Spent 2 hours on the M1 going to meet a friend in Burleigh for lunch today. I know the Connector is not finished yet but do we think it will actually make M1 traffic better? It’s unbearable rn.
I read online it will improve traffic time by 10%. Doesn’t seem like a massive win for building a whole other road? That said, I have no clue about this so keen to hear what others think.
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I think it’s 10% NOW in the open section I think.
Worthless “just one more lane bro” mentality, if public transport became viable, traffic will improve otherwise it’s just gonna be another parking lot
Waste of money that won’t solve congestion.
I do like that there’s a bike path that follows it
Dunno, I’m in Coomera and it’s kind of handy. But it seems largely unused at this point.
bad traffic jam on every sunny weekend from 11am onward , 100% chance
it wasnt like that before covid
i used to go go hope island for fishing with kids in the weekend from brisbane, i stopped doing this already , i am basically avoiding gold coast
weekday is even worst, school work peak hours, even within gold coast everywhere is heavy traffic , whole m1 is a carpark
the train stops are not where traveller want to go , thats the major issue, no surfer , no coolangatta airport , just random suburbs far from the beach ….
more highway is unlikely help the issue, all the merging lane and exit point slow the traffic down always
So far I love it – nil traffic & only takes me a few minutes to get to what would sometimes take 25 minutes to Coomera. Foxwell road is an issue though in peak times.
All we know is – its over budget and with many delays
This is absolutely disgusting.
Urban sprawl is terrible, and pairing it together with car centric slop is even worse.
If we can’t cater to population growth in the thousands of square kilometres of residential zones we already have, then this sure as well won’t fix it.
who needs koalas anyway? what have they ever done for me other than give me chlamydia?
Good infrastructure. I drove stage 1 today from Coomera to runaway bay. 21 minute transit time via a 3km stretch of the newly completed Coomera river crossing via the new the m9. The alternative was 43 mins via the m3. Embrace it.
This is the first I’ve ever heard of it, tbh.
I currently live in Coomera and it’s desperately required. The problem here is that development of Northern suburbs has boomed and they don’t have the interconnected roads the more Southern suburbs do which leaves the M1 the only option in some cases to get between suburbs. The car culture down here is also very deep rooted so there is less desire and priority on improving public transport. I lived in Brissie for the last 20 years and have never experienced the levels of congestion down here at the moment.
It killed a bunch of koalas and it wakes me up at 3am. There were petitions to stop it, but this is the easier way for them. They can get fucked.
Should be a tram-train that connects Nerang to Carrara and Broadbeach with buses connecting East-West
How many people could be moved on a train in the same corridor?
I’d rather the $3.5B were spent on improving public transport (even just buying more trains) but I also acknowledge that there’s $5.7B worth of rail upgrades in progress between Brisbane and the GC without even including the 3 new CRR stations at Pimpama, Hope Island and Merrimac which by QLD standards is a lot.
Will I use the coomera connector? Probably.
Will it make a meaningful difference to traffic? Probably not.
Nerang will be a bigger pinch point than it was 15 years ago
Can’t we just have the two partial public transport chunks finished??
The rail to Coolie and the light rail too?
Both cut off halfway to their destination.
Rubbish public transport in our second largest city cut in two by bloody political shortsightedness.
And the Coomera Connector will do nothing to resolve this crazy jigsaw
I think it’ll improve traffic but in the time it’s taken and by the time it’s complete, the traffic has grown to consume that additional capacity.
And Running it into the city helps nobody and makes the situation worse. Need those cars funnelled to public transport hubs to bring people in without their vehicles for the last leg. Together with more public transportation hubs and lines, particularly rail. Need planning for additional rail lines that transport people around Central and those congested stations to free them of people passing through to other stations.
6 years until we have Olympic traffic congestion. Better get cracking.
Should be in suburbs of North Brisbane to link with Bruce Hwy
Of course it will be helpful when finished, issue is it may never be finished. As for all the people asking for more train frequency, it’s pointless as the trains dont go near the people, it should have been Coomera – Runaway Bay – Southport – Main Beach – Surfers etc heavy sky rail to the airport.
Moving traffic from one place to another
Such a fucking waste of money. Cost more per km than the Japanese maglev that’s currently being built.
A major flaw of the Gold Coast (and part of what the CC is trying to aleviate) is the traffic caused by the lack of a diverse public transport system. I live a few minutes up the road from where the CC will finish in Carrara and all I can think is “This big additional highway will just put more cars on the road”. I think 50c fares have been a step in the right direction, encouraging people to leave their cars at home, but the Gold Coast just isn’t set up correctly to be totally reliant on public transport as it currently stands.
I like the idea of the CC as it conveniently starts at my house and will finish where I work so could be of benefit for me. However, long term I don’t think it is the fix it’s developer have designed it to solve unfortunately.
It’s an overbudget eyesore which has just shifted the traffic and affected houseowners along it.
The infrastructure on the Gold Coast is 20-30 years behind the rest of the world.
And all the land around the m1 has been sold off, is protected or is locked away with developers, so there are next to no long term options for heavy infrastructure in one of the fastest growing areas of Australia.