Queen Street Bus Station, Brisbane

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Location Street Queen, Elizabeth, Adelaide, George and Albert Streets Suburb Brisbane TransLink zone 1 TransLink region Brisbane Central Features and facilities Number of stands/platforms 17 Number of bus routes many Park 'n' ride yes Public telephones yes Public toilets yes Wheelchair access yes (elevators) Connecting services Train transfer no Next stations Inbound Outbound Inner-Northern Busway terminus King George Square South-East Busway terminus Cultural Centre

For Singapore, please go to Queen Street Bus Terminal.

Queen Street Bus Station is the Brisbane CBD's primary bus terminus. It is 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.

It is the terminus for many services using the South-East Busway. It is divided into several platforms originally named after Australian native animals, but now identified by letters and numbers:

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

The station has a portal for buses traffic to enter and leave 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, was converted into a tunnel so that the station could be connected to King George Square Busway Station, which was built (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 platform A (previously known as the Kangaroo and Platypus platforms)

Stairwell entrance from Queen Street Mall to platform B (previously known as the Koala platform)

[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.

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