't require a shift between the major hospitals, as essentially all facilities and specialties are available at both it's just that the expertise isn't always equally divided.

They main situation were this route could be used is in neonatals once the Brisbane Childrens Hospital is developed beside the Mater. If there somehow an emergency requiring a pediatric surgeon following a birth at Herston, the line is that the kid would be made as stable as possible neonatal department at the RBWH and then transfered by ambulance to the new hospital. Most of those cases are recogniseable well before the birth, and arrangements are made to have them at the right hospital. For example at the moment Qld hospitals have been banned from performing the corrective opperation for newborns with hypoplastic left heart (100% fatality in all attempts), so the parents sent to Melbourne, which is one of the reasons the Brisbane Childrens Hospital was proposed in the first place.

Some time ago one of my buses was passed by an ambulance on the SEB inbound (opposing directions). Also have seen police regularly and one fire service

Ambulances do travel by the Busway when bringing new emergences into the PA and when Logan isn't able to cope.

Well the only sort of situation where I could imagine patient transfers being conducted on the busway would be if there was some sort of catastrophic traffic incident (such as the Riverside Expressway being closed) which meant it could take a horrendous amount of time to transfer them between hospitals.

love your updates AB, keep it up plz!

Well the only sort of situation where I could imagine patient transfers being conducted on the busway would be if there was some sort of catastrophic traffic incident (such as the Riverside Expressway being closed) which meant it could take a horrendous amount of time to transfer them between hospitals.

yes i agree, it would be a fabulous asset in such a circumstance.

Station signage is now being erected at Boggo Road, the various platforms fittings are now also taking shape.

How many levels are they going up in the Boggo Road Site

^^

Same as a regular busway station: Concourse level/overhead bridge and two platforms & roadway below.

How many levels are they going up in the Boggo Road Site

Are you referring to the busway station or the bioscience building?

Are you referring to the busway station or the bioscience building?

Bioscience Buillding as well as other buildings cause i can see them just going up and up, from my street

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These guys look really close to being completed and you would wonder if they could get everything happening for the start of the second semester at UQ.

Also travelled on the train on the Cleveland line for the first time in a long time, I didn't actually realise how close the PA busway station and Boggo Road stations are. You would have to think that if wasn't for one of the biggest train intersections in Brisbane occurring in-between the two, one station might have sufficed. Also these two stations look of rather traditional busway design, compared to RBH which appears a bit different.

^
though situated close to each other, i doubt one station would have sufficed. With the planned development around the PA (expansion of the hospital, the pharmacy school, new research centers including the massive TRI) and Boggo Road both stations should be well utilised. As an aside, i think the RCH and RBH stations are closer to each other.

Very Interesting!
Good to see both the Busway and bikeway should be both finished at the same time.

It will be good to see how many people use the Busway once it opens.

Thank you for the update!

Donald

Nothing too exciting here... Just the green cladding on the bridge.

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Looks a little funny that glass.

I wish QR would take note, their idea of protecting overpasses normally looks like it belongs in a prison. They have ruined some great views.

I think the colour might be off a little by virtue of the morning sun being so strong. It was about 6:30am.

Either way, it's erm... Interesting.

"erm....interesting" is right. very translink though.

all it needs now is some big, yellow, pineapple-shaped, street lights.

Yes why not complete the fruit salad!

The tunnel and Boggo Road Station was all lit up tonight, it looks all complete, even ad signage at the station now.

I'll be checking this out with a few buddies on Sunday - anybody else coming down?

I'm always coming down/

I will be there, missed last weekend's opening because of work, but this is the one I'm more excitied about. Should be quite a stroll if the open day includes everything from the ES bridge to Ipswich Rd.

Will be there, I'll be making my way from the bridge.

I can't make it on Sunday, unfortunately. Please take a good load of pics! :)

The open day will be sure to afford some views that would otherwise be hard to get.

I'll be checking this out with a few buddies on Sunday - anybody else coming down?

I'll be there. I'm meeting friends at King George Square at 9:30am Sunday Morning and we are taking the 111 to Buranda. I think there will be quite a few of us as several of them are bus drivers. I was told I can bring friends if I like :)
Should be a good day.

j

Will be there somewhere anyway - but not quite so early in the morning.

I'm always coming down/

:rofl:

I take it there will be a ribbon cutting ceremony involved in this. Any idea which location?

I am going down tomorrow as well... should be pretty good! Such a pity the 109 won't be using it :(

should we retire this thread? or continue it with eastern busway stuff?

Continue! They've begun tunnelling under O'Keefe Street, and most of the housing removals for the new O'Keefe Street busway entrance, Norman Creek crossing, and Langlands Busway Station are finished.

Of course continue... The Eastern Busway is very much under construction!

maybe just change the title to eastern busway though

I guess when the Main Ave extension is done, the 209 won't go via Woolloongabba anymore?

Bugger.

Wow, this Lady Blah Blah banned already, didn't take long.

^^ its school holidays, Widget's back

Any more news?

Today

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I like the way they're actually using the busways to revitalise areas. The RBH station has totally transformed the hospital and a huge section of street-frontage. It's quite architectural... Not to mention art installations.

There's also heaps of planting around the Boggo Rd Busway near the PA Hospital in an area that used to look pretty gross.

The Eastern Busway is another opportunity to spruce up a drab part of the city and spark further revitalisation.

Is that Stone's Corner? I'm lost.

^^yeah - it is. In the 3rd photo if you go ahead at the roundabout you will hit the PA, and if you turn right, you will hit the Gabba

In the 4th photo, why are they building that part of the busway? I mean will it be a cut & cover tunnel or a ramp that connects the SouthEast busway to the Eastern Busway.

A cut and cover tunnel that will connect to the busway where buses can currently join from that road (and will still be able to join).

At the moment there's a joining ramp from the SE Busway (just south of Buranda station) that goes to O'Keefe. It's very short, maybe 100-150m. To the immediate right of it, there'll be another ramp diving straight under O'Keefe Street and into that angled bit of land that used to house a petrol station. It's between Logan Road and O'Keefe Street, across the road from GE Money and that "MUFFLER" place that has been there for 9384 years.

anything major happen since january 2nd? i don't get over the southside often to hava looksee...


edit:

just went onto the website - the last update newsletter was for dec 09...

http://download.translink.com.au/busways/eastern/091201_newsletter.pdf

i do like the project progress graph on the side - seems to indicate that the overall project is about 1/5 the way through as of december :P

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/danubiis/easternbuswayprojectprogressdec09.png

The ramp down from the SE Busway to under O'Keefe Street is really taking shape, and apparently the tunnelling between O'Keefe and Logan Road is complete.

They're just about to reconnect the new water mains around the Main Ave/Old Cleveland Road intersection, but that area's still a gigantic mess. It's such a shame that they raised Langlands Station because a) it's going to make a tunnel integration for the next stage a horrendous nightmare and b) the whole point of putting this section mostly underground was to protect the houses, but they've pretty much now had to obliterate all the houses that the tiny new tunnel is going to go under anyway.

There is tonnes of work going on with this project over a very large area. OC Rd from the motorway to Main Ave is flanked by earthworks. Lots of buildings are gone.

They're just about to reconnect the new water mains around the Main Ave/Old Cleveland Road intersection, but that area's still a gigantic mess. It's such a shame that they raised Langlands Station because a) it's going to make a tunnel integration for the next stage a horrendous nightmare and b) the whole point of putting this section mostly underground was to protect the houses, but they've pretty much now had to obliterate all the houses that the tiny new tunnel is going to go under anyway.

Really? I'm happy that they're building the busway station now, rather than the previous option, which was to simply build premium stops on the accessway out of the station.

At least this way, there is already the station there, and when they go to build the next section, it'll still be able to be used.

Although I haven't looked through proper plans, so I don't know about the height differences or gradients, but I do think, from the artist's impression in that pamphlet that the station may be a little high for where the station will enter the tunnel under OCR.

They'll probably just demolish a building across the road and do cut and cover for a little bit to get the tunnel lower, then start boring.

update from Nearmap on the 25th April

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a cool little 3D function thing which I only just discovered.

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There is tonnes of work going on with this project over a very large area. OC Rd from the motorway to Main Ave is flanked by earthworks. Lots of buildings are gone.

When did this start?
I went through in mid-April and OC Road seemed as per normal. Then again, I don't go around this area much.

See the image above... Heaps of machinery and whatnot is visible around Main Ave. Almost all the houses on Anthony John's development site are gone. The O'Keefe St roundabout is surrounded. The feeling when you drive through is one of 100% action. It has changed the area a lot already.

Today

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I'm really impressed at how builders can get such an nice finish straight out of their concrete forms these days.

I'm really impressed at how builders can get such an nice finish straight out of their concrete forms these days.

Me too. I think this photo in particular shows just how good it can get.

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All of the piling for this project is complete, according to their latest newsletter.

I'm surprised how quickly this seems to be going. Too bad the construction team will leave at the end - should keep going through to Carindale at least...

Four of twelve bridge spans for the creek-to-tunnel Stones Corner section are complete. This thing should be open early, depending on how long it takes for them to build Langlands Park Busway.

The integration of the end of this busway is monstrous. It will be a disaster to revert to the original design for the tunnel under Old Cleveland Road for the next stage.

That's why I don't understand why they have done this. At least if the station was below-grade, the next stage would fit in much easier.

Will they have to rebuild Langlands stations if they continue the busway in the future?

I'd say so. It's going to be barely a metre below the road level, if it's below it at all.

I can't help but think they're going to go "fuck it, the Carina tram tracks start soon, convert the Eastern Busway to light rail the whole way through". But I don't think that's a good idea. The SE Busway would not work as well as it does if it were light rail because it is such a good trunk and branches system.

^^And such good congestion where they all meet ;)

TBH I'm surprised they can get the Eastern Busway up without significant changes to bus routes in the area.

Today

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Today

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As noted before, the concrete finish on this project is really, really nice. Better than the Airport Link ramps at Bowen Hills by a long shot. Smooth lines, perfect surfaces.

They shouldn't have painted it though, was nothing wrong with the concrete finish, if they wanted a bit of colour chuck in some oxide into the mix - done, and no maintenance.

Thanks for the update, Aussie Bhoy!

This must be close, the SEB-EB intersection is very close to complete.

looks like its nearly finished, but will sit there till december so anna can have a big yell about it for the election.

Everything around Logan Road looks done.

looks like its nearly finished, but will sit there till december so anna can have a big yell about it for the election.

I thought it was a BCC thing tho?

Nope, busways are state gov. :)

Fyfoto Transupdate | Eastern Busway | Completed August 2011


I went to visit the Eastern Busway to have a look at what has eventuated, left the Cultural Centre busway station on the new 222 service.

I happened to be the only one on it, so I made a remark about the lack of patronage, to the driver, a very enlighting and enjoyable chat ensued, we passed South Bank, no takers, passed Mater Hill, no takers as well this was the same with Buranda (Translink really need to promote this new route like they did the 111,77 and route 888 etc).



LANGLANDS PARK
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ANYWAYYYYY thanked the bus driver and got off @ Langlands station, If the state government are to commended on one thing, it is that they have got the design of these busway stations right from the beginning and for once stuck with it.(cough cough QR!)

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The station contains all of your usual Translink colour palettes, the orange signage, the LED displays as well as charcoal grey steelwork and muffled transparent green/aquamarine glass panels.

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Langlands Park also has great city views/glimpses and it will be a spot I will remember to return to in my updates.

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Landscaping and surrounding area done very nicely.

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It is from Langlands park I caught a inbound 222 to Stones Corner, in reality the proximity of these two stations is something to laugh at(see above) , they really didn't think that through properly, anyway stones corner was relatively the same(colours layout etc) bar a few minor differences.
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STONES CORNER

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The entire station is on large REX like pylons (I presume for flood mitigation).

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And different to LP Stones Corner has LCD displays, not really sure why the difference.

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There is a park and ride, kiss and ride whatever you want call it , underneath and the landscaping has been done well.
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The plaza linking the station with the stones corner precinct is clean,versatile and pretty awesome to look at.

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I dont know what this was for but it looks funky.

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Overall a wonderful addition to our busway network.

Well done! Awesome pictures

FFS QR, Sack your architects use the busway design just make the platforms higher.

Great photos! Yes the Stones Corner carpark is very flood prone.

Hopefully the new station will help revitalise the area.

If nothing else, the busway station design does always look good, and all match each other. Ok, they have been built in a shorter period of time than the QR stations (over 100 years), but still...

Thanks for the review!

Excellent photo tour of the new stations.

I've got no problem with the distances apart of the busway stations, I think they make sense. Bus stops are usually pretty close together, there was probably 4/5 bus stops along Old Cleveland and Logan Roads now replaced by these 2.

It looks like the old Camp Hill tram tracks and the Myer building at Coorparoo will be safe for a long time to come before the Eastern Busway expands any further.

Must look at an aerial view to see where it is going.

so now that its reached stones corner, has all construction stopped until additional funding is found to continue on to myer?

Yes.