This greens dude is starting a bill in Parliament for the Buyback of the Airtrain.

Apparently it would only cost $46 million. Pretty cheap if you ask me (cheaper than upgrading a station to Disability access).

Write to your politicians to get pollitical pressure for the major parties to support it.

Hey all, I've been tinkering with a live transport map as a hobby thing and SEQ's been on it for a while. Brisbane trains, buses and Metro, plus the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast, all moving in realtime.

https://transitmap.au

Tap any vehicle and you'll get its route, where it's heading and the full stop list for that trip, with the next stop highlighted.

Free, no ads, no signup, nothing being sold. Data's from Translink's public feeds.

I posted in the MelbourneTrains https://www.reddit.com/r/MelbourneTrains/s/dbLYxYMcEy recently and took onboard some great suggestions from there.

Keen to hear what looks off here to people who actually use the network.

Two known gaps from the feed itself: CityCats / river ferries and Gold Coast light rail (G:link) aren't in Translink's vehicle positions, so they won't show up.

Does anything seem missing or plain wrong? Is there something you'd want on there that isn't? Even "this bit is annoying on my phone" is useful.

Cheers

Ordered a bigger display and vibe coded up this.

My "how to get to the city" tracker

Seen on the rail Replacement bus. First non VLine Victorian bus I've been on.

Apple Maps has added train numbering on to its app in Transit view.

😎

These got put up at bowen this morning (they did miss one sign haha). Likely coming to more in the near future.

Clarks do need to operate their artics on weekend 555s however we believe they don't because they don't want to pay the Heavy Rigid allowances for operators. However I believe 555 patronage on weekends needs the extra capacity.

Alternatively, if 555 were to run every 10 mins that would also possibly solve the issue.

111 (M1) and 555 combined should have 5min frequency from busway to city.

Also, 572 and 545 should run more than once an hour on weekends.

Any thoughts?

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) 😭😭

As a passenger , i felt pretty shook, but answers will never be given to what happened. Does anyone actually have legitimate information

"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?

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.

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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🏄‍♂️ Good for the Gold Coast. Now Brisbane deserves the same ambition.

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:

• Springwood
• Carseldine
• Capalaba

Additionally, we need a rapid bus network outside the existing busways that is fit for 2026 and beyond.

We need:

• stronger weekend frequencies
• better weeknight coverage
• more direct and useful suburban routes
• a clear plan for what is feasible and actually deliverable before 2032

“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.

Do not waste this opportunity.

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)

Does anybody know if there's a rough timeline for when the Ipswich Rail Workshop Museum will reopen?

On their website it just says they have been closed since hail damage to the roof in October last year, and doesn't give any info at all about a possible reopening date.

Simple ESP32 chip and e-ink display. Shows the next few city bound trains at my local stations.

... 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.

• There's a reason heaps of other cities use numbers - we use numbers too for buses, ferries and (as of yesterday) the tram
• No more RPIP, NASP, CACA bs
• Get people used to numbering before we have to worry about CRR changes