WE welcome Lord Mayor Graham Quirk's announcement that he will instruct his staff to co-operate with the planning the Cross River Rail.

This is a welcome change from the 2013 bus review where council staff were instructed to boycott TransLink bus review meetings on six separate occasions.

Cross River Rail will increase both train speed and passenger capacity.

By separating the Cleveland line from the Gold Coast and Beenleigh lines, the overall public transport network will become simpler. Future rail expansion for all of SEQ is enabled.

Lord Mayor Graham Quirk needs to scrap his current metro proposal and go back to the drawing board. Mathematically, his metro is a bankrupt proposal.

Even under the most extreme assumptions, such as full trains every 90 seconds, Quirk Metro fails to increase busway capacity.

ROBERT DOW Rail Back on Track

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