Here are the 16 locations set for a makeover ahead of the 2032 Olympics
www.abc.net.au
Everyone's talking about the Gabba, but more than a dozen Queensland suburbs are included in the 2032 master plan.

TLDR:

  • New indoor sports centre near Crosby Park in Albion
  • New International Broadcast Centre at West End where Visy is on Montague Rd.
  • New Logan indoor sports centre location TBD
  • Chandler Chandler Chandler for the Chandler things
  • Upgraded Tennis Courts at Tennyson Queensland Tennis Centre
  • All new white water facility in Redlands near Old Cleveland Road (couldn’t figure out where)
  • Upgraded rowing facility at Queensland State Rowing Centre located on Wyaralong Dam (West of Beaudesert)
  • Upgraded Sunny Coast Stadium for Football (the proper kind)
  • Upgraded stadium in Cairns for Football
  • Upgraded boxing facility at the Uni Sunshine Coast campus at Petrie
  • New indoor sports facility at Kawana
  • Mt Bike trails between Nambour and Bli Bli
  • Upgraded Clive Berghofer Stadium in 'Woomba for Football
  •  Kwikxilver   ( @Kwikxilver@beehaw.org ) English
    2•1 year ago

    How the hell are all these people going to get around to these venues? Transit sucks, especially in the sunshine coast and in the Redlands (or anywhere outside of the CBD for that matter).

    Whatever happened to the Eastern Busway? It gets as far as Coorparoo and then buses get released into the hellscape of Old Cleveland Road. The intersection near Carindale with the appearing and disappearing bus lanes feels like some sort of bad Cities Skylines edit.

    Now is the perfect time to start building those regional connectors so we don’t get embarrassed on the international stage when all our precious olympic tourists get crammed into hired bus coaches.

    •  cloaker   ( @cloaker@kbin.social ) 
      1•1 year ago

      I’ll admit I’m not in the regions much (live in gc) but it’s a damn shame how much we neglect bus routes when we’ve basically figured out an easy scalable thing with the busways. Are they forced to negotiate rather heavy traffic?

      •  Kwikxilver   ( @Kwikxilver@beehaw.org ) 
        1•1 year ago

        I don’t use them anymore, but I used to commute on Old Cleveland Road. I’d be stuck in stop start traffic and a bus would often be behind me. The road needs dedicated bus lanes at a bare minimum.

        In a lot of suburbs in the Redlands there’s one bus every 30 mins or every hour - I’d have to plan 3 hours ahead for a journey that would take me 30 mins by car. We can do better than this!