Metro services

In 2024, we:

• grew our fleet to 26 metros and counting
• delivered 8,000 hours of metro driver training
• tested and commissioned 60 slow and 15 fast metro charging stations 
• operationalised the Brisbane Metro depot
• finalised Brisbane’s New Bus Network, informed by community consultation and customer data
• launched metros on Route 169 for a 4-week preview in October 2024. 

Brisbane residents and visitors received:

• an opportunity to experience metros early on Route 169 and provide on-board feedback  
• a revised bus network that you can explore through a comprehensive guide and interactive tool   
• upgraded platforms 1 and 2 at Cultural Centre station for easier boarding 
• a revitalised UQ Lakes station, including end-of-trip chargers to keep metros moving 
• finalised King George Square station upgrades with new screen doors to enable all-door boarding 
• the free South Brisbane Loop service (Route 86) to offset construction impacts in the South Brisbane area.

From 28 January 2025, we are:

• launching metros on the M2 route (Route 66) alongside the early implementation of 9 Brisbane New Bus Network routes 
• implementing new and updated school services 
• getting operationally ready with scheduling and timetabling, and M1 trial operations. 

Brisbane residents and visitors will get:

• high-frequency, high-capacity services to universities and key city locations on the M2 route
• improved school access with district services in time for the school year 
• more seats on Route 66, now called M2, with high-capacity metros replacing buses. 

In the second quarter in 2025 (April-June) we are:

• implementing Brisbane’s New Bus Network, our biggest bus network change in a decade  
• launching metros on the M1 route (Route 111 and Route 160) alongside the M2 route. 

Brisbane residents and visitors will experience a world-class bus rapid transit network with turn-up-and-go metro services every 5 minutes at peak times and 24 hours on weekends.

The implementation of Brisbane’s New Bus Network, complemented by Brisbane Metro, will involve new ways to move for some of you. You may:

• have to transfer as part of your journey
• notice new routes on the network or your usual service may have a different route number
• need to take a different service from the one you use now
• be picked up or dropped off at a different bus stop location from where you are now.

In the third quarter in 2025 (July-September) we are completing construction of the Adelaide Street bus tunnel. The construction project has logged more than 350,000 hours of work since September 2021.  

Brisbane residents and visitors will get a dedicated connection between the Inner North and South East busways for metros and buses, to alleviate bottlenecks in the CBD and free up the network.  

From late 2025 and beyond, we will be evolving Brisbane’s New Bus Network in the north, east and west including a Southern Metro to Springwood, Eastern Metro to Capalaba, Northern Metro to Carseldine and a metro to Brisbane Airport subject to funding and approvals.   

Brisbane residents and visitors will experience a new way to move, with turn-up-and-go bus and metro services connecting into rail, pedestrian, cycle and ferry infrastructure.