Businesses say they have received little information about the impact of the Cross River Rail project in the suburb it will affect the most – Woolloongabba.This Woolloongabba busway land is likely to be removed and potentially sold to the private sector when a new Brisbane Metro busway is built.Both State Development Minister Steven Miles and Transport Minister Mark Bailey declined to answer questions about a $450 million Brisbane Metro bus station to be built in the inner-Brisbane suburb.
Siblings and business partners Tristan and Tamika Borgo of Frankie’s Smokehouse would like to see parkland added to the Cross River Rail precinct.On the other side lies an empty trade office, a wine import business, an empty global medical business, a bathhouse, an internet marketing business, and Frankie’s Smokehouse.
“We have a massive train station being built directly across the road. That is supposed to take all of the pressure out of the system. You run the risk of just adding more pressure back in.”“Yes, we need better infrastructure for public transport, but I think there needs to be other ways of looking at it,” she said.The pair said some Gabba landholders were planning 20-storey apartment complexes.