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The Northern Busway is a bus-only road running north from the Brisbane central business district to the Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital in Queensland, Australia. The first section of the busway opened on 23 February 2004 with one station at QUT Kelvin Grove. In December 2005, Normanby and Herston stations opened.
The Northern Busway extension opened in stages with the Herston to Windsor section opening in August 2009, and the Windsor to Kedron section opening in June 2012.
The first section of the Northern Busway, from the intersection of Roma Street to Herston, opened on 23 February 2004 with only one station, QUT Kelvin Grove. [1] On 14 December 2005, two new stations, Normanby and Royal Children's Hospital Herston, were opened on the existing section. [2] [3]
The second section of the Northern Busway, also known as the Inner Northern Busway, officially opened on 19 May 2008. [4] [5] [6] This section connects the first section of the Northern Busway to the South East Busway with stations at King George Square and Roma Street. To make room for the Inner Northern Busway, the lower floors of King George Square carpark were removed, and one rail platform at Roma Street railway station was removed. [7] [8]
In October 2007, an alliance of Abigroup and SMEC Holdings were selected to build the 1.2 kilometre Royal Children's Hospital to Windsor section with a new station at Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital. [9] This opened on 3 August 2009. [10] [11] On 18 June 2012, the Windsor to Kedron section opened. [12] [13]
The Northern Busway starts in a tunnel underneath Albert Street in the Brisbane central business district adjacent to the Queen Street bus station, previously the terminus of the South East Busway. Many northbound services using the Northern Busway originate at the Cultural Centre busway station on the South East Busway. It then proceeds north-west to the King George Square busway station, a large interchange with several stops on each of its two underground platforms. It then surfaces near Roma Street railway station and follows the alignment of the main city train lines. Roma Street busway station is adjacent to the train platforms and is on the same level. Platform 2 is shared by both trains and buses, although the only train to currently use Platform 2 is NSW TrainLink's daily XPT service to Sydney.
The busway then continues north alongside the Exhibition railway line and then north-east through the Victoria Park Golf Complex, with stations adjacent to the Normanby Fiveways, the Queensland University of Technology campus at Kelvin Grove and the Royal Children's Hospital. The busway then turns left and on to a bridge structure alongside the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital precinct over Butterfield Street.
The three kilometre Windsor to Kedron section was built by a John Holland/Thiess consortium opening on 18 June 2012. [14] [15] [16] [17] The route rejoins Lutwyche Road after crossing Enoggera Creek. The route travels via bus lanes and local bus stops until it reaches Truro Street, where it enters into a dedicated 1.5 kilometre underground busway tunnel. After passing through Lutwyche and Kedron Brook busway stations and crossing Kedron Brook, the route rejoins Lutwyche Road at Stafford Road (southbound/inbound) and Sadlier Street (northbound/outbound). [18]
The final stage of the busway is planned to be built from Kedron to Bracken Ridge. [19] A series of draft alignments in order to identify the corridor for preservation have been released, however no final route has been selected. [20] Provisions for this extension were pre-built at the Kedron Portal of the Busway.
The Newman Government had indicated an intention to revisit the alignment for this project.[ when? ] [21] Their primary points of departure from the policy of the previous government were a preference not to build the full busway option, nor to take the busway all the way to The Prince Charles Hospital. These changes were predicated on the perceived high expense of the previously published preferred options. The Newman government's stated preference was for bus or transit lane level priority along the highly congested Gympie Road corridor. [22] In August 2024, it was announced Brisbane Metro would be extended using Northern Transitway as well as a new busway tunnel as part of a new Gympie Road bypass tunnel would be built north of Chermside and the existing Northern busway between RBWH and Kedron Brook bus stations would be used for a Metro extension on the Northside of Brisbane, completing the Northern Busway.
All services on the busway are operated by Transport for Brisbane. [23]
Roma Street railway station is a commuter and long-distance passenger train station located in the central business district of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is the junction station for the North Coast, Main, Gold Coast and NSW North Coast lines. The station is one of four inner city stations that form a core corridor through the centre of Brisbane.
The Caboolture railway line refers to the section of Queensland's North Coast Line that has a regular suburban railway service, extending north of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. The line commences at Roma Street railway station, travelling through the city and extends through Brisbane's northern suburbs to Caboolture, which the line continues north to Sunshine Coast and connects with the Ipswich line south-west of Brisbane. The line distance from Brisbane Central railway station is 49.6 km (30.8 mi).
The South East Busway is a grade separated bus-only road running south from the Brisbane central business district to Eight Mile Plains in Queensland, Australia. The busway was completed to Woolloongabba in September 2000 and to Eight Mile Plains in April 2001. An extension of the busway to School Road at Rochedale was completed in 2014 with no additional busway stations. The maximum capacity of the busway is 18,000 commuters an hour during peak periods. The busway carries an estimated 70 million passengers annually.
The Eastern Busway is a bus-only road running from the University of Queensland's St Lucia campus to Langlands Park busway station in Queensland, Australia.
Lutwyche is a northern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Lutwyche had a population of 4,610 people.
Windsor is an inner northern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Windsor had a population of 7,811 people.
Queen Street bus station is the primary bus terminus in Brisbane central business district in Queensland, Australia. It is underneath Uptown, Brisbane & Queen Street Mall. It opened on 26 March 1988 along with the Myer Centre. At the time it was the largest underground diesel bus station in the world.
King George Square busway station is located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia serving the Brisbane central business district. It is located beneath King George Square and marks the start of the Northern Busway. The station has twelve stops on two platforms; access to these platforms is via an underground concourse which can be accessed from Ann Street or Adelaide Street. Passengers wait behind automatic doors on the stop that is assigned to their bus. It opened on 19 May 2008.
Roma Street busway station is located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia serving the Brisbane central business district. It is located adjacent to Roma Street railway station and the Brisbane Transit Centre. It opened on 19 May 2008 when the Northern Busway was extended from Normanby to King George Square.
Normanby busway station is located in Brisbane, Australia serving the suburb of Kelvin Grove. It opened on 14 December 2005 on an existing section of the Inner Northern Busway. It is adjacent to Brisbane Grammar School and the Inner City Bypass.
QUT Kelvin Grove busway station is located in Brisbane, Australia adjacent to Queensland University of Technology's Kelvin Grove campus. It opened on 23 February 2004 on the first section of the Inner Northern Busway from the intersection of Roma Street to Herston.
Herston busway station is located in Brisbane, Australia serving the suburb of Herston. It opened on 14 December 2005 as RCH Herston on an existing section of the Inner Northern Busway. It was the northernmost station until the busway was extended to RBWH on 3 August 2009.
The Airport Link is a tunnelled, motorway grade, toll road in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It connects the Brisbane central business district and the Clem Jones Tunnel to the East–West Arterial Road which leads to the Brisbane Airport. It was built in conjunction with the Windsor to Kedron section of the Northern Busway in approximately the same corridor.
Gympie Road is a major road in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The road forms part of the main road route from the Brisbane Central Business District (CBD) to the northern suburbs, Sunshine Coast and east coast of Queensland.
RBWH busway station is located in Brisbane, Australia serving the suburb of Herston and Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital from which its name is an acronym of. It opened on 3 August 2009 when the Northern Busway was extended from Herston.
Since the mid-1990s, a 27 kilometre bus rapid transit network has been developed in Brisbane, Australia. It comprises grade-separated bus-only corridors, complementing the Queensland Rail Citytrain network. Management of the busway network is the responsibility of Translink as coordinator of South East Queensland's integrated public transport system.
The BaT (Bus and Train) project was a proposed north–south tunnel that would provide bus and rail modes of transportation by combining a new underground rail line and busway in a single, double-decked, 15m-wide tunnel beneath the Brisbane River and Brisbane central business district. The tunnel was to have three underground stations at Woolloongabba, George Street and Roma Street with Dutton Park upgraded.
Lutwyche busway station is located in Brisbane, Australia serving the suburb of Lutwyche. It opened on 18 June 2012 when the Northern Busway was extended from Windsor to Kedron Brook.
Kedron Brook busway station is located in Brisbane, Australia serving the suburb of Kedron. It opened on 18 June 2012 when the Northern Busway was extended from Windsor.
Brisbane Metro is a high-frequency bus rapid transit system that services the city of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. It consists of two routes that run through the Brisbane CBD every five minutes during peak times (12bph), transporting up to 1,800 passengers per hour in each direction. Metro bus commenced operating on the 169 bus route on 21 October 2024, however no date has been set for the opening of the M1 and M2 Metro services.
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