Casino
New South Wales
Coordinates28°52′0″S153°03′0″E / 28.86667°S 153.05000°ECoordinates: 28°52′0″S153°03′0″E / 28.86667°S 153.05000°E
Population9,982 (2016 census)[1]
Postcode(s)2470
Elevation26 m (85 ft)[2]
Location
  • 716 km (445 mi) from Sydney
  • 189 km (117 mi) from Brisbane
  • 30 km (19 mi) from Lismore
LGA(s)Richmond Valley Council
State electorate(s)Clarence
Federal Division(s)Page
Mean max tempMean min tempAnnual rainfall
26.8 °C
80 °F
13.1 °C
56 °F
1,097.5 mm
43.2 in
Barker St., Casino

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Casino is a town in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales, Australia, with a population of 10,914 people at the 2016 census.[1] It lies on the banks of the Richmond River and is situated at the junction of the Bruxner Highway and the Summerland Way.

It is located 726 km (451 mi) north of Sydney and 228 km (142 mi) south of Brisbane.

Overview[edit]

Casino is the seat of the Richmond Valley Council, a local government area.

British occupation of the area began in 1840 when pastoral squatters George Robert Stapleton and his business partner, Mr. Clay, set up a sheep station which they called Cassino after Cassino (near Monte Cassino) in Italy.[3][4][5] The town now has a sister city agreement with the Italian village.[6][7]

Casino is among Australia's largest beef centres. It is the regional hub of a very large cattle industry and positions itself as the 'Beef Capital' of Australia,[8][9] although the city of Rockhampton also claims this title. In addition it is the service centre for a rich agricultural area.

Each year the town celebrates Beef Week. It was not held in 2007 but since that year, has continued to be held and celebrated with the 2019 one being held from 18 to 28 May.[10]

Population[edit]

According to the 2016 census of Population, there were 10,914 people in Casino.

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 10.5% of the population.
  • 86.8% of people were born in Australia. The next most common country of birth was England at 1.2%.
  • 90.9% of people spoke only English at home.
  • The most common responses for religion were Catholic 25.2%, Anglican 22.8% and No Religion 22.0%.[1]

Transport[edit]

Casino railway station is situated on the main North Coast railway line between Sydney and Brisbane, north of Grafton. A branch line ran via Lismore to Murwillumbah; that line has since been closed, although lobbying is taking place to re-open it.[11][12] Casino railway station is the terminus of the daily Casino XPT from Sydney and there is a daily service to and from Brisbane via the Brisbane XPT.

In the 1920s, a never completed railway branch line to Bonalbo was started. A line was also proposed from Casino via Tabulam[13] and even a line all the way to Tenterfield,[14]

Casino is serviced by Lismore Airport with several daily flights to Sydney.

Northern Rivers Buslines operates rural services to Lismore (670) and Kyogle (675) each weekday, with one return service to Tenterfield available on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Brisbane

Casino Bus Service operates local town loops, including a loop service to Gays Hill.

Among its many schools are the main ones: Casino High School, Casino Public School, Casino West Public School, St. Mary's Primary School, St. Mary's Catholic College School and Casino Christian Community School.

Heritage listings[edit]

Casino has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

  • 102 Barker Street: Casino Post Office[15]
  • Casino-Murwillumbah railway: Old Casino railway station[16]
  • North Coast railway: Casino railway station[17]

Location for filming[edit]

The 2014 drama series The Gods of Wheat Street was set and partly filmed in Casino.

Notable people[edit]

  • Henry Wallace Browning O.A.M. (born 1928), lawn bowler, IBD World Champion 2007
  • Ian Callinan (born 1937), High Court judge
  • Pat Darling (1913–2007), nurse and author
  • John Elford (born 1946), rugby league player
  • Jeff Fatt (born 1953), musician and actor, one of The Wiggles
  • Thomas George (born 1949), politician
  • Clark Irving (born 1808), early settler (pastoralist) and politician[18]
  • Ben Kennedy (born 1974), rugby league player
  • Matt King (born 1980), rugby league player
  • John Sinclair Lumsdaine (1895–1948), songwriter, vaudeville artist and entertainer[19]
  • Tess Mallos (1933–2012), food journalist and author
  • James Morgan (1901–1968), Aboriginal singer and activist[20]
  • Chris Munce (born 1969), horse racing jockey
  • Kevin Ross Murray (1930–1991), barrister and citizen soldier[21]
  • Félix Schürr [fr] (1827–1900), Catholic missionary[22]
  • Brian Smith (born 1954), rugby league player and coach (attended Casino High School)[citation needed]
  • Tony Smith (born 1967), rugby leaguecoach, brother of Brian Smith, grew up in Casino attending Casino High School[citation needed]
  • Albert Torrens (born 1976), rugby league player
  • Clive Andrew Williams (1915–1980), Aboriginal leader[23]
  • Damien Wright (born 1975), cricket player

See also[edit]

  • Arthur Percy Sullivan (1896–1937), Victoria Cross recipient, worked at a bank in Casino during the 1930s.
  • The song 'I've Been Everywhere' references Casino in its second verse.

References[edit]

  1. ^ abcAustralian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). 'Casino (Urban Centre/Locality)'. 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 19 October 2018. Material was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  2. ^'Casino'. Climate Averages for Australian Sites. Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 24 November 2006.
  3. ^'Early Bay History'. The Richmond River Herald And Northern Districts Advertiser. New South Wales, Australia. 19 November 1937. p. 7. Retrieved 12 October 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^'Casino'. Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.
  5. ^'Place Names'. The Australian Women's Weekly. 13 May 1964. p. 61. Retrieved 22 February 2011 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^'Minutes Ordinary Meeting'(PDF). Richmond Valley Council. 16 July 2002. p. 32. Archived from the original(PDF) on 22 July 2005. Retrieved 7 August 2008.
  7. ^'Minutes Ordinary Meeting'(PDF). Richmond Valley Council. 18 March 2003. p. 42. Archived from the original(PDF) on 22 July 2005. Retrieved 7 August 2008.
  8. ^George, Thomas (30 May 2000). 'Northern Star Casino Beef Week 2000'. Hansard. Parliament of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 10 September 2007. Retrieved 10 August 2008. I speak about Casino, the true beef capital of Australia
  9. ^'Casino Tourism'. Casino Tourist Information Centre. Retrieved 10 August 2008.
  10. ^Beef Week Beef Week
  11. ^'No plans to reopen line'. Retrieved 25 May 2009.
  12. ^'State Nationals member lobbies to reopen line'. Retrieved 25 May 2009.
  13. ^'COUNTRY NEWS'. Daily Mail (5393). Brisbane. 2 January 1920. p. 2. Retrieved 1 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  14. ^'Casino-Tenterfield Railway'. The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser. New South Wales. 17 December 1920. p. 4. Retrieved 1 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  15. ^'Casino Post Office'. New South Wales State Heritage Register. Office of Environment and Heritage. H01405. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  16. ^'Old Casino Railway Station'. New South Wales State Heritage Register. Office of Environment and Heritage. H01216. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  17. ^'Casino Railway Station and yard group'. New South Wales State Heritage Register. Office of Environment and Heritage. H01111. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  18. ^L Daley. 'Irving, Clark (1808–1865)'. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  19. ^Groot, Murray. 'Lumsdaine, John Sinclair (Jack) (1895–1948)'. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  20. ^Wild, Stephen. 'Morgan, James (Jim) (1901–1968)'. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  21. ^Selth, P. A. 'Murray, Kevin Ross (1930–1991)'. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  22. ^'Felix Schurr'. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  23. ^'Williams, Clive Andrew (1915–1980)'. Australian Dictionary of Biography. 2002. Retrieved 30 March 2015.

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Transport in Brisbane, the capital and largest city of Queensland, Australia, is provided by road, rail, river and bay ferries, footpaths, bikepaths, sea and air.

Transport around Brisbane is managed by both the Brisbane City Council and the Queensland Government, including through cooperation with external operators such as Airtrain Citylink.

Brisbane

Most public transport in Brisbane is co-ordinated by TransLink. Rail services are operated by Queensland Rail, through its City network system. Bus services are operated by both the Brisbane City Council's Brisbane Transport subsidiary and private operators, and uses the road network as well as dedicated bus lanes and busways. Ferry services on the Brisbane River are operated by Transdev Brisbane Ferries.

Road transport is via the standard residential street network managed by the Brisbane City Council and the connecting arterial road network which is managed by Department of Transport and Main Roads. The Brisbane Airport Corporation manages Brisbane Airport.

  • 2Public transport

Cycling[edit]

Brisbane is constructing a number of cycle routes and dedicated, off-road bikeways. The South-East Bikeway is a bicycle only bikeway running adjacent to the South East Freeway. It empties onto the Goodwill Bridge at South Bank, which in turn, connects with the Bicentennial Bikeway underneath the Riverside Expressway. The Bicentennial Bikeway continues along the Brisbane River to Toowong.

A limited number of buses used to carry cycle racks on the front but this service is no longer available. Bicycles are easy to transport on the CityCats, and many stops have bicycle racks. During peak hour, bicycles on Queensland Rail's (QR) City network services are restricted to counter-peak-flow services (i.e. You have to be travelling away from the city in the morning, and to the city in the afternoon). Exceptions to this are relatively uncommon such as fold up bicycles fitting within certain dimensions. Riding a bicycle on QR property is always forbidden.

A bike station in the King George Square busway station offers many amenities including showers and locker rooms for members.[1] Subscriptions for a Velib style community bike hire scheme called citycycle by JCDecaux for Brisbane started on 1 September 2010 with bikes available from 1 October 2010 at 150 stations from the University of Queensland to Teneriffe.[2]

Lime scooters were introduced in November 2018 as a trial with a temporary exemption as the scooters can travel at 27 kilometres per hour (17 mph) which is faster than the 10 kilometres per hour (6.2 mph) permitted by Queensland legislation.[3]

Public transport[edit]

Brisbane's public transport system is provided by rail, buses, ferries and taxis. A large tram network closed in 1969. A smaller trolleybus system closed at the same time, with routes on both systems being replaced by buses.

TransLink is a division of the Department of Transport and Main Roads that manages the planning, co-ordination, integrated ticketing and zoning for public transport services covering Brisbane and the rest of South East Queensland. It contracts Queensland Rail, private bus operating companies and Brisbane Transport to operate public transport services in allocated operating areas for a negotiated price, and keeps all fare receipts. Passengers pay common fares, based on the number of zones travelled through, on all the public transport modes covered - trains, buses and ferries, irrespective of who operates the service. In 2007, Translink introduced the go cardsmartcard-based ticketing system. Paper tickets are still available, but travel using the go card costs significantly less than using a paper ticket.

Rail services are operated by Queensland Rail. Ferries are operated by Transdev Brisbane Ferries. Contracted buses that serve the regional areas outside and across the Brisbane boundary are operated by private companies.

After some years of decline, Brisbane's public transport system is being revitalised and finding greater patronage, with significant investment in railway station upgrades, busways, reorganised bus routes and new buses. However, patronage remains a far cry from public transport's heyday in the 1940s, when the tram system alone carried 160 million passengers annually. By comparison, Brisbane Transport buses carried 53 million passengers in 2005, although Brisbane's population has doubled since the 1940s. This figure climbed to 77 million in 2010.[4]

The CBD is the hub for all public transport: Queen Street bus station for buses, Roma Street and Central stations for trains, and North Quay for ferries. Various smaller transfer hubs, such as the Cultural Centre busway station, are located at various strategically placed points of public importance and public interest in the city, including the Queensland Cultural Centre, South Bank Parklands and shopping malls, which are usually within dense population centres. Many busway stations are co-located with (e.g. Roma Street station) or are near to train stations (e.g. Cultural Centre bus station and South Brisbane railway station), facilitating transfers between modes.

In December 2005, TransLink began all-night public transport services on Friday and Saturday nights, under the name of NightLink. These bus routes have numbers prefixed with the letter N, and often carry security guards. The Beenleigh, Ipswich and Caboolture rail lines also operate into the early morning hours.

Buses[edit]

Main bus services in inner-city Brisbane

Brisbane City Council operates Most of its suburban and urban bus services under the TransLink integrated public transport scheme. TransLink is responsible for all timetabling and ticketing on Brisbane City Council (Brisbane Transport) buses, which Brisbane Transport constructs, leases back (a sell and leaseback scheme operating between the Council and State) and operates.

Outer suburb bus service providers include: Bribie Island Coaches,[5]Brisbane Bus Lines, Caboolture Bus Lines,[6]Hornibrook Bus Lines,[7]Kangaroo Bus Lines,[8]Logan City Bus Service, Mt Gravatt Bus Service,[9]Park Ridge Transit,[10]Thompson Bus Services,[11]Transdev Queensland[12] and Westside Bus Company.[10]

Buses generally operate on a 05:00 to midnight timetable throughout the week, with some Friday and Saturday night 24-hour services. This puts the bus network out of the reach of early morning shift workers. In addition to the local bus routes, most routes in Brisbane are express (CityXpress) and don't observe minor stops. Buses on some routes, prefixed with a P, accept no cash, only pre-purchased tickets or go cards.

BUZ (Bus Upgrade Zones) are high-frequency express routes, pioneered by Brisbane City Council, that provide services on main corridors at least every 15 minutes on any day of the week from 6am to 11pm.[13]

Brisbane Casino Tower

During peak hours, 'Rocket' buses bypass most intermediate stops, while 'Bullets' (such as the Browns Plains 142) don't stop between the CBD and their final destinations.

The CityGlider is a high-frequency route operating between Newstead and West End via the CBD. The Maroon [City]Glider operates between Ashgrove and Stones Corner via South Bank. Other CityGlider routes are planned. CityGlider services require prepaid tickets (i.e. go cards). They use branded buses stopping only at specified CityGlider stops, and run every 5 minutes in peak hours and every 10 to 15 minutes outside peak hours.[14]

The 'Great Circle Line' bus routes operate on a large anti-clockwise (route 598) and clockwise (route 599) loop around Brisbane's outer suburbs. They are used for travel between suburbs, particularly the larger shopping centres, without the need to travel through the CBD.

Buses often provide free transport between major shopping centres (for example Westfield Carindale), and the Gabba or Lang Park for sporting match events.

The free City Loop and Spring Hill Loop bus services provide high-frequency public transport access within the Brisbane CBD, and between the Brisbane CBD and Spring Hill. The City Loop operates clockwise and anti-clockwise in the Brisbane CBD from designated red-sign bus stops, using distinctive red buses. The Spring Hill Loop operates on a continuous loop between the CBD and Spring Hill, stopping at yellow-sign bus stops, using distinctive yellow buses.

The 'Brisbane Explorer' (superseding the 'City Sights' services) was a non-TransLink prepaid hop-on, hop-off service that visits Brisbane's landmarks, including Mt Coot-tha, on a two-hour journey. Services suspended in 2017.

During the Christmas period, a special 'Christmas Lights' service operates (tickets must be pre-purchased), often with buses decked inside with Christmas decorations.

A busway network has been constructed to provide public transport access to areas in the northern, eastern, and south-eastern corridors of the city beyond the reach of the metropolitan train lines. Busways are roads dedicated to buses only. Brisbane's three busways are the South East Busway, the Northern Busway and the Eastern Busway.

A new bus rapid transit system, branded the 'Brisbane Metro' was announced in 2016 by the Brisbane City Council. The proposed 21 kilometer metro will service the Brisbane CBD every 3-minutes during peaks times and would be capable to transport 22,000 passengers an hour. Subjects to approvals, the Brisbane City Council expects the detailed design and construction of the project to commence in 2019 with metro services commencing by 2023.[15]

Casino In Brisbane Australia

Rail[edit]

Queensland Rail, Central railway station

The large Queensland Rail City network consists of seven suburban lines covering mostly the south-west, north and outer east sides of the city. It also provides part of the route for the Airport line service between the City and Brisbane Airport (the route itself being owned by a private company Airtrain Citylink). interurban services also extend to the hinterlands of both the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast.

Construction for an extension of the current rail network commenced in September 2017. The Cross River Rail project is a proposed 10.2 Kilometer rail link creating five new inner city stations and increasing the current core capacity of the rail network.

River[edit]

CityFerry
CityCat catamaran ferry

Buses From Casino To Brisbane

Ferry services are operated on the Brisbane River by Transdev Brisbane Ferries. CityCats are catamarans. The area covered by the CityFerry services differs in being smaller with stops spaced closer together, and is operated with 12 monohull ferries, varying slightly in appearance from one another.

Taxis[edit]

Three cab companies operate in Brisbane: Yellow Cabs (whose vehicles are painted orange), Black and White Cabs and 13Cabs (2018). All three companies offer services under the same fare system (regulated by the Queensland government). They may pick up passengers from anywhere in the metropolitan and regional areas of Brisbane via casual or permanent bookings cab ranks. As well as standard taxis, both provide Maxi-Taxis designed to accommodate up to 10 people and with disability access. They also operate luxury vehicles (Silver Service for Yellow, Business Class for Black and White). All cabs now are also fitted with GPS tracking systems for driver location and have debit/credit card EFTPOS facilities.

Public Transport Statistics[edit]

According to data released by Moovit in July 2017, the average amount of time people spend commuting with public transport in Brisbane & South East QLD, for example to and from work, on a weekday is 68 min. 22.6 percent of public transport riders, ride for more than 2 hours every day. The average amount of time people wait at a stop or station for public transport is 13 min, while 18.7 percent of riders wait for over 20 minutes on average every day. The average distance people usually ride in a single trip with public transport is 9 km, while 20 percent travel for over 12 km in a single direction.[16]

Roads[edit]

Brisbane's road system was planned around large, spacious suburban areas. Dense suburbs now rely on several main road corridors that split through and between these areas and provide the only link to the CBD and other areas of Brisbane. Logan Road, Moggill Road, Old Cleveland Road and Gympie Road are but a few of these multi-lane corridors that come out of the CBD and snake through the suburbs. As a result, traffic congestion has become a major problem and it was the promise of a new underground road system, nicknamed TransApex, that helped former Lord MayorCampbell Newman win the 2004 local government election.[citation needed]

Moggill Road, Taringa

Bypasses such as the Inner City Bypass, Clem Jones Tunnel, and the Airport Link are intended to help to circulate traffic away from the inner-city areas and main roads via limited-access roads above the ground, and tunnels below that have higher speed limits and exits to particular suburbs. Existing high speed cross-suburban motorways such as the Western Freeway, Centenary Motorway, Pacific Motorway and Gateway Motorway provide alternative routes to main roads and connect up to main highways and other arterial roads. Other tunnels are also being planned to link all the various motorways in Brisbane together as part of TransApex, but only two have been scheduled for completion within the next decade.

In total, the twisting Brisbane River is crossed by seven road bridges, a road tunnel, three railway bridges, three pedestrian bridges and a dedicated bus, cycle and pedestrian bridge. Route signage is achieved by means of a system of Metroads, consisting of the most important arterial roads in metropolitan Brisbane including most motorways, and less important State Routes. Multiple freeways connect Brisbane to other cities, including the Pacific Motorway, the Bruce Highway and the Ipswich Motorway, all of which are part of the National Highway System. Brisbane is approximately 1,000 km away from Sydney, the closest major capital city.

Airports[edit]

Etihad AirwaysBoeing 777 at the International Terminal at Brisbane Airport

Brisbane Airport, leased by the Brisbane Airport Corporation and located north-east of the city centre, is the biggest airport in Australia in terms of land size.[17] Brisbane Airport is the third busiest airport in the country behind Sydney and Melbourne Airports respectively. Separated into domestic and international terminals, Brisbane Airport has frequent passenger and freight flights, providing direct flights to every capital city in Australia as well as many destinations in Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East. Virgin Australia, the second largest airline in Australia, is headquartered in Brisbane, while other major airlines Qantas and Jetstar Airways both fly from Brisbane Airport.

The Airport railway line provides a link between the Domestic and International Terminals at Brisbane Airport and the city, taking approximately 20 minutes to travel from Central station to the Airport stations.

Archerfield Airport, located in Brisbane's southern suburbs, caters to general aviation. Other local airports can be found at Caboolture and Redcliffe.

Seaports[edit]

Brisbane's seaport, Port of Brisbane on Fisherman's Island, and Brisbane Airport from space, Landsat montage

The Port of Brisbane is on the lower reaches of the Brisbane River and on Fisherman's Island at the river's mouth; it is the third most important port in Australia for value of goods.[18]Container freight, sugar, grain, coal and bulk liquids are the major exports. Most of the port facilities are less than three decades old, and some are built on reclaimed mangroves and wetlands. Historically, Brisbane's port facilities were located as far upstream as the central business district.

The economic region near the river's mouth including the port, airport and refineries is known as the Australia TradeCoast.

Historic[edit]

Historically Brisbane had a network of trolleybuses and trams, both of which were closed in 1969 in favour of an expanded bus fleet.

The Brisbane Tramways Trust experimented with providing bus services in the 1920s but these proved impractical due to mechanical unreliability and Brisbane's poor road surface quality. The first permanent bus services were introduced in 1940 as a supplement to Brisbane's tram services. In 1948 the council municipalised a number of privately run bus operators and expanded its own fleet of buses. The first tram lines to close were the Lower Edward Street to Gardens route, and the Upper Edward Street to Gregory Terrace route in 1947, the latter due to the very steep grades on that line. Diesel-engined buses initially replaced tram services on these lines, however these were replaced by trolleybuses on 12 August 1951.

The council also intended to introduce a trolleybus service to the new University of Queensland campus at St Lucia and purchased enough trolleybus chassis from the United Kingdom for the route. However, it was vigorously opposed by residents and the plan was abandoned. The council then found itself with surplus trolleybuses but no route on which to run them, so it decided to run the trolleybuses from Herston to Stanley Bridge, East Brisbane, commencing in 1952. Several other trolleybus routes were subsequently established in the eastern suburbs. The first of these replaced a tram route, along Cavendish Road, in 1955. Other trolleybus routes to Seven Hills and Carina did not involve tram route closures. The depot and workshops for the trolleybuses was located in Milton on Milton Road between Hale and Castlemaine Streets. The former depot was demolished to make way for the redeveloped Lang Park.

The tramway closure was notable for the speed with which it was carried out. Several hundred replacement buses were purchased from British vehicle manufacturer Leyland, at the time the largest single bus purchase in the world. The sudden acquisition of so many buses was to have repercussions in later years. Initially the Leyland Panther buses proved unreliable, and as a result, older front-engined mounted buses such as the Leyland Mk III Regals, dating from the 1940s, were retained well past their normal replacement date. Once the problems with the Panthers were ironed out, overall fleet numbers and maintenance requirements were reduced. Nevertheless, the fleet retained many older buses from the 1950s and early 1960s.

In 1975, the WhitlamLabor federal government made $80 million available to the Bjelke-PetersenNational Party Queensland state government, intended to be passed on to Brisbane City Council for the purchase of new, replacement buses. The government refused to transfer the funds to the council, instead using the money to restore Parliament House and construct the Parliamentary Annexe building.[citation needed] As the replacement bus fleet aged, their maintenance requirements steadily increased, at a time when labour and spare parts costs had risen sharply. Further, as the tram replacement buses started to wear out at about the same time and needed replacement, the council was faced with another large capital outlay. Subsequently, in 1976, the council was able to negotiate federal funding, enabling them to purchase Volvo B59 buses, its first fleet acquisitions in seven years.

Patronage on the buses continued to decline, despite the best efforts of the Department of Transport hampered by rising fuel and labour costs, together with tightening budgets, leading to further cuts in services. An ageing bus fleet, some of which had been in service since the 1940s, made the service increasingly unattractive. A further hindrance was the council's own aggressively pro-car 1964 City Plan, requiring all developments to include car parking, but did not require the provision of any facilities that might advantage public transport. By the 1980s, the decline in patronage was halted, although costs continued to outstrip ticket revenue.

Future infrastructure[edit]

Public Transport Brisbane Australia

Brisbane's population growth has seen great strains placed upon South East Queensland's transport system. The State Government and Brisbane City Council have responded with infrastructure plans and increased funding for transportation projects, such as the South East Queensland Infrastructure Plan and Program. Most of the focus has been placed on expanding current road infrastructure, particularly tunnels and bypasses, as well as improving the public transport system.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  2. ^'CityCycle Brisbane'. Archived from the original on 7 October 2010. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  3. ^Caldwell, Felicity (16 November 2018). 'Hundreds of electric scooters appear on Brisbane streets'. Brisbane Times. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
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  5. ^Route InfoArchived 1 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine Bribie Island Coaches
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  7. ^RoutesArchived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine Hornibrook Bus Lines
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  9. ^Public TransportArchived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine Mt Gravatt Bus Service
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  11. ^Urban RunsArchived 17 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine Thompson Bus Services
  12. ^Urban Services & Night LinkArchived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine Transdev Brisbane
  13. ^BUZ servicesArchived 28 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Brisbane City Council. Retrieved on 3 June 2011.
  14. ^CityGlider servicesArchived 28 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Brisbane City Council. Retrieved on 3 June 2011.
  15. ^'Brisbane Metro'. Brisbane City Council. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  16. ^'Brisbane & South East QLD Public Transport Statistics'. Global Public Transit Index by Moovit. Archived from the original on 12 September 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017. Material was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International LicenseArchived 16 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine.
  17. ^'Our Company'. Brisbane Airport Corporation. Archived from the original on 10 August 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  18. ^Australian Sea FreightAustralian Department of Transport and Regional ServicesArchived 27 April 2006 at the Wayback Machine

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