DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT AND MAIN ROADS
$ 160 million of major Gold Coast road upgrades need to be delivered in time for the Commonwealth Games , which are heading to the Gold Coast in 2018 . Yeates says : “ In the last 18 months we ’ ve opened the first light rail project in Queensland on the Gold Coast and we are finalising the second stage so we can connect light rail through to heavy rail . Queensland Rail is duplicating the final section of single track , between Coomera and Helensvale stations , which will deliver improvements to services for the Gold Coast , prior to the 2018 Games . The Games have absolutely been a catalyst for infrastructure projects such as this .” The Games have also given the Department of Transport and Main Roads an opportunity to look at its customer-facing transport information differently too . “ At the moment we manage events in a traffic management sense very well , but the Games will give us a chance to showcase how we do that over the whole transport network and what opportunities
114 November 2016