Cross River Rail work doubles in 2020, creating more jobs

Construction on Cross River Rail will double this year, with 11 new worksites in the southeast creating more than 500 extra jobs. Find out where.

AN extra 500 people will be employed this year as work on Cross River Rail ramps up.

Cross River Rail Minister Kate Jones today announced construction would more than double in 2020 as up to 11 new worksites open across the southeast.

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“Already we’ve got 1000 workers on Cross River Rail sites across the city,” she said.

Ms Jones said work would soon start at the RNA Showgrounds ‘Exhibition’ station, at stations from Salisbury through to Fairfield, on the Gold Coast where new stations are being created at Pimpama, Helensvale North and Merrimac and at the project’s southern tunnel portal, south of Boggo Rd.

Minister for Cross River Rail Kate Jones with Cross River Rail Delivery Authority general manager Matthew Martyn-Jones late last year. Picture: Richard Gosling/AAP

“Regular rail users may have noticed extensive work has also begun in our rail corridors, particularly near Normanby where the project’s northern tunnel portal will be built,” she said.

Cross River Rail Delivery Authority CEO Graeme Newton said demolition at Roma St and Albert St would be completed this year, workers would start tunnelling from Woolloongabba to Boggo Road and station upgrades and work on the new Gold Coast stations would begin.

The $5.4 billion, 10.2km Cross River Rail line from Dutton Park to Bowen Hills will provide a second river crossing for trains through 5.9km of tunnel under the Brisbane River and CBD.

Demolition works under way at Roma Street. Picture: David Clark

It allows for turn-up-and-go services, will shave travel time to Brisbane’s south and the Gold Coast and is expected to create 7700 construction jobs across southeast Queensland while it’s built.

Late last year the Government invited developers to detail their plans to transform five of the redeveloped stations in what is expected to attract $20 billion worth of new development.