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BaT Tunnel

BaT Tunnel
Overview
Type Commuter Rail
System City network
Status Cancelled
Locale Brisbane
Termini Dutton Park
Bowen Hills
Stations 3
Services Brisbane Airport line
Gold Coast line
Website Queensland Government
Operation
Owner Queensland Rail
Operator(s) City network
Technical
Line length 4 km (2.5 mi)
Track gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Route map
Northern lines (Continues to Airport Line)
4.5 km Albion (2)
Breakfast Creek
Ferny Grove line
2.7 km Bowen Hills (1)
Exhibition line
Exhibition station (1)
0.8 km Roma Street station (1)**
0.0 km George Street station (1)
0.0 km Woolloongabba station (1)
Continue to Park Road and City stations
5.9 km Dutton Park station (2)
Southern Lines (Continues on Gold Coast line)

The BaT (Bus and Train) project was a proposed north-south tunnel that would provide bus and rail modes of transportation together in an intuitive design by combining a new underground rail line and busway in a single, double-decked, 15m-wide tunnel beneath the Brisbane River and Brisbane central business district. The tunnel was to have three underground stations at Woolloongabba, George Street and Roma Street with Dutton Park upgraded.

The BaT project was planned to be a critical new link in South East Queensland’s public transport network by creating new major transport hubs across the city and inner city suburbs, and facilitating existing locations such as The Gabba, and the new Queen's Wharf development on George Street.

Following a change in State Government, the project was cancelled in March 2015 and replaced by a new Cross River Rail proposal.

In November 2013, the Queensland Government announced a revised plan for the BaT (Bus and Train) project as an alternative to the previous Cross River Rail proposal. The revised plan involved a 14.8m external diameter (13.5m internal diameter) 5.4 kilometres (3.4 mi) tunnel to accommodate both a dual track rail line on the lower level and a two lane busway above. The cost was expected to be $5billion with construction proposed to start in 2015 and completion in 2021.Citytrain patronage is quoted as having increased at an annual average of 3.4% between 2006–12, compared to an average annual population increase of 2.4% over the same period, confirming forecasts that the Merivale Bridge will reach capacity some time between 2016-2021.

The proposal commenced in the vicinity of Dutton Park station, with two new underground stations at Woolloongabba (adjacent to The Gabba) and George Street (in the CBD) adjacent to a proposed casino redevelopment site. The balance of the proposal involved the previously proposed underground station at Roma Street and the line connecting to the Exhibition line near Bowen Hills. The Underground stations were to also be busway stations. The southern end of the busway was proposed to connect directly to the existing Eastern Busway, with the northern end then proposed to connect to the Northern Busway via a bridge over the railway and adjacent Inner City Bypass motorway.


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