Brisbane 2032 Olympiad

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https://twitter.com/iocmedia/status/1417763724291497989

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Will this bring forward vital Public Transport infrastructure in Se Qld?

Fast Rail

New dedicated Metro corridors e.g. Kenmore via South Brisbane, West End, UQ, St Lucia, Indooroopilly and Chapel Hill.

Upgrading the Se Qld Bus fleet to fully electric by 2030.

Brisbane LRT?

Convert the Doomben Line to LRT continue to the Olympic Village at Hamilton and run it on the outside lanes of Kingsford Smith Drive to Valley then onto CBD.

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Olympics.com---> Brisbane 2032

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In Queensland----> A rubber stamp is one thing, but this is where our Games will be won and lost

According to the council of mayors, the list of investments the Games will encourage includes new road projects in the Brisbane area, upgrades of significant regional road corridors, the Brisbane Metro, Cross River Rail, light rail on the Sunshine Coast, the extension of light rail on the Gold Coast, a Bus Rapid Transit solution through to Toowoomba, and the proposed Faster Rail system to Ipswich, Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast.

All that is going to cost a lot more than $900 million.

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^^I think what they mean here with the Toowoomba solution is that fast rail will run to Helidon or Withcott, with a transfer to rapid bus to Toowoomba from either of these two centres.

[ScaniaGrenda]

Not really trying to get my hopes up about "Faster Rail System". Anytime I've heard about it it turns out it is nothing more than election spin and when the party that announced it gets elected we never hear more about it again until it is election time. Really I'm always keen on it and it would be nice to see in Australia but I don't unfortunately hold high hopes. It is all talk but no action.

Optimistically with the Olympics there is hope they'd get their act together and actually set shovels on the ground and get working for such a major project but we don't really know if this will work out or not, no one except the future itself can say what will happen in time for the Olympics.

[Campbelltown busboy]

This would be the 3rd time that the Olympics have been held in Australia. Does anyone know if the Melbourne Olympics was broadcasted on tv in Australia or would that been just before tv was launched in Australia as it was in 1956 I can remember seeing the Sydney Olympics on tv as I was 13 in 2000

[boronia]

Google knows everything:
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments ... e-olympics

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Google knows everything:
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments ... e-olympics

^^What has this got to do with the Brisbane Olympics?

[Fleet Lists]

It was answering the question in the previous edit.

[Campbelltown busboy]

Google knows everything:
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments ... e-olympics

^^What has this got to do with the Brisbane Olympics?

That was answering my was the Melbourne Olympics on tv question. Brisbane would be most likely streamed at anytime on devices more then being watched on network television where Melbourne would of had small numbers watching as not many people had a tv as tv would of been a new thing in Australia at the time

[boronia]

Yes, TV was new at the time. But savvy retailers would put sets in their shop windows, and dozens of people would hang around outside to watch the shows,

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It was answering the question in the previous edit.

Ah! got it

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ABC News---> A bunch of mayors wanted better trains, so they won Brisbane the 2032 Olympics

[Heihachi_73]

Will this bring forward vital Public Transport infrastructure in Se Qld?

Didn't for Melbourne. Oh wait, that was in 1956; we still don't have vital public transport infrastructure 65 years later.

In fact, we went backwards between the 50s and 70s, then picked up a bit with two decades worth of new trains and trams, and then backwards again in the 1990s (service cuts), and have stagnated ever since aside from some rail improvements such as level crossing removals (which sadly doesn't extend to speeding things up or fixing timetable holes, it's solely done so that cars don't have to wait at the boom gates - even the pedestrian crossings on the same grade-separated roads outside the train station are rarely upgraded so you have to stand there for 60-90 seconds waiting for the green man while your train pulls in, departs and leaves you waiting half an hour for the next one by the time the endless stream of cars stop and the green man appears). Note that I didn't mention buses - we're still running them to timetables the roaring (nineteen) twenties would be proud of.

[boronia]

Will this bring forward vital Public Transport infrastructure in Se Qld?

Sydney didn't get much long term transport benefit from 2000, apart from the OP line and a few adjustments.

[Campbelltown busboy]

Sydney didn't get much long term transport benefit from 2000, apart from the OP line and a few adjustments.

Note that the area witch is now Olympic Park was the Homebush Bay industrial area before the area got redeveloped for the Sydney Olympics witch included the relocation of the Sydney Royal Easter Show witch has been held at the Homebush Bay/Sydney Olympic Park Showground since 1998. The Easter show and big rugby league games are some of the many reasons why Olympic Park station is still useful 21 years after the Sydney Olympics

[mubd]

The lack of hugely expensive transportation projects which were build with the Olympics as the sole reason is probably one of the reasons that Sydney's games wasn't a financial disaster like most games since.

It is true that the 2000 Olympics ended up costing NSW taxpayers $2 billion in today's money over the 10 years that SOCOG existed, but many people would say that the intangible benefits (e.g. national pride, atmosphere in the city) justify the spend. It should be mentioned that Sydney's $2 billion taxpayer spend looks positively financially responsible compared to the $44 billion Beijing Olympics and $52 billion Sochi Olympics (where Putin's embezzlers fiddled the books to make it look like it had returned a profit).

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https://twitter.com/9NewsQueensland/sta ... 8705548288