Riverside Busway

[SMU260]

I believe a busway would be a great addition to the eastern Brisbane area. The suburbs are served by the Cleveland line, however there are suburbs not served by the Queensland Rail Citytrain network. I propose a busway that branches off at Woolloongabba busway station and stops at Norman Park, Hawthorne, Morningside, Cannon Central shopping centre, Murrarie river shore (The parkland under the gateway bridge), Hemmant, Lindum, and finally Wynnum. Hawthorne does not currently have a train station, and Cannon Central and Murrarie river shore are quite a distance away from their respective suburb's train stations. I understand that a project like this would be expensive and take years to build, however I believe the patronage numbers and usefulness to the public will speak for itself.

[Gazza]

What about feeder buses from those stations?

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Ive sketched your busway based on the station locations you provided.
I think it would duplicate the cleveland line a bit too much and im not sure a Kmart shopping center and a riverside park would warrant a tunneled  busway.

My hypothetical take is that if you want to improve service to the east, you could do a rinky dink 5km long little driverless metro at least initially with stations at Bulimba, Newstead, New Farm, Kangaroo Point (?) and Albert St.

In the future this might branch and extend to Hamilton and Skygate, with a 2nd eventual branch to Cannon Hill, Carina and Carindale..

[verbatim9]

It will be interesting to see what the plans are for the new Woolloongabba busway station, mainly in terms of access from the East. Hopefully, they will include bus only access tunnels under Stanley Street and another access tunnel coming from Logan Road.

[300LA]

I've always found the locations for some of these train stations perplexing. Imagine Murarrie station relocated toward Creek Rd / Cannon Hill Plaza. And Cannon Hill Station toward Wynnum / Junction Rds, both with properly integrated bus interchanges and pedestrian access to local shops etc.

The bus network could be more efficiently designed and there's be no need for a new Busway tunnel to duplicate the rail alignment

[RowBro]

The alignment for the Cleveland line is p%ss poor for modern standards. A lot of the time there are seemingly unnecessary S bends when they could just realign the track to go straight. I would imagine it's because it's going through Wetlands but so does the Airport extension. It could very easily be elevated on a more direct path through the wetlands IMO. If only the Government spent the same amount of money improving rail as they do improving highways!