No bus lanes

[Richard Youl]

Today the State Government finally admitted that the so-called metro buses (which apparently are a fairly standard single articulated diesel bus in a ‘fancy’ body) will not get dedicated bus roads but will get clogged up in traffic jams as do current buses at times along the Gold Coast Highway.

Considering the government used the comparatively small number of anti-tram protesters in Palm Beach as an excuse to abandon the long planned Stage 4 to the airport and NSW, it is surprising that this rather Lriberal part of the state informed by a right wing newspaper should, in the poll below, so strongly criticise the government’s tram-avoiding decision.

This story originally began with a confrontation between cyclists and a bus driver largely because the road is too narrow for both and the future outlook of no bus roads