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[Camsta]

Hahaha sure Tom - I’m sure the GCCC budget can handle it on your own

 

[TheGoldPersons]

The Bank hosting Paul McCartney November 4th

 

[Iva Bigun]

The Bank hosting Paul McCartney November 4th

Count me in

 

[Brenton87]

Count me in

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[TheGoldPersons]

Stadium needs a tram line or something. What a shit show getting to and from there tonight

 

[Mini GF]

Stadium needs a tram line or something. What a s**t show getting to and from there tonight

Yeah that’s how I found the stadium for the Commonwealth Games too.

 

[robo_1]

Stadium needs a tram line or something. What a s**t show getting to and from there tonight

I can’t believe after 13 years there’s still the same useless transport management plan

 

[The Victorian]

Transport is the most needed improvement to the stadium imo and will have an impact on increasing crowds too.

There are a few options. I believe the Club has been lobbying Council but no luck as yet.

• Hopo ferry events service along the Nerang River to the stadium
• Spur G Link tram from Broadbeach to Nerang Station (although I suspect the Council’s priority is to the airport)
• The 745 local bus to have a bus stop outside so you don’t need to walk all the way from the caravan park especially at night (AFLW games don’t run the shuttle)

 

[SandyToes]

Live and Let Die was amazing

 

[Billy ray]

Minimum change is a massive 10m wide pedestrian bridge across the road with bus drop off and pick ups on both sides.

 

[Mini GF]

Minimum change is a massive 10m wide pedestrian bridge across the road with bus drop off and pick ups on both sides.

That would make a significant difference

 

[The Victorian]

That would make a significant difference

The pedestrian bridge next to AAMI Park makes a big difference too so yep that is a given it should be built! They could also put LEDs into the bridge to colour it into club colours or put signage promoting the games so people see it as they drive under it.
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[Billy ray]

That would make a significant difference

Low hanging fruit solution before the mega bucks. Who is in charge of this? Amateurs who got jobs through nepotism?!?

 

[Iva Bigun]

Live and Let Die was amazing
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Looks like we were in a similar section

 

[Iva Bigun]

Love the two way bus drop off Billy ray. Something has to happen as it’s a joke anytime a crowd is over 13k

 

[Billy ray]

Love the two way bus drop off Billy ray. Something has to happen as it’s a joke anytime a crowd is over 13k

Who needs to know this to get it to happen? Anyone know anyone in council?!? Or at club who can push for it?

 

[SandyToes]

Who needs to know this to get it to happen? Anyone know anyone in council?!? Or at club who can push for it?

It would be about the only good thing to come out of the never to be underestimated idiocy of Mad Mad Tom McTate of trying to host the Commonwealth Games.At the moment they would argue there's just not enough 25K+ events to justify the cost, but if the crazy gets up and we have to succumb to turning the ground over to 15 second 100m runners from the Faroe islands we might(might) get a functional public transport plan

 

[GC2015]

Stadium needs a tram line or something. What a s**t show getting to and from there tonight

I think we're all hoping that the upcoming 2032 Olympics will be the catalyst for the state government to fund an east-west extension from Broadbeach to Nerang Station with a stop at HBS. Especially with the recent announcement of cricket being introduced and HBS likely being one of the venues that is used due to the Gabba being occupied with the opening ceremony/athletics/closing ceremony. You'd at least expect a few Olympic cricket matches to be played at Carrara and for that reason alone I'd expect a tram extension to the stadium to at least be discussed in the lead up to the 2032 Games.

An overpass with stairs down to the tram station in the middle of the road would be ideal. Have bus bays on either side of the road too. Problem solved and future proofed. The priority is still getting the tram line down to the airport first (which is fair enough) but council has stated several times that east-west lines to the city's two stadiums in Carrara and Robina will be next after the airport. They are currently working on stage 3 to Burleigh and that's supposed to be completed in 2025. Assuming there isn't much time between the completion of stage 3 and the beginning of stage 4 to airport, they could be done by 2027/2028. That gives us around 4 years to campaign for an extension to our stadium. Obviously if we start winning and selling out games more regularly then the government should be willing to listen.

 

[robo_1]

Who needs to know this to get it to happen? Anyone know anyone in council?!? Or at club who can push for it?

A lot of the cost could be funded by advertising screens on each side.

 

[exile]

Who needs to know this to get it to happen? Anyone know anyone in council?!? Or at club who can push for it?

i believe nerang broadbeach rd is a state controlled road, so potentially would need to go through state government in association with stadiums australia or something like that?

 

[Big Red Machine]

It would be about the only good thing to come out of the never to be underestimated idiocy of Mad Mad Tom McTate of trying to host the Commonwealth Games.At the moment they would argue there's just not enough 25K+ events to justify the cost, but if the crazy gets up and we have to succumb to turning the ground over to 15 second 100m runners from the Faroe islands we might(might) get a functional public transport plan

SandyToes has been made an enemy of the state in the Faroe Islands

 

[Bjo187]

I think Tony Cochrane had a relationship with the mayor, so no doubt Tony would have been badgering him for years about it. I did see this today but don't have full access to the article.

https://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/future-gold-coast/light-rail-to-movie-world-call-for-better-public-transport-to-improve-experience-for-tourists/news-story/add15dea4c1712ce9cf30cc0ce33c2cb?amp

 

[Jen2310]

I think Tony Cochrane had a relationship with the mayor, so no doubt Tony would have been badgering him for years about it. I did see this today but don't have full access to the article.

https://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/future-gold-coast/light-rail-to-movie-world-call-for-better-public-transport-to-improve-experience-for-tourists/news-story/add15dea4c1712ce9cf30cc0ce33c2cb?amp

Theme parks supremo Bikash Randhawa has called for improved public transport to help keep tourists out of traffic, including a possible extension of the light rail to Movie World.
The Village Roadshow Theme Parks chief operating officer said better connectivity was vital to ensure tourists enjoyed a “seamless experience”.
“We’ve got to make sure that visitors are not spending a lot of time on the road. They’re spending more time at attractions, at restaurants, at facilities,” he said.
“Certainly the congestion and the issues we are seeing with traffic is a huge concern.
“I think the G:Link is fabulous, it’s taken a bit of pressure, but it needs to expand and connect to more areas in my opinion.”

The light rail terminates at Helensvale station, three kilometres as the crow flies from the front door of Movie World, and closer still to Wet’n’Wild and the Australian Outback Spectacular.

But tourists using it to reach Village Roadshow’s Oxenford parks from hotels must switch onto buses at the station for the last leg of their journey, something Mr Randhawa hopes will change.

“It needs to be looked at. For us to have the G:Link connect between Broadbeach and Surfers Paradise into Oxenford will help local government, state government, in making sure that experience is seamless,” he said.

“We would love to see that. We would love to see better public transport into the theme parks.

“This is no different to any other tourism city in the world. You look at the public transport, you look at the connectivity. It happens everywhere except for here and it needs to.”

Council leaders have previously said they want extensions of the light rail in the city’s north to be the next cab off the rank after Stage Four to the airport is completed.

Then city planning boss Cameron Caldwell said last year: “All the great cities in the world have great public transport and it cannot just stop at the airport but we need to see stage after stage after stage.

“(We need to) get it to Harbour Town and beyond because we need a network that actually works and it will make a huge difference to how people move around.”

East-West light rail connections running to Robina and Nerang from the coastal strip have also been suggested, but no concrete plans have been decided.

Mr Randhawa said he would also like to see more direct flights to Gold Coast airport from overseas, saying with the creation of Experience Gold Coast the city was heading in the right direction, but had yet to reach its full potential.

“What’s happened with Gold Coast Airport has been tremendous. I applaud their management team. With the expansion, with the way that sits with the city, because airports are critical to our success,” he said.

“What we would like to see in a perfect world is direct flights into the Gold Coast from India.

“At the end of the day we are an island here that’s far away.

“So what we’ve got to do is to make it affordable, to get that connectivity going and we would have millions of people coming here.

“There’s no reason this city can’t be at 90 per cent occupancy all year around.”

Speaking ahead of the Bulletin’s Future Gold Coast forum at the Sea World Resort Conference Centre on Friday November 17, of which Village Roadshow Theme Parks is a major partner, Mr Randhawa said the city was playing a “critical” role as the gateway to Queensland and at the heart of Australia’s tourism industry.

He said he would like to see federal and state governments acknowledge that role by appointing MPs from the city to lead their tourism strategies.

“I would like to see the next Federal Tourism Minister come from this city. I’d like to see the next tourism minister at state level come from this city,” he said.

“It is so important we get appropriate care, get appropriate subsidies, get appropriate attention at all times, because this is exactly where it all starts for Queensland. And finishes.

“People come to the Gold Coast. You look at international markets, you look at India for example, typically they would pick Sydney, Gold Coast, Cairns, or it’s Melbourne, Gold Coast and up to Cairns. The Gold Coast is always a part of the itinerary.

“It is so critical. You look at the millions of people we put through the door.

“For us to have that position, the city needs to be represented in the tourism space.

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“We are number one, we are the best city in Australia, we’ve got better things than Sydney, we’ve got better things than Melbourne.
“And we deserve that attention.”

 

[The Victorian]

Welcome to….. People First Bank Stadium

'People First Bank' Heritage & People's Choice Bank Unified

Australia’s largest customer-owned bank has unveiled its new brand, announcing that Heritage and People’s Choice will be unified under the new name of People First Bank.

www.bandt.com.au

Geez Heritage Bank Stadium had a much better ring to it.. even had the same colours as the Club too!

 

[brucetiki]

Welcome to….. People First Bank Stadium

'People First Bank' Heritage & People's Choice Bank Unified

Australia’s largest customer-owned bank has unveiled its new brand, announcing that Heritage and People’s Choice will be unified under the new name of People First Bank.

www.bandt.com.au

Geez Heritage Bank Stadium had a much better ring to it.. even had the same colours as the Club too!

I tend to agree. They should taken a leaf out of Bendigo/Adelaide Bank’s merger and just wiped one of the brands names out (in their case, Adelaide Bank).

The People’s Choice Credit Union brand never truly recovered from an Optus-esque outage a few years ago (and their current branding is essentially Bunnings-lite) so I reckon they could’ve just wiped the People’s Choice Credit Union brand and rebadged them as Heritage Bank and no one would’ve noticed.