ing works for the
Airport Link project The first section of the Northern Busway, from the intersection of Roma Street to
Herston, opened on 23 February 2004 with only one station,
QUT Kelvin Grove. On 14 December 2005, two new stations,
Normanby and
Royal Children's Hospital, were opened on the existing section. The second section of the Northern Busway, also known as the Inner Northern Busway, officially opened on 19 May 2008. This section connects the first section of the Northern Busway to the
South East Busway with stations at
King George Square and
Roma Street. To make room for the Inner Northern Busway, the lower floors of King George Square carpark were removed, and one rail platform at
Roma Street railway station was removed. In October 2007, an alliance of
Abigroup and
SMEC Holdings were selected to build the 1.2 kilometre
Royal Children's Hospital to
Windsor section with a new station at
Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital. This opened on 3 August 2009. On 18 June 2012, the Windsor to Kedron section opened.
Extension to Bracken Ridge The final stage of the busway is planned to be built from
Kedron to
Bracken Ridge. A series of draft alignments in order to identify the corridor for preservation have been released, however no final route has been selected. Provisions for this extension were pre-built at the Kedron Portal of the Busway. In 2016, the
Newman Government had indicated an intention to revisit the alignment for this project. Their primary points of departure from the policy of the previous government were a preference not to build the full busway option, nor to take the busway all the way to
The Prince Charles Hospital. These changes were predicated on the perceived high expense of the previously published preferred options. The Newman government's stated preference was for
bus or transit lane level priority along the highly congested
Gympie Road corridor. In August 2024, it was announced
Brisbane Metro would be extended using the
Northern Transitway to
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