Northern Busway, Brisbane

Northern Busway
Overview
System	TransLink
Status	In service
Began service	February 2004 (2004-02)
Route
Start	South East Busway
Via	main city train lines, Exhibition railway line, Victoria Park Golf Complex
End	RBWH precinct
Stations	13
Route map to Chermside Cremorne Road Sadlier Street Gympie Road Kedron Brook Kedron Brook Lutwyche Truro Street via Airport Link Windsor Station Roblane Street Federation Street Lutwyche Road Enoggera Creek RBWH Herston QUT Kelvin Grove Normanby Roma Street King George Square South East Busway This diagram: ←      →

The Northern Busway is a bus-only road in Brisbane, Queensland. The busway allows buses to travel north/south through the Brisbane City without encountering car traffic. The first section of the Northern Busway opened in February 2004 and had one station, the QUT Kelvin Grove. station. Later the Normanby and Herston stations opened.

The Northern Busway extension opened in stages with the Herston to Windsor section opening in August 2009, and the Windsor and Kedron section opening in June 2012.

The Northern Busway starts at the end of the South East Busway. It then proceeds north-west to the King George Square Bus Station. The Northern Busway then surfaces near Roma Street railway station and follows the alignment of the main city train lines. The busway then continues north alongside the Exhibition railway line and then north-east through the Victoria Park Golf Complex, with stations adjacent to the Normanby Fiveways, the QUT campus at Kelvin Grove and the Royal Children's Hospital in the suburb of Herston. The busway then turns left and on to a bridge structure alongside the RBWH precinct over Butterfield Street. In the future, the busway will continue to Bracken Ridge, via Windsor, Lutwyche, Kedron, Chermside and Aspley. At Windsor, it integrates with the Airport Link project, a new underground road to the Brisbane Airport.

The first section of the Northern Busway, from the intersection of Roma Street to Herston, opened in February 2004 with only one station, QUT Kelvin Grove. In December 2005, two new stations, Normanby and RCH Herston, were opened on the first section of the Northern Busway. In May 2007, the Queensland Government gives the green light for the Airport Link project, which includes an extension for the Northern Busway. This extension will take the Northern Busway to Bracken Ridge via Windsor, Lutwyche, Kedron, Chermside and Aspley.

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