Extra late night buses will operate in Brisbane to help with the extended Christmas shopping hours during December, lord mayor Graham Quirk has confirmed.
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Brisbane City Council at its full council meeting on Tuesday approved around extra bus links between the CBD and the major city suburban shopping centres.
The extra late night buses will operate as a trial for Christmas 2016 and the number of bus services could be expanded in 2017 if they are popular, Cr Quirk said.
"We have decided as a trial run this year, but I'm sure if they become popular, we'd look at making it a permanent thing next year," he said.
The State Government last month extended late night shopping in the lead up to Christmas 2016 and Brisbane City Council.
However, the extra late night buses will run from December 19.
Brisbane City Council will add extra "outbound services" along 23 routes – listed below – from December.
"That includes bus routes to and from Garden City, Wynnum, Boondall, Bracken Ridge, The Gap, St Lucia, Moggill and Heathwood," Cr Quirk said.
"These services will allow passengers to move from the CB D to these suburban centres and to further suburban destinations from there," he said.
Expanded December bus routes
Routes to benefit from additional Christmas period services:
- 60 (Blue City Glider – Teneriffe Ferry to West End)
- 61 (Maroon City Glider – Stones Corner to Ashgrove)
- 100 (Forest Lake to City BUZ)
- 110 (Inala to City CityXpress)
- 111 (Eight Mile Plains to Roma Street BUZ)
- 120 (Garden City to City BUZ)
- 130 (Algester to City BUZ)
- 140 (Browns Plains to City BUZ)
- 150 (Browns Plains to City BUZ)
- 170 (Garden City via Newnham Rd to City CityXpress)
- 180 (Garden City to City BUZ)
- 196 (New Farm, Merthyr, to City to Fairfield Gardens BUZ
- 199 (New Farm, Teneriffe ferry, to City to West End)
- 200 (Carindale Heights to City BUZ)
- 220 (Wynnum to City CityXpress)
- 222 (Carindale to Roma Street BUZ)
- 325 (Boondall to City CityXpress)
- 330 (Bracken Ridge to City BUZ)
- 333 (Chermside to City BUZ)
- 340 (Carseldine to Woolloongabba BUZ)
- 345 (Aspley, Maundrell Terrace, to City BUZ)
- 385 (The Gap to City BUZ)
- 412 (St Lucia & University of Queensland to City via Toowong BUZ)
- 425 (Chapel Hill to City CityXpress)
- 444 (Moggill to City BUZ)
- 450 (Riverhills/Mt Ommaney to City CityXpress)
- 460 (Heathwood to City CityXpress)
Brisbane City Council has decided to fund the new routes by itself – at a cost of just over $19,400 to cut short complaints that there was not enough public transport when the shopping hours where extended.
Cr Quirk welcomed the extended shopping hours for Brisbane.
"I hope that the additional trading hours will be successful this year and will continue, he said.
"I've talked in the past about my desire to wider trading hours in the CBD on an ongoing basis.
"Any global city, or emerging global city, needs to look at the trading hours and extend them in the CBD as long as possible."
