Push for even more public transport routes across Brisbane in lead up to the 2032 Olympic

ABC NEWS (Australia)

From next month, Brisbane bus services will be boosted to provide an additional 30 million trips a year. And there's a push to connect the system to other parts of southeast Queensland in the lead-up to the 2032 games.

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00:00Getting to work on time in Brisbane could be a whole lot easier from the 30th of June.

00:07It will be the biggest change that we have seen to Brisbane's bus network in decades.

00:12The new Metro route will begin operating from 8 Mile Plains to Roma Street

00:17and 60 more buses will be on the road across the city at a combined cost of $1.55 billion.

00:24The expanded system will see an additional 160,000 new bus services, but already there's a push for more.

00:32We need more Metro. We need the Metro to go to other places like the Wave on the Sunshine Coast.

00:37The deadline, the 2032 Olympics.

00:40And we will now work with the Brisbane City Council over the next few years to work out the connection plan,

00:45the connectivity between cities, the fast rail to the Gold Coast, the Wave to the Sunshine Coast.

00:50With the Gold and Sunshine Coasts earmarked for games events,

00:54a coordinated South East Queensland transport network could move thousands of extra tourists around the region.

01:00Some locals are already on board.

01:03Infrastructure right now is very in demand.

01:06With the migration here in Australia, I think that would be beneficial for everyone.

01:11I hate driving in traffic, so yeah, I definitely would.

01:14Within 50 cents, definitely something that we all look forward to.

01:18And it's that lure of cheap fares which is fueling the expected success.

01:22Because of 50 cent fares, we expect that we'll be one of the first cities in the country,

01:28one of the first cities in the world to have public transport patronage now exceed its pre-COVID levels.

01:34We're getting close to 11.

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