Exciting news for the North side people. I can tell you, the SE Busway near my place is very good and I love it. Now the love can be share around.
Shame it won't be completed till 2016.
$198m Northern Busway from Windsor to Aspley | The Courier-Mail
$198m Northern Busway from Windsor to Aspley
Article from: AAP
March 09, 2008 01:06pm
A FLYOVER busway is being built next to the Royal Brisbane Hospital as the first part of a $198 million dedicated bus corridor from Herston to Aspley.
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said bus lanes were the future of transport in Brisbane as she turned the first sod today.
The elevated first stage of the Northern Busway runs from the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, on the city's northern fringe, to the northern suburb of Windsor, and will eventually stretch further north to Aspley.
Ms Bligh said the project would emulate the success of the South-East Busway, a corridor that runs from the Brisbane CBD, to Eight Mile Plains in the south.
"The South-East Busway has been one of the great public transport successes of the city of Brisbane," Ms Bligh told reporters.
Busways were an important part of the infrastructure of modern Brisbane, she said.
"Dedicated busways are the future face of 21st century Brisbane," she said.
Stage one of the busway, which includes two new bus stations, will open in October 2009.
The next stage, from Windsor to Kedron, will be built by 2016.
Transport Minister John Mickel said it would be worth the wait for residents of the suburbs further north.
"These programs are ambitious but they're congestion-fighters," Mr Mickel said.
"The point is retrofitting this type of infrastructure costs a lot of money, but they will be done in accordance with the economic realities we have at the time."
By 2016, 47,000 passengers per day are expected to use the busway.