{"id":113195,"date":"2024-08-23T10:56:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T00:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/?p=117208"},"modified":"2024-08-23T10:56:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T00:56:49","slug":"iconic-station-gets-name-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=113195","title":{"rendered":"Iconic station gets name change"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Boggo-Road.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\"><figcaption>Image\/Cross River Rail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jp.translink.com.au\/plan-your-journey\/stops\/park%20road%20station\">Park Road rail station<\/a> is being renamed to Boggo Road rail station in a move to make navigating the network easier for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand\/state-based-news\/queensland\/\">Queenslanders<\/a>.<\/strong><span id=\"more-117208\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rail station has now combined with the Boggo Road busway to create a major public transport interchange, Boggo Road station, offering transfers between the Beenleigh, Gold Coast and Cleveland rail lines and busway services at the one station.<\/p>\n<p>The Cross River Rail project will also deliver two new below ground rail platforms at Boggo Road, further increasing the importance of this interchange location.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Transport and Main Roads, Bart Mellish said the introduction of 50 cent fares is bringing people back to public transport and attracting new customers right across the network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only is the Government making public transport cheaper for Queenslanders, we are also actively making the network better and more user-friendly to ensure those using the network can easily get to where they want to go,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCustomers wanted a common name at this location, and we have listened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoggo Road is an iconic landmark and this is all about making the network easy to navigate for Queenslanders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Customer feedback to Translink demonstrated a preference for a common name at this location.<\/p>\n<p>Translink, Queensland Rail and the Cross River Rail Delivery Authority have worked together on the change, while the feedback from key stakeholder groups has been overwhelmingly supportive.<\/p>\n<p>This week the re-naming began, with initial signage rolling out at this location, while further platform signage and computer systems will continue to transition over the next six to 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/iconic-bridge-gets-name-change\/\">Iconic station gets name change<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/\">Rail Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Boggo-Road.jpg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Image\/Cross River Rail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Park Road rail station is being renamed to Boggo Road rail station in a move to make navigating the network \u2026 <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/iconic-bridge-gets-name-change\/\">Iconic station gets name change<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/\">Rail Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,163,164],"tags":[7465,10376],"class_list":["post-113195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-infrastructure","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","category-train-stations","tag-queensland","tag-rail-express"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113196,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113195\/revisions\/113196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}