Queen Street Bus Station, Brisbane
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Queen Street
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| Location | |
| Street | Queen, Elizabeth, Adelaide, George and Albert Streets |
| Suburb | Brisbane |
| TransLink Region | Brisbane Central |
| TransLink zone | 1 |
| Facilities | |
| Number of stands / platforms | 12 open, 5 closed |
| Total number of bus routes | many |
| Park 'n' Ride | yes |
| Public telephones | yes |
| Public toilets | yes |
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| Transfers | |
| Train transfer | no |
| Busway Navigation | |
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- For Singapore, please go to Queen Street Bus Terminal.
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The Queen Street Bus Station is the Brisbane CBD's primary bus terminus. It is located underneath The Myer Centre and Queen Street Mall. It is in Zone 1 of the TransLink integrated public transport system.
Where other Australian cities in earlier decades invested in underground rail, Brisbane, Queensland, in an attempt to clear up city streets, invested in tunnels for its bus system.
Passengers wait for their buses behind automatic doors in an air-conditioned environment with advanced information displays.
Queen Street Bus Station is the terminus for many services using the South-East Busway. The bus station is divided into several platforms, originally named after Australian native animals, but now with letters and numbers as their names:
| Original platform names | Platform names | |
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| Kangaroo and Platypus | → | A1 – A10 |
| Koala | → | B1 – B5 |
| Crocodile | → | C1 – C2 |
The Queen Street Bus Station has a portal for bus traffic to enter and leave the bus station at the northern end of Victoria Bridge, to connect to the Cultural Centre Busway Station. The former entry/exit portal (on Albert Street, facing King George Square), from the Queen Street Bus Station, is currently being converted into a tunnel so that the bus station can be connected to, and be supplemented by, the King George Square Busway Station (which is to be built, during 2006-2007, in the lower two levels of the King George Square Car Park).
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 Stairwell entrance from Queen Street Mall to the Kangaroo & Platypus platforms at the Queen Street Bus Station |
 Stairwell entrance from Queen Street Mall to the Koala platform at the Queen Street Bus Station |
 The former Albert Street bus station exit portal, which is currently being converted into a tunnel to connect the Queen Street Bus Station with the King George Square Busway Station. |
[edit] External links
- Brisbane City Council Bus information
- TransInfo - Transport information
- TransLink Bus Services website
For an informal but complete listing of TransLink bus routes, see the following list of TransLink services. For accurate bus timetables and route maps, see the TransLink Bus Services website.
[edit] TransLink bus navigation
| TransLink Busways and Bus Stations by Region | |||
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| Busways | Inner-Northern Busway • South-East Busway | Proposed Busways | Boggo Road Busway • Eastern Busway • Northern Busway |
| Brisbane Central | Adelaide Street • Cultural Centre • Queen Street | ||
| Brisbane South | Browns Plains Grand Plaza • Garden City | Brisbane East | Cannon Hill • Carindale |
| Brisbane North | Aspley • Brookside • Chermside • Toombul | Brisbane West | Inala Plaza • Indooroopilly • University of Queensland |
| Eastern Region | Capalaba • Victoria Point | Western Region | Bell Street |
| Southern Region | Loganholme • Springwood | Northern Region | Strathpine • Caboolture |
| Sunshine Coast | Caloundra • Kawana • Noosa Heads • Sunshine Plaza | Gold Coast | Australia Fair • Harbour Town • Pacific Fair • Surfers Paradise • Tweed Heads |
| Brisbane Busway Stations | |
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| Inner-Northern Busway |
RCH Herston • QUT Kelvin Grove • Normanby • Roma Street • King George Square • Queen Street |
| South-East Busway |
Eight Mile Plains • Upper Mount Gravatt • Griffith University • Holland Park West • Greenslopes • Buranda • Woolloongabba • Mater Hill • South Bank • Cultural Centre • Queen Street |
| (stations in italics are under planning or under construction) | |
