How you can get a sneak peek in the Adelaide St bus and Metro tunnel

Services will begin in the new Adelaide Street bus and Metro tunnel in just four weeks – and we’ve gone underground to show you what it looks like. But you can also have your own sneak peek during the school holidays.

On September 24, members of the public will be able to walk through the underground busway as part of a community open day ahead of the first services on September 29.

Inside the Adelaide Street bus and Metro tunnel.Credit: Felicity Caldwell

The event will include seven sessions between 10.30am and 2pm, with live performances by the string ensemble Paradiso Strings.

This will be the public’s only chance to experience the tunnel before it opens as a busway, with registration essential and open here.

Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner said the tunnel would take almost 1400 bus and Metro services underground daily, easing congestion and freeing up space on city streets.

“It’s just about providing capacity for us to grow the network,” he told ABC Radio Brisbane.

The public has an opportunity to walk through the tunnel before services begin.Credit: Felicity Caldwell

“That will also help decongest the Queen Street bus station as well, because at the moment, a lot of buses are going through there.”

Ten weekends of testing in the Adelaide Street tunnel, including heat and smoke tests to check control systems, were completed late last month.

The tunnel will provide a connection between the Inner Northern Busway and the South East Busway.

- with Catherine Strohfeldt

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