Only seems to be early plans for a few hiking tracks

Yes travelling south

Thank you very much!

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I thought it was that, but according to the video fly through on TMR website it's Penny road www.tmr.qld.gov.au/projects/bruce-highway-cooroy-to-curra/bruce-highway-cooroy-to-curra-section-d

@ that was an early flyover before they realised the implications of realignment of local roads

There's room in areas with the line marking but you're right, however labour spent all the money and tied up more with the Olympics, they can't even afford to do the western belt from m1 to Ipswich mwy the D Lockyer way or fix Bremer bridge or the intersection at yamanto. And this next mob will spend more on revenue capturing devices and orificors.

Tairo is next, then possibly Childers, they’ve done some duplication work on the Maryborough Bypass and more could be done there. Rockhampton has its bypass underway now. Townsville bypass is now duplicated from Bluewater all the way through to almost Alligator Creek.

Tiaro for sure

Southbound. What do you mean by AI? It's completed

it says south bound

Expected Construction Completion is DEC 2024. But probably won't be

@@Adventureexplorersmedia looking at your footage there is sh!tload still to do, I think around June 2025

I will keep updating videos of the progress

www.tmr.qld.gov.au/projects/gold-coast-heavy-rail-extension-varsity-lakes-to-gold-coast-airport

They say "continuing to protect and plan for the Gold Coast heavy rail corridor between Varsity Lakes and Gold Coast Airport."

Thankyou! That's the plan!

@@colinmay151 there's already a plan to extend heavy rail to gold coast airport, and unfortunately the terrain is probably not conducive to sending a metro underneath surfers paradise - at least light rail doesn't get stuck in traffic.

@@Lumiobyte To be clear,,, there is NO PLAN for Heavy Rail south of Varsity ,,, only an aspirational political interest / fantasy thought now pushed a further 20 years back from a project that in 2003 was planned to be completed by 2015. Light rail causes traffic disproportionally to the poor value it delivers for its high cost.

@@colinmay151 Light rail is significantly more efficient than buses. Light rail vehicles have capacity for 300 passengers, 80 of them seated, whereas a bus can carry about 60 total. Light rail comes at the same or better frequencies as the buses it replaced and there are measurable economic benefits to progressively pedestrianising the entire corridor along the beach - increased foot traffic, which light rail helps deliver, is only ever a good thing for businesses

@@colinmay151 and also the land for the heavy rail extension is preserved and it's a recurring point in future Queensland transport plan documentation. Unfortunately we don't have enough money to build everything at once, especially with the Sunshine Coast extension currently kicking off, but I can see it being announced towards 2030. It's also a lot more difficult to justify that extension economically, as the area around the new stations is still very low density compared to surfers/broadbeach and ridership will be low until there are planning reforms or transit oriented development around the stations.

@@Lumiobyte It has always been preserved since 2003 ,,,,, Go read the 20 year old reports still on TMR site. Plan to build,,, Do you have a basis for this belief?? I have sat in an office with Mark Bailey, Karen Andew's, TMR GC Office team, Steve Minnikin and Bart Mellish.... NONE can put any estimate on timeline to finish GC RAIL.

Because it's in the gold coast airport zone that you can't fly in unless you unlock it by getting permission

Pls share your evidence ?? Any details ?

@@colinmay151 just scuttlebutt from site... It's probably not double, some of it was due to chemical found. Other to alignment changes for adding room for rail.

@@AnarchyEnsues The rail corridor has been reserved since 2003 and is hosted in a report on the TMR site. I will share one piece of waste for you,, that being the costly curve designed into the service Rd bridge was to retain the derelict once graffitied tin shed near the sewer plant on Talle creek because no one in GCCC wanted to relocate it due to its disabled community use. For all the work and 3 bridges the M1 is still HALF the cost per KM of light rail stage 3 ,,, Go figure.. Cheers

I should say from at LEAST 2003 when it was referred in the report

So you are saying ZERO immigration and economic growth ?

@@colinmay151 no, absolutely not. I'm saying that building more lanes causes more people to use the road, so the traffic is never solved. We should be aiming to build a public transport alternative that alleviates enough demand to make the current road sufficient

@@Lumiobyte There is of course no evidence to support your claim. Population and Demand drives USE. Go look at the M1 at 6am and you will see less than 1% of travel being undertaken could be achieved via public transport. Travel that is the economic engine room combining multiple destinations and loads that CANT and WILL NEVER be achieved via a public transport mode

@@colinmay151 there is plenty of evidence to support the idea of induced demand. It's a very well understood topic that urban planners have understood since the 60s and yet we as a country have continually leaned further and further into car dependence until we've reached this point where the problem of road congestion is impossible to fix. There are plenty of academic papers and studies that have proven this idea. And yes, you're right in that a very low proportion of travel is on PT - but that should drive us to invest in PT! For e.g. a trip from Helensvale to Roma St on the train only takes about 20 minutes longer than by car (50min vs 1h9min) when the highway is free-flowing during off peak periods. You can imagine that during the morning gridlock, the train will actually become the option that takes less time, and also you can spend the time reading, working on your laptop, relaxing etc instead of bashing your steering wheel while moving at 5km/h. The reason that PT mode share is low despite this clear benefit is because of how difficult it is to access - someone who lives in Pacific Pines needs to add a minimum of 25 minutes onto their journey on the bus to reach Helensvale station, not to mention that the bus they'll be taking only shows up every HOUR. To ride a bike is dangerous due to a lack of protected bike lanes, and to walk would take over an hour. The issue here is lack of alternatives - cars don't have to be the way, we have simply chosen that path. And beginning to shift our focus away from road upgrades and towards providing alternatives to road use instead is the way we bring about a great benefit to society in all ways - less carbon emissions, more exercise and physical activity, more social interaction, more time to relax and less stress, and more freedom of movement for our kids so they don't need to be driven by parents, etc etc...

​@@colinmay151it's the truth you ignorant fool, he is right

Still crazy seeing people say "the tram makes more traffic"

With such wisdom you must certainly be a Uni lecturer on Town Planning??

@@jaxtar923 Makes more traffic JAM not more traffic. Due to the cheap raod hating design ,, typical TMR

@colinmay151 as someone who has actually undertaken transport study, you don't know what your talking about. I think the people who literally do this for a living have a better grasp then you.

@@jaxtar923 Oh how people so keenly disregard an opposing view citing lack of expertise in the face of a rational justified observation. So sad and simplistic

Thankyou!

Hopefully the next one will be a finished end result as it's supposed to be done at the end of the year

Working on it this week! Keep any eye out for it

Thanks 😊