Road to city paved in gold for coast workers THE daily exodus of workers from the Gold Coast to Brisbane has increased more than 60 per cent since 2006, as the glitter strip's economic burst makes the Pacific Motorway the busiest intercity commuter corridor in Australia. The almost 26,000 people who journey from the beachside city to Queensland's capital dwarf Australia's second-busiest commuter cohort, Wollongong to Sydney, which recorded 17,100 daily commuters at the 2011 census.