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.