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ABC News
a day ago
- General
- ABC News
Brisbane's new bus timetable will begin on June 30. Here's everything you need to know
The biggest change to Brisbane's bus network in two decades will come into effect on June 30. About three-quarters of Brisbane's bus services will change in some way, with services being cut, added, rerouted, renamed, or split in half. ABC Radio Brisbane has created a handy guide to prepare passengers ahead of June 30. What's different? There will be six new bus routes, including the new M1 Metro service. Route 26 Upper Mt Gravatt station (Garden City) to Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH) station via Woolloongabba and Fortitude Valley Upper Mt Gravatt station (Garden City) to Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH) station via Woolloongabba and Fortitude Valley Route P109 Acacia Ridge to City via Ipswich Road Acacia Ridge to City via Ipswich Road Route 127 Indooroopilly to Fairfield Gardens Shopping Centre via Yeronga Indooroopilly to Fairfield Gardens Shopping Centre via Yeronga Route 182 Upper Mt Gravatt station (Garden City) to Holland Park West station via Wishart and Mansfield Upper Mt Gravatt station (Garden City) to Holland Park West station via Wishart and Mansfield Route 197 South Brisbane to City South Brisbane to City M1 New Metro service from Eight Mile Plains to Roma Street Cancelled routes There will be three cancelled routes. Route 28 Langlands Park to the University of Queensland Langlands Park to the University of Queensland Route 145 Browns Plains to Griffith University Nathan Campus Browns Plains to Griffith University Nathan Campus Route P151 Calamvale to City Divided routes Three routes will be divided into two. Route 375 Bardon to Stafford will be divided into Route 348 Stafford to City via Lutwyche, and Route 375 Bardon to City Bardon to Stafford will be divided into Route 348 Stafford to City via Lutwyche, and Route 375 Bardon to City Route 379 Ashgrove to Stafford via Grange will be divided into Route 347 Stafford to City via Grange, and Route 379 Ashgrove to City Ashgrove to Stafford via Grange will be divided into Route 347 Stafford to City via Grange, and Route 379 Ashgrove to City Route 470 Toowong to Teneriffe Ferry will be divided into Route 470 Toowong to City, and Route 309 RBWH station to City via Teneriffe Merged routes Twelve routes will be merged. Route 124 will be combined with Route 125 will be combined with Route 125 Route 174 will be combined with Route 175 will be combined with Route 175 Route 184 will be combined with Route 185 will be combined with Route 185 Route 108 will be combined with Route 105 will be combined with Route 105 Route 117 will be combined with Route 115 will be combined with Route 115 Route 136 will be combined with Route 132 will be combined with Route 132 Route 178 will be combined with Route 177 will be combined with Route 177 Route P129 will be combined with Route 131 will be combined with Route 131 Route P157 will be combined with Route 156 will be combined with Route 156 Route P173 will be combined with Route 172 will be combined with Route 172 Route P207 will be combined with Route P217 will be combined with Route P217 Route P343 will be combined with Route 345 Changed routes There will be changes to 155 routes. Routes 29, 40, 50, 60, 61, 104, 105, 107, 108, 110, 111 (upgraded to M1), 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, P119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, P129, 131, 132, 134, 135, 136, P137, 138, 139, P141, P142, 150, 152, 153, 155, 156, P157, 160 (upgraded to M1), 161, 162, 169, 170 (renumbered to 179), 171, 172, P173, 174, 175, P176, 177, 178, 180, 181, P183, 184, 185, 186, P189, 192, 195, 196, 199, 200, P201, 202, 203, 204, P205, P206, P207, P208, 209, 210, P211, 212, 213, 214, 215, P216, P217, 220, P221, 222, 225, 227, P228, 230, P231, 232, 234, 235, P236, 300, 301, 302, 305, 306, 310, 320, 322, 325, 330, P331, P332, 333, 334, 335, 340, P341, P343, P344, 345, 346, 350, 351, 352, 353, 357, 359, 360, 361, 364, 370 (renumbered to 338), 375, 376 (renumbered to 349), 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, P384, 385, 390, 393 (renumbered to 309), 411, 415, 417, 433, 444, 445, 450, 453, 454, 460, 470, 590, 598, 599 Suburb transfers Twelve suburban routes will now terminate at busway stations. Passengers will either transfer to a Metro or a high-frequency bus to get into the city. Route 105 Route 110 Route 112 Route 113 Route 115 Route 135 Route 155 Route 161 Route 170 Route 172 Route 202 Route 203 Two transfers City workers will need to get used to taking two buses in order to travel from the suburbs into the inner city. The new timetable is based on a "hub-and-spoke" model, with passengers transferring at busway stations to catch a high-frequency connecting service into the city. High-frequency services have been redistributed between the four inner busway stations, designed as a "turn-up-and-go" service without the need to check a timetable. For example, current passengers on Route 110 would get on at Inala Plaza station and get off in the city at the Queen Street bus station. From June 30, commuters on Route 110 will get on at Inala Plaza station, terminate at the Princess Alexandra Hospital station, catch the M2 towards the city, and then get off at the King George Square station. The new route will be more inconvenient, but the total commute time will be largely unchanged. The current Route 110 into the city. / Route 110 after June 30, linking to the M2 marked by the green pins. Metro derailed A centrepiece of this new hub-and-spoke model will be the two Brisbane Metro routes in and out of the city every five minutes during peak hour and weekends. The Brisbane Metro is not an underground railway, as its name would imply, but an electric bendy bus. The name hearkens back to a 2016 Brisbane City Council election promise that failed to eventuate. The M2 route runs between UQ Lakes and the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, and the M1 route will travel between Eight Mile Plains and Roma Street. The full digital timetable will be made available on the Translink website on June 9. In the meantime, passengers can find changes to individual routes by using the Translink journey planner website and selecting a date after June 29. Posted 8m ago 8 minutes ago Tue 3 Jun 2025 at 8:04pm , updated 7m ago 7 minutes ago Tue 3 Jun 2025 at 8:06pm
ABC News
2 days ago
- General
- ABC News
First-time mum left feeling 'devastated' after facing questions over her weight at hospital appointments
First-time mum Emily Chamberlain went into her 20-week pregnancy check-up jittery and excited. "Falling pregnant took us a little while so when we did it already felt like such a miracle," she said. She left "devastated and in tears", after being told that her body was putting her baby at-risk. Ms Chamberlain said the midwife at the regional Queensland hospital had determined her pregnancy as high-risk due to her body mass index (BMI). "My overall health physically just didn't really come into it; despite the fact me and bub were doing really well." The 31-year-old said she saw a new clinician at every appointment, and her weight was discussed each time. "After the third appointment where I was lectured about my weight, instead of supported to be a healthy mother, I came home sobbing," she said. Maternity researchers say every year expectant mothers across the country experience weight discrimination during pregnancy, something they say is unfounded in medical research and dangerous to both the mother and baby. Obstetric physician Leonie Callaway leads a new program at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, which aims to dismantle the "profoundly troubling" bias against larger bodied women in medicine. Professor Callaway said she knew the system was broken after hearing from a patient who was told "she was too fat" to go ahead with a routine maternity procedure. "We are not saying that some women won't need particular attention, but if you fat shame them they're going to disengage entirely and not get the care they need for what could be a higher-risk pregnancy," she said. BMI is a method used to sort patients by weight into four categories from underweight to obese. It's calculated by dividing someone's weight by their height in square metres. Professor Callaway said the use of BMI has long been contested because while it is a "useful scientific measure" on an individual basis it "doesn't account for any of the things that go towards an individual's actual health". "Shame and stigma don't support healthy lifestyle changes, they just get in the way of health care engagement; the result is women and babies exposed to unnecessary harm," she said. While it's well documented weight plays an important role in a healthy pregnancy, public health experts say there's a raft of environmental factors which need to be tackled well before a woman steps into an obstetrician's office. Health psychology researcher at Monash University, Dr Briony Hill, believes "focusing on body weight and size when a woman is already pregnant takes away from a woman centred approach". "What we should be doing is focusing on her health and wellbeing and working out how we can help her have the best pregnancy outcome," she said. Ms Chamberlain lives in a farming town on Queensland's Darling Downs, where the nearest hospital is five kilometres up the road from her family home. She was told she needed to travel almost two hours to a larger facility due to her BMI, even though she and her baby were healthy throughout her whole pregnancy. Maternity wellbeing research shows the importance of limiting unnecessary stress on mothers during pregnancy cannot be overstated. "We know depression and anxiety during pregnancy pose a major risk for mums and babies in the long and short term," Dr Hill said. "Mothers can struggle to bond with their babies and it's not just emotional but physical too, there's the risk of high blood pressure and a reduction in breastfeeding rates." A key finding from Professor Callaway's program was the significance of providing appropriate infrastructure for all bodies. "Something as simple as having the right sized beds and chairs makes a space welcoming," she said. "We'd hear of women coming in to have their observations taken and suddenly there's this great hunt to find a blood pressure cuff that fits, and that's humiliating, when in reality 50 per cent of women will need a larger cuff during their maternity." Professor Callaway's research hopes to educate clinicians on just how damaging their words can be to an expecting mother. "There's a lot of nuance in providing maternity care but the bottom line is we need to take a look at the woman in front of us and not just the black and white data of a BMI," Professor Callaway said. After months of feeling shamed and unheard in the public health system, Ms Chamberlain enlisted a private midwife to provide consistent care. She said having a clinician who considered her whole health as opposed to just her BMI in isolation "changed her pregnancy". Despite the uphill battle she faced, Ms Chamberlain gave birth naturally to a healthy little boy. Now almost two-years-old, her son Levi is a daily reminder of Ms Chamberlain's strength during an incredibly trying time.
ABC News
3 days ago
- Health
- ABC News
E-scooter fatality in Townsville as severe head injuries become major hospital concern
New data shows e-scooter-related injuries are escalating in Queensland only days after a fatality in the state's north. Forensic Crash Unit investigators are probing an incident in Townsville on the weekend when an 18-year-old rider crashed an electric scooter on the Flinders Highway. The teen from Mount Louisa was taken to hospital in a critical condition but later died. The death is also followed by new data from the Jamieson Trauma Institute which shows presentations to 30 Queensland emergency departments have increased to 150 per month, up from 100 per month two years ago. The research, funded by the Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital Foundation and Royal Automobile Club of Queensland, will form the basis of a submission to the state government's inquiry into e-transport safety. Chair of trauma surveillance and data analytics Professor Kirsten Vallmuur said private e-scooter riders now made up two-thirds of e-scooter hospital presentations. "These riders are usually travelling at higher speeds and on roads, often for weekday work-related commutes, are regular riders and often wear helmets," she said. "They sustain more severe injuries and have a higher proportion requiring ambulances and admission to hospital." The research also revealed severe facial and head injuries have become a major concern for hospitals. In Townsville there were 413 e-scooter injury presentations to the public emergency department in 2024, jumping from 265 the year prior. Townsville acting mayor Ann-Maree Greaney said the latest road fatality was an "unimaginable tragedy". "Council will be doing its part to assist the Queensland government with its parliamentary enquiry into e-scooter safety." Commercial e-scooters were approved by the city council in 2020. Royal Brisbane emergency specialist Dr Gary Mitchell said healthcare workers were frustrated about the growing number of injuries. "We're seeing patients coming in who've come off at higher speeds without helmets on board, with alcohol on board," he said. "Often these patients need a trauma response so we need to have a full team to come see and assess these patients. Insurer RACQ is behind calls for major changes to e-scooter rules, including advocating for full-faced protection for private e-scooter use. "RACQ has been advocating for full-faced helmets to be mandatory for people using private stand up e-scooters, and for hire scooters to transition to more stable sit-down models that have a lower centre of gravity," said the insurer's head of public policy, Dr Michael Kane. Queensland Police said more than 2,700 infringements were issued between November 2022 and December 2024 to e-bike and e-scooter riders for illegal road use. A parliamentary inquiry into e-transport will focus on a number of areas including benefits, safety risks and enforcement approaches. A report is required to be tabled by March 30 next year.
News.com.au
6 days ago
- General
- News.com.au
Two men injured after Logan tobacco shop goes up in flames in ‘suspicious' fire
Two men have been seriously injured after a tobacco shop in Logan was set alight in what police say is a suspicious fire. Police were called to a tobacco shop on Forestglen Cres in Browns Plains about 12.15am after reports the shop was engulfed in flames. Two men, aged 47 and 54, were at the scene in the rear of the building as the fire overwhelmed the building, and suffered severe burns. They told police two unknown men had broken into the tobacco shop and poured a substance inside before setting the building on fire. The injured men were transported to Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries to their bodies. 'A crime scene has been declared and police investigations have begun,' a police statement read. Anyone with information about the incident or may have seen anything suspicious is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
News.com.au
07-05-2025
- News.com.au
Tragedy as boy's body found after fire in Queensland
A woman is under police guard and a homicide investigation is underway after a child's body was found inside a home in Queensland's southwest following a suspicious fire overnight. Following a search of the property on Merritt St, Harristown, police found a body believed to be of a nine-year-old boy, though formal identification has not yet occurred. A 36-year-old woman is under police guard at the Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital, where she remains in a critical condition. Police said they are not looking for anyone else in connection to this incident. The home on was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived at about 12.30am on Wednesday. Two young girls, aged four and seven, were flown to the Queensland Children's Hospital where they remain in a critical condition. Two men, aged 34 and 18, were also taken to Toowoomba Base Hospital with serious injuries An 11-year-old boy was also treated at the scene but was uninjured. Speaking to reporters later on Wednesday morning, Darling Downs District Acting Superintendent Scott Stahlhut expressed his condolences for all those impacted. 'Sadly we are here today to report on a tragic event,' he said. 'Any fire that results in a loss in life is tragic.' Darling Downs District Detective Inspector Renee Garske said a crime scene had been declared, with the homicide squad working with local police to try to determine the cause of the fire. 'We know from the early investigations that six people managed to escape that fire – four children and two adults,' she said. 'At this stage that will formulate part of our investigation.'
