u/Remarkable_Catch_953

StationLink (route 19) takes up a lot of daily services (running as frequently as a BUZ for most of the day) and, well, is hardly used by anyone.

Now it makes sense that it continues to run until Moorooka Station has finished its rebuild... but does anyone know what will happen to it after then?

My hope would be that its services could be redistributed among the nearby services, that in ways act as "station links".

For instance the...

• 102 (Inala to Oxley station),
• 468 (Oxley station to Indooroopilly station),
• 104 (Corinda station to Yeerongpilly/Boggo Rd stations),
• 105 (Indooroopilly station to Yeerongpilly/Boggo Rd stations),
• 112 (Griffith station to Boggo Rd station),
• and 113 (Holland Park West station to Boggo Rd station),

... could all really benefit from increased frequencies. These would combine nicely with the existing increased frequencies to the 177 (Carindale to Griffith station) and 182 (Garden City station to Holland Park West station), to potentially form a bit of a "station link" network on the southside?

Feel free to roast me lol.

Some explanations:

• Woolloongabba, UQ Lakes, and Roma St are designed to be the main termini - with 4 chargers each (or 6 in the case of Roma St), they should be able to handle each route travelling at 3 minute frequencies
• Mt Ommaney to Mt Coot-tha follows the Western Freeway
• Darra, Beenleigh, Carseldine, Windsor, and Cleveland are located at their respective train stations
• The UQ Lakes to Toowong alignment involved crossing across the river at Guyatt Park - Orleigh Park, and then from Orleigh Park - Toowong Village
• Naming conventions:
  • M1 (111, extended to Springwood)
  • M2 (222, extended to Cleveland)
  • M3 (333, extended to Carseldine)
  • M4 (Western suburbs use the 4xx convention)
  • M5 (Logan uses the 5xx convention)
  • M6 (66)
  • M7 (Gold Coast uses the 7xx convention, and Beenleigh was not only temporarily part of the Gold Coast, but also connects with the Gold Coast line)

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Recently, Infrastructure Australia shortlisted the Brisbane Metro as one of its few high priority projects for QLD. Hopefully this means that we might see a bit more action politically.

The Lord Mayor acknowledged this on his social media, but an interesting part of his posts jumped out to me. He mentioned that they were keen to expand the metro to: Capalaba, Springwood, the airport, and Chermside.

Perhaps this was a typo (as all council websites still reference Carseldine), but I found it interesting that they didn't mention Carseldine in this case? If it wasn't a typo, I wondered if this indicated that they were progressing on an M2 extension already and had started firming on Chermside as being the terminus?

I spotted #9057 being tested today - not far away from the full order being complete!

Perhaps a new timetable and increased frequencies soon?

On a slightly unrelated note, who else feels that turning the 169 into a new metro route would be a good idea?