The Greens plan to convert one car lane on Coronation Drive, Kelvin Grove Road, and Main Street at Kangaroo Point into bus lanes if they win the Brisbane City Council election. However, this would require diverting funding from road-widening projects. The proposal aims to create 15 new bus routes to attract more passengers.
One car lane on Coronation Drive, Kelvin Grove Road and Main Street at Kangaroo Point would be converted to bus lanes if the Greens won the Brisbane City Council election in March. But to pay for the bus lanes , part of a broader pitch to create 15 new bus routes to attract more passengers, the party would have to divert funding already committed to road-widening projects .
One lane of car traffic on Coronation Drive would switch to a dedicated bus-only lane, if the Greens win the Brisbane City Council election on March 16.The Greens’ lord mayoral candidate, Jonathan Sriranganathan, said the council spent approximately $160 million per year widening roads to carry more cars.“Kelvin Grove already has transit lanes. We want to turn them into dedicated bus lanes. “On Coronation Drive, in one direction we would create a transit lane and in the other direction we would create it as a bus lane.”“So, on the outbound, we would have it as a transit lane but inbound we would make it a dedicated bus lan
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