Queen Street Bus Station, Brisbane

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Queen Street
Station Overview
Location
Street	Queen, Elizabeth, Adelaide, George and Albert Streets
Suburb	Brisbane
TransLink Region	Brisbane Central
TransLink zone	1
Facilities
Number of stands / platforms	12 open, 5 closed
Total number of bus routes	many
Park 'n' Ride	yes
Public telephones	yes
Public toilets	yes
Wheelchair access	yes (elevators)
Transfers
Train transfer	no
Busway Navigation
Inbound Outbound
Inner-Northern Busway
terminus King George Square
South-East Busway
terminus Cultural Centre

For Singapore, please go to Queen Street Bus Terminal.

The Queen Street Bus Station is the Brisbane CBD's primary bus terminus. It is located underneath The Myer Centre and Queen Street Mall. It is in Zone 1 of the TransLink integrated public transport system.

Where other Australian cities in earlier decades invested in underground rail, Brisbane, Queensland, in an attempt to clear up city streets, invested in tunnels for its bus system.

Passengers wait for their buses behind automatic doors in an air-conditioned environment with advanced information displays.

Queen Street Bus Station is the terminus for many services using the South-East Busway. The bus station is divided into several platforms, originally named after Australian native animals, but now with letters and numbers as their names:

Original platform names		Platform names
Kangaroo and Platypus	→	A1 – A10
Koala	→	B1 – B5
Crocodile	→	C1 – C2

The Queen Street Bus Station has a portal for bus traffic to enter and leave the bus station at the northern end of Victoria Bridge, to connect to the Cultural Centre Busway Station.

The former entry/exit portal (on Albert Street, facing King George Square), from the Queen Street Bus Station, is currently being converted into a tunnel so that the bus station can be connected to, and be supplemented by, the King George Square Busway Station (which is to be built, during 2006-2007, in the lower two levels of the King George Square Car Park).

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Stairwell entrance from Queen Street Mall to the Kangaroo & Platypus platforms at the Queen Street Bus Station

Stairwell entrance from Queen Street Mall to the Koala platform at the Queen Street Bus Station

The former Albert Street bus station exit portal, which is currently being converted into a tunnel to connect the Queen Street Bus Station with the King George Square Busway Station.

[edit] External links

• Brisbane City Council Bus information
• TransInfo - Transport information
• TransLink Bus Services website

For an informal but complete listing of TransLink bus routes, see the following list of TransLink services. For accurate bus timetables and route maps, see the TransLink Bus Services website.

[edit] TransLink bus navigation