The window has closed on many Brisbane 2032 transport options, so what will it be like getting around our city during the Games?
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Dedicated Olympic road lanes, deserted schools and workplaces, and a “ring of steel” around Brisbane, unseen since it hosted the G20 summit in 2014.
“People forget travelling that by public transport, they can write off half a day or more.Making it easier will be Cross River Rail and the Brisbane Metro rapid bus system, which will both be operational come Games time.Public transport advocate Robert Dow, from Rail Back on Track, said although 2032 was still eight years away, the ship had already sailed on the prospect of major new rail projects, which can take years to deliver.
Professor Matthew Burke: “There’s going to have to be some Queensland government office closures and some requests for the private sector not to run at full capacity.”“There will be Games lanes on a number of arterial roads and sub-arterial roads, and definitely, we will have a ring of steel in the city centre as well,” he said.“I would expect some similar things to the G20 – maybe not quite as extreme as that, but similar things to that will be happening again.
Toronto-based civil engineer Margaret Parkhill, the mobility advisory business unit leader at Arcadis, said buses would do the heavy lifting.
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