Mine was 1hr and 30 min of standing from Boggo Road to Helensvale in peak hour. Full standing load train. A truck got into an incident with one of the Warrigal/Bonemill/Nathan Rd crossings. Train was held at Moorooka for god knows how long. But THANKFULLY, I made it out in the end. My calves and glutes were so sore (but the air-con helped relieve my pain though) 😭😭
I am a visitor from Germany and wanted to politely note that your main station is very dirty and dated.
Only 2 dining options were available in the transfer hall facility.
In the end we ordered the fish.
"Concerns Springfield Central Station could be another Bremer River Bridge in the making have come to light this week, with Queensland Rail confirming it is continuing with structural investigations following the closure of a staircase that has remained cordoned off for more than 12 months." - Ipswich Tribune, 2026.
It also wasn't too long ago when the escalators at Springfield Central were inoperational for WEEKS, before Ipswich residents and the wider community finally pressured the QR bureaucracy to fix them. Like, damn.
Its just a shame that basic infrastructure like structurally-unsound staircases haven't been amended for more than 12 months now. What are your thoughts? Is this QR being negligent by cost-cutting on station maintenance or are deeper underlying forces at play?
The South-East Queensland Transport Association put out a media release this morning calling for focus on Brisbane City.
Whilst I don't usually, i'm reposting the full Media Release to this subreddit to ask the public what you recon a major transit upgrade would look like in Brisbane for railways 👀
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The South East Queensland Transport Association welcomes the major changes proposed for the Gold Coast bus network but says Brisbane passengers deserve the same level of ambition.
The recently announced Gold Coast network changes include new and restructured routes, more frequent services, stronger connections with L1 and heavy rail stations, and new links across the southern Gold Coast.
SEQTA welcomes these improvements. The Gold Coast has had inadequate investment for too long.
Bus networks across South East Queensland have been expected to keep up with rapidly growing communities without the service improvements needed to match. This lack of investment leads to congestion and a generally poorer experience for all residents.
But we should not, and cannot, afford to let that ambition stop there.
Every day without a clear infrastructure plan for Brisbane 2032 is a day of delivery time we cannot get back.
To put it simply, Brisbane’s public transport network is not yet ready for the demands of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to shape how Greater Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast move for decades to come.
We just need the courage to act and we need to do it now.
We are calling on the Crisafulli and Albanese Governments to immediately come together, cut the politics and establish a transparent and clear timeline for the delivery of rapid-transit extensions or corridors to:
Additionally, we need a rapid bus network outside the existing busways that is fit for 2026 and beyond.
We need:
“The clock is counting down until 2032 and unless we continue this momentum, we will be unprepared,” Rylie Mason, General Manager @ SEQTA, said in an internal meeting this morning.
“The Gold Coast deserves better buses. Brisbane does too” added Imogen Buckley, Founder @ SEQTA.
2032 cannot simply be a deadline. It must be the catalyst for the transport network South East Queensland should already have.
Perhaps out of sheer boredom, I wanted to create a version of the Translink map that shows roughly what the map may look like in 2032.
Really shows the investment into our network, whether that's railway to the Sunny Coast, Cross River Rail or the GC Surfer - a "Metro-style service" that comes every 15 minutes on a weekday... 😭
Feel free to give feedback, opinions or point out service gaps that the Government should invest in ❤️
Note that this is largely speculation only.
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And if you like concepts and railway discussion, feel free to join the r/BrisbaneTrains discord server https://discord.gg/JpgnrTQZpE (must be over 13 years old)
As always, there is plenty of debate about the roles of LRT and BRT in Brisbane (and now the Sunshine and Gold Coast too).
But now with the M1 (Brisbane Metro) having a reasonably similar capacity to the L1 (G:Link), even if we ignore every other frequent bus that uses the busway, when is it a good idea to opt for the massively increased expense for LRT over BRT?
For the sake of this debate, I’m assuming BRT to be a median busway (not something as high-quality as the SEB) down a main arterial road with signal priority, and LRT to be a G:Link-style system.
... at least, the web map is out!
https://translink.widen.net/view/pdf/pixnldfmiy/260809-seq-network-map.pdf
This is a good thing, and it's good that it's happening now.
Simple ESP32 chip and e-ink display. Shows the next few city bound trains at my local stations.
Surely this won't mean key heavy rail projects like the Beaudesert Line and the NWTC corridor from Alderley to Strathpine get delayed past 2040 just because we had billions in cost-blowouts from hosting the Olympics😭
Will we still be able to fulfill the SEQ Frequent Public Transport Network 2041 plan by the 2040s? ie. high frequency bus routes from Chermside to Strathpine via Albany Creek or one from Yarrabilba feeding into a Marsden bus hub, which has frequent cross-town bus links to Browns Plains and Logan Hyperdome, to name a few..
I was looking at the Wynnum Centre Suburban Renewal Precinct and it looks great and all but I don't know how you can develop a high density region there with all the level crossings and don't get me started on the bridge that basically every truck driver hits every second week
I can only think of them elevating the stations (Wynuum North, Wynuum, Wynuum Central) but I don't know how they would go about doing it
Just a teaser for now, but today we played a 1v1 home game on a brand new light rail line here on Australia's Gold Coast. We have a couple of other seasons up on the channel if you haven't encountered us before. This special will be live whenever I finish editing it and I have no idea when that'll be. Hope you all like the idea!
Huzzah for the L1 extension
Hi Guys,
We are due a trip abroad for 6 weeks in November-early December. We had decided to take a train from Gympie to Bris and then the air train from Bris to airport and the reverse on return. Lately I see so many complaints of the rail being close etc. Should we be relying on this public network system or should we just drive and purchase airport parking? I'm seriously concerned when we arrive home- we won't actually be able to get home. When they do close the rail== do they 100% supply buses in lieu of, even to Gympie? Thanks for your time.
New GCLR stage, new Roma St platform 1… exciting next few days ahead.
Wouldn’t a second platform be useful to make especially during the works for the upgrade on the original platform. Wouldn’t it make it easier down the line when they duplicate Sandgate to shorncliffe which they would definitely have to do at some point.
