15 Sep 2010: SEQ: Cross River Rail Southern Portal location welcomed

[ozbob]

Media Release 15 September 2010

SEQ:  Cross River Rail Southern Portal location welcomed

RAIL Back On Track (http://backontrack.org) a web based community support group for rail and public transport and an advocate for public transport commuters has welcomed today's announcement by the Minister for Transport of the preferred location for the Cross River Rail southern portal at Yeerongpilly (1).

Robert Dow, Spokesman for RAIL Back On Track said:

"The preferred portal location is innovative and means resumptions will now be minimal.  Locating the southern portal at Yeerongpilly is a win, win, win. It means that modifications to the surface rail corridor from Yeerongpilly will now no longer be required.  It further provides real mass transit options for the Transit Oriented Developments planned for the Tennyson/Yeerongpilly precinct, as well as servicing the Tennis Centre."

"Locating at Yeerongpilly means that access to Cross River Rail from the western line via the Tennyson loop line will be achieved.  For example football specials from Rosewood/Ipswich, Richlands/Springfield will be able to run direct to Woolloongabba.  Travel time from Yeerongpilly to Albert St Station in the Brisbane CBD will be in the order of 10 minutes.  This highlights the superb utility of the project."

"High capacity sustainable mass transit will be a reality through Brisbane City with this underground heavy rail network extension.  The flow on effects of this underground extension to the rest of the Queensland Rail suburban and interurban network will also be significant.  New train paths and increases in frequency and capacity will be possible on all lines."

"Cross River Rail is an urgently needed project to move past looming inner Brisbane rail congestion. We welcome today's announcement and congratulate the project team on the success of community consultations."

Reference:

1.  Queensland Parliament  Minister for Transport Hon Rachel Nolan MP 15th September 2010

Contact:

Robert Dow
Administration
admin@backontrack.org

[#Metro]

WOW! STOP PRESS!!!

[#Metro]

"Locating at Yeerongpilly means that access to Cross River Rail from the western line via the Tennyson loop line will be achieved.  For example football specials from Rosewood/Ipswich, Richlands/Springfield will be able to run direct to Woolloongabba for example.  Travel time from Yeerongpilly to Albert St Station in the Brisbane CBD will be in the order of 10 minutes.  This highlights the superb utility of the project."

A light bulb really switched on in this plan! Amazing!
Now, will there be a bus-bay or bus-rail interchange at Yeerongpilly to take advantage of this blistering speed?

just 10 minutes...

[#Metro]

Maybe there really will be regular services through Tennyson now!

[ozbob]

CRR discussion thread --> http://railbotforum.org/mbs/index.php?topic=2034.msg34040#msg34040

[ozbob]

Maybe there really will be regular services through Tennyson now!

Real possibility ...