I think there's MANY other problems the Gold Coast has at the same time, the way it is expanding doesn't help with traffic, sprawling suburbs along the M1 increasing traffic further instead of building upwards more often. It was really doomed from the start. The only problem I have with trains is that it brings gronks and eshays, where I live in Pimpama crime isn't as bad as places like Helensvale, Beenleigh etc. and the things they have in common are the train stations. I'd say many people don't use PT for this reason, rather sit in traffic in a car by themselves than being harassed by a dropkick 15 year old after a long day at work. They not only should focus on rail infrastructure itself, they should also look into having better security/police presence to make it more appealing to the average person, I could imagine females and the elderly have had a bad experience on a train that paints PT in a bay way to them resulting in them driving instead. Also not just for GC but worldwide, people that work in jobs where you could technically work from home should be encouraged to do so by their employers, that'd reduce traffic and the need to go anywhere significantly and we basically seen it with our own eyes during lockdown/restrictions, seems ridiculous that companies deem it mandatory to commute to the office to do the exact same thing you could do in the comfort of your own home.

This was really well made, nice work (and great content too)

mate i reckon you could send this video to your transport minister, opposition leader, state premier, your local state and fed MP.

Great video and excellent animations. We need more QLD urban planning content

Really nice work! It's funny hey, don't buy avocado on toast so you could afford a mortgage but the cost of a car impacting your ability to buy a house due to the lack of other transport options - just part of life. Drove to the southern gold coast for school holidays. Honestly once your there it's nice not to have to use your car to go to the beach and shops with little kids, if you could just take a train that got there would be great and a train should be able to go at a higher speed way more safely. The Dutch recently held a grand prix in a small town, over 100,000 people per day went to watch the race and they got there by train, bicycle and walking or bus primarily, also parking a car and riding from some locations. It's amazing. Whereas Brisbane had a Sunday market with 7000 people attending and they had to shut it down due to causing too much congestion on roads because the only way to get there is to drive a car, hmmm. It's nice to have more freedom to choose how to get around safely.

Well said

This guy needs to be in charge

Highways have their pros most certainly. In the situation of Brisbane to Gold Coast…? Provide alternatives that arent car focused because the inner city public transport network in both cities already exist. HSR would substantially benefit SE QLD. Furthermore the network could expand further north or even west!

Well done. But it's not just your generation. I've been advocating for rail in many forms, interstate, intercity, intracity, for decades. And not only for moving people. How many 1000's of huge semi-trailers are travelling on our roads everyday, destroying said roads with their weight and creating safety issues for any smaller vehicles.

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Make it a two lane each way road and then the third lane can be a dedicated metro line. 150 passengers per bus brings some of the benefits of mass transit without the massive cost of rail.

wait til you find out GCCC and QLD Gov just approved housing to be built on flood plains!

Could you look into the failed Springfield extension or the Beaudesert connection that was sabotaged?

Reason why your generation is questioning why we are building more car roads- policies are made and the loudest are the baby boomers, who got used to car dependency

The upcoming Gold Coast Faster Rail project is estimated to cost 6 billion, the price of two Coomera Connectors. If the stooges in parliament actually used their brains instead of wasting taxpayer funds on their pet projects, we couldve already had it by now!

Well put. When Qld decided it was too good to bother with reviewing its laws, and all that rigging went on...they tore up the existing trams ,,, there are still rails in coorparoo ...thing is...it was money then and it is money now...fact is our taxes paid a company to built stuff, with needlessly borrowed money...gifted land, tax exemptions and insurances...like the gateway and inner city melbourne..and a lot of things wewre different and better before you were born ...at one point Aud was 1.20 us and stable...in the 60s-70s it got to 1.58/60 i think...petrol...was 35c a litre for my parents...intewrest was like 17.7 percent opeople paid 27 000 for a new houser and land whic h was working man 5-10 yeares put it all back in...but it was the 80s...everyone was in ther army reserve and having bbqs...don't believe the hippie reinvention of it...hippies got bashed here and rightly so...throw blood on jim will they? anyhow... good expose...and with it...?I concur.

For accuracy, can you tweak the Blender animations? Mostly so the cars are spaced out to 3-second distances. Of course for full accuracy you’d also want to reduce the lane count to something typical, extending the queue, and adding a percentage for irregular movement. Then for fairness, if a train is 3 minutes behind the last one (a globally standard of excellence), you’d show how far back that is. I’d love that final comparison most of all actually! All you’d need in both cases is their optimal speed - easy enough to find the speed limits on both forms of transport.

A highspeed train straight from Brisbane to Surfers Paradise would of likely cost the same, and brought substantially more benefits. It sucks our governments cannot see past their car obsessions.

I wonder what inspired Saudi Arabia to suddenly start building transit?? Or Dubai

Tell Japan this badly

Sacrifice road money and build maglev HSR transrapid and abandon the long distance intercity trains. Restructure country services to become regional rail services linking the HSR corridor to rural areas

good stuff! your video that is. not the highway.

Induced demand ya flamin' galahs

WOW. Seeing this quality made me think i was on a channel with way more subs, incredible stuff. Twice i year i travel up to my grandparents up on mount tambo. Last time i was up, i thought to myself "can i get down to the coast car free?". Worst mistake of my life. The shuttle "bus" if you can call it that was cramped and only comes around five times a day. Not only that, but you have to RING the operators of the bus to reserve your seat the day before, and it's exempt from the 50c fares, so it cost a fortune. As a result, not many people use it, and it shows with carparks at busy areas never being free and events running out of parking horribly quickly. The Gold Coast deserves better than this.

Slowly but surely the situation is improving, the Coomera road needs to be built now because of decisions made 30 years ago when we were not so enlightened, not building the road now is a travesty to the people who live there now and have no alternative to get around, that alternative should have been built before they were allowed to move into the area, Existing roads cannot continue to cope with the current population living in the area so new ones need to be built, train lines need to be upgraded, tram lines need to be added and all needs to be done asap

Got away from the coast a couple of years ago and glad of it.

The rail system in Australia is under utilised. If trains were used to take trucks off the Bruce highway it would be safer. Jobs for truck drivers will go from long haul to short haul to deliver good from the train stations to homes and businesses.

Your graphic about most dangerous mode of transport actually shows Motorcycles as being the most dangerous. Granted if you take numbers of cars vs motorcycles then the cars will take first spot, but that graphic is still misleading.

You seem to think we want to catch public transport. We don’t.

There is thing my generation calls a referdex to find locations, interesting how 30 years ago this "proposed duplication" was displayed back then, good to see it's going ahead, train is fun and relaxing but difficult and expensive for first and last mile - getting to the station and back

Coomera is a "canal estate" for rich people. They don't need a train service. They already have 3 cars.

HOLY CRAP IS THAT FOR THOSE WHO ROCK IN THE START!?!?!?!??! (i played better)

$3 billion could've bought a hell of a lot of buses to boost services and a possible LR extension to Harbour Town, and possibly the train line to Elanora at least. I compiled a list of all 60 bus routes the GC has, and found that 63% of them run hourly and finish before 7pm - and in some cases they run every 2hr or not at all on weekends. The coomera connector will only create induced demand.

genuinely terrible idea especially considering the absolute state of public transport in the gold coast, its already a suburban nightmare

WEll said, and great work on the animations 👍👍

wow, I was absolutely blow away by this video! The sheer amount of production value in this makes it feel like something a 100k+ youtuber would post, but you somehow have less than 1k. And the animations, WOW. If you keep semi regularly (once ever 2 weeks or so) uploading content this good I can GARENTEE you will blow up pretty soon :D

Queensland's Infrastructure is about as good as a toddler playing Cities Skylines

Hey, I'm old and even I can see the "more roads, more cars" mating call is obsolete.

Amazing video..

I've been a lifelong rail freak....YES, SEQ needs MORE Rail, but there are serious weaknesses to some of the concepts presented here. Two obvious 1) Tradies/logistics can not use public transit. 2) The road commute between BNE/GC is just part of the mix, it's what people do with their cars, when they reach those destinations....again, public transit suffers serious limitations after people have moved along the primary corridor and enter the "personal commute" element of their journey! YES, SEQ should embrace a "TransApex of Rail" BNE to - GC - SunshineC - Toowoomba, but road will always be a big part of the mix!

The only good thing about it is that they're building a shared path

If I catch public transport from my home to work, it take 3 times as long than vs car. Reality is we live in a society built post the creation of modern mass transportation. The tram allowed urban sprawl, and this was taken to the next level after the car arrived. And now trams and trains can supply the type of transport we need with out a full redesign of the system. Last mile access needs to be improved, with express buses between hubs It would take a massive commitment to implement such an undertaking.

It's disappointing that more koala habitat will be wiped out for this. Great video and good points. I loved the animation too.

Well said! Catching the train down to Uni and having to watch that 6 lane monstrosity be built next to it is depressing. Would be cool if you made a video on the light rail to GC airport and all the stupid arguments people in palm Beach make to try and block it.

The Government has just realised that $0.50c public transport works, it takes cars off the road. It should be free and subsidised. Find a away to get people out of their cars. But still, a great start. I agree with you on the destruction of green spaces. Our future generations will not look favourably on what we did. Great video, keep it up.

Wow you're completely insane 😂 meanwhile us employed functional members of society will drive to work or for work. Pull your head out you're arse, get out and see the real damage

Heavy rail not only needs to be expanded to Gold Coast (and Sunshine Coast) Airport,but also directly to Surfers Paradise and Southport. The ability is there but the drive isn’t. Likewise, Brisbane needs a proper under ground metro system. Now they have the skilled people there from the construction of Cross River Rail, keep them there. Instead they’re going to build another bloody road tunnel 🤦🏻‍♂️

Your reading the wrong report 😂😂😂😂 you need the 2036 one that deemed Gold Coast wasn’t getting a cargo port so connection to the port of Brisbane was needed . The commera connection is only the first 3 stages after that they are continuing to the port of Brisbane via mt cotton rd and a tunnel under the reservoir

Brother read the 2036 master plan please 😂 there is 250 thousand people going to live in the norwell valley area and Gold Coast isn’t getting a port anymore so all their cargo freight needs a road that’s why the Co connector ends at the port of Brisbane once completed

Brother read the 2036 master plan please 😂 there is 250 thousand people going to live in the norwell valley area and Gold Coast isn’t getting a port anymore so all their cargo freight needs a road that’s why the Co connector ends at the port of Brisbane once completed