Great news for residents in Gray Road and Morry Street, with the overnight announcement from Council that the new CityGlider bus service won’t be running past their homes.
Council’s bought the house on the corner of Hoogley and Orleigh, making room for a bus turnaround after collecting passengers from the Ferry. The other option was to remove those amazing figs trees….
CityGlider will be a high frequency inner city bus loop linking West End through the CBD to Newstead. Having it run past your home will be no fun.
So spending $1.6m on a 620m2 piece of land is probably a good political investment. Was the property worth that? According to public records the current owners paid $1.45m two years ago so it sounds about right. Certainly there’s few sales of riverfront property under $2m in areas like this any more.
It might just be us but we’re excited this new inner Brisbane city bus loop is starting earlier than planned. It’s going to run a circuit through West End, South Brisbane, the CBD and into the Valley and Newstead. The big news is you won’t have to wait longer than 5-15 minutes.
The loop will run 24 hours a day on Fridays and Saturdays and BCC now says it’ll kick off in March, coinciding with the opening of the Clem 7 tunnel.
No guessing timetables, no waiting or uncertainty and one, flat fare. We’ve already been to the Translink website to sign up for a Go card (the prepaid way to jump off and on the CityGlider).
Last night, the Lord Mayor, Campbell Newman spoke to Business South Bank members at West End’s Greek Club. Have a listen to his very positive view point on the future of Brisbane and its expected population growth rates. He briefly addresses urban sprawl and the planning process currently underway for developing West End including an update on the City Glider, Hale Street (Go Between) Bridge and future City Cat stops.
I don’t catch the bus. I could use it for trips around the inner city for work meetings, but any time I’ve thought of it the timings are confusing, miss one and the next is 30 minutes later, the frequency changes regularly and the fares are all over the shop. Too hard, at least for a workday where appointment times are critical.
The Brisbane City Council has now confirmed that once they start next year the new CityGlider buses will run every 10 minutes, 18 hours a day. It’ll be every 5 minutes in peak times and 24 hours a day over the weekend.
Even I can work this one out.
Travelling from the Ferry stop at West End’s Orleigh Park it’ll run down Montague Road (making that evolving patch feel more connected), through Mollison Street behind Coles, and along South Brisbane’s Melbourne Street.
With tickets issued before you board and extra doors opening to let more people on, the stops will be fast. And we’ll pay one fare (probably $2.50) regardless of how far you travel.
Across Victoria Bridge, through the CBD and Valley, finishing at Teneriffe’s Ferry terminal. Simple, regular, long hours and linking some of our major entertainment, study and work locations. This will be a massive improvement in moving people around the inner city.
Of course the same route and service but under our streets in a Brisbane subway would be even better!
