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  1. weevil

    News Gabba Upgrade & Olympics News

    100% guarantee they will simply count shuttle buses as “public transport”. Which, in some sense, is true; it’s just fundamentally different to the transport and connectivity picture they painted all the way prior to this. And it is going to impact the space left for the park. 35% rail + 30%...
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    News Gabba Upgrade & Olympics News

    I’m a bit Occam's Razor when it comes to this stuff. The leaked docs said Arup were engaged to look at transport options for the precinct, including the possibility of a new station, but that they formally ruled it out, mostly because it would need “significantly” more land than was available...
  3. weevil

    News Gabba Upgrade & Olympics News

    All cards will be on the table during the games.
  4. weevil

    News Gabba Upgrade & Olympics News

    Those shuttle buses are going to have to stage somewhere.
  5. weevil

    News Gabba Upgrade & Olympics News

    It will be ‘fine’. But it’s thrown everything they said they were going to do completely out the window. Rather than substantially improving the surrounding transport facilities and corridors, they have just chucked in a dirty great big ugly temporary bus stop that delivers zero community...
  6. weevil

    News Gabba Upgrade & Olympics News

    45% public transport, 8% active travel, 45% shuttle buses and taxi/rideshare. Yikes, nearly half your crowd is getting there via stopgap measures is not a fantastic legacy result.
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    News Gabba Upgrade & Olympics News

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  9. weevil

    News Gabba Upgrade & Olympics News

    This is completely different to the massive emphasis they put on active travel in the planning documents. On their numbers, they expect only about 5k people to walk. It would take all night for the metro stations to clear 27.5k people. The "Two-thirds of the park will remain green space"...
  10. weevil

    News Gabba Upgrade & Olympics News

    Yeah, the legacy mode breakdowns look insane. So in a full house they reckon 15k people via the Ekka station, 18k via “shuttle buses”, 9.5k via taxi/rideshare and only 6k via the two Metro stations? That's bonkers.
  11. weevil

    News Gabba Upgrade & Olympics News

    19% of Olympic transit via a "Transport Mall", but no mention of it post games says to me they are going to have a honking big temporary bus station. It’s going to take more passengers than the Metros. That's too big for QUT, I think it will be going on the park. Herston Rd or Victoria Park Rd...
  12. weevil

    News Gabba Upgrade & Olympics News

    But if Arup says the station is not viable and Section 5 says it is, whose opinion do we go with? I’m genuinely conflicted.
  13. weevil

    News Gabba Upgrade & Olympics News

    Yeah 99% of it is "They are chopping down every tree and selling everything off to developers!!!11!!" once people see what is actually happening a lot of that hysterical nonsense is going to get completely shut down.
  14. weevil

    News Gabba Upgrade & Olympics News

    Yeah, I should have said suddenly become much more active, they are moving over to the life raft because the current ship is all but sunk. I was looking at that Neil Peach stuff again. He really needs to be publicly called out at some point. His rubbish is 100% written to seem credible to...
  15. weevil

    News Gabba Upgrade & Olympics News

    Mate, it's why "Games Watchdog" has suddenly appeared. It's just the same Save Victoria Park people, but they know they have 100% lost so they are rebranding because the old name will be dead soon as the construction starts. They are addicted to the media attention and they want to keep on...
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