Thread: Not enough train drivers for the qld system.

A previous Premier cut 1400 jobs from the public sector.

A hundred plus years in the planning and this ? Were the powers that be responsible for the new Sandgate road to Redcliffe bus service responsible. The train line should have been linked to Sandgate station to form a loop so as to make commuting from the peninsula easier by train than single occupant car .

No doubt the cost of that route would have been prohibitive. Established properties would need to be resumed and a two kilometre bridge constructed.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

A previous Premier cut 1400 jobs from the public sector.

Think that is closer to 14,000.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

No doubt the cost of that route would have been prohibitive. Established properties would need to be resumed and a two kilometre bridge constructed.

The bridge was built , The ?TEDx Smout. Strengthened to take a rail line would be that much I hope. Run a single line with passing points along the existing roadways? Foreword thinking isn't cheap but retroactive responses aren't either

The existing bridge can barely cope with the weight and volume of the traffic now, it couldn't carry a train.

So obsolete from the beginning ? Many years back in a discussion with a local politician the idea of a rail , heavy or light , was dismissed as the local electorate preferred to travel singly by car. My vote was to leave the area and find something on an existing line. Others can make the peninsula a go.

The concrete was barely set on the bridge when the southern pylons had to be underpinned. I'm pretty sure that wasn't done with enough strength to carry a train.