Queen Street bus station
Introduction


**Queen Street bus station** is the primary bus terminus in [Brisbane central business district](/wiki/Brisbane_central_business_district "Brisbane central business district") in [Queensland](/wiki/Queensland "Queensland"), Australia. It is underneath [Uptown, Brisbane](/wiki/Uptown%2C_Brisbane "Uptown, Brisbane") (formerly the Myer Centre) \& [Queen Street Mall](/wiki/Queen_Street_Mall "Queen Street Mall"). It opened on 26 March 1988 along with the Myer Centre. At the time it was the largest underground diesel bus station in the world.

Queen Street bus station serves as the terminus of many routes servicing the [South East Busway](/wiki/South_East_Busway "South East Busway"), Southern and Eastern Suburbs and the [Centenary](/wiki/Centenary_Motorway "Centenary Motorway") / [Indooroopilly](/wiki/Indooroopilly "Indooroopilly") / [Kenmore](/wiki/Kenmore%2C_Queensland "Kenmore, Queensland") corridor. It is served by 35 routes all operated by [Transport for Brisbane](/wiki/Transport_for_Brisbane "Transport for Brisbane").[Queen Street bus station map](https://translink.com.au/sites/default/files/assets/resources/plan-your-journey/maps/20190819-queen-street-station-locality-map.pdf) TransLink August 2019

No [Northern Busway](/wiki/Northern_Busway%2C_Brisbane "Northern Busway, Brisbane") services directly connect [King George Square busway station](/wiki/King_George_Square_busway_station "King George Square busway station") with the Queen Street busway station. After stopping at King George Square, a number of inbound services bypass the Queen Street stop or terminate at the [Cultural Centre](/wiki/Cultural_Centre_busway_station "Cultural Centre busway station") on the southern side of the [Brisbane River](/wiki/Brisbane_River "Brisbane River"), and vice versa. However, King George Square and Queen Street are only a short walking distance apart.

The station is divided into several platforms originally named after Australian native animals, but are now identified with letters and numbers: Passengers wait behind [automatic doors](/wiki/Platform_screen_doors "Platform screen doors") on the stop that is assigned to their bus.

In June 2015, the platforms were again renamed, becoming numbers.[TransLink](https://twitter.com/translinkseq/status/608876472200237056)  TransLink Twitter Feed 22 June 2015

|Original   

| [Kangaroo](/wiki/Kangaroo "Kangaroo") \& [Platypus](/wiki/Platypus "Platypus") (now Platform 1\) | 1A \- 1I | Southern and Eastern Suburbs, [South East Busway](/wiki/South_East_Busway "South East Busway") |
| [Koala](/wiki/Koala "Koala") (now Platform 2\) | 2A \- 2D | [Centenary](/wiki/Centenary_Motorway "Centenary Motorway") / [Indooroopilly](/wiki/Indooroopilly "Indooroopilly") / [Kenmore](/wiki/Kenmore%2C_Queensland "Kenmore, Queensland") corridor |
| [Crocodile](/wiki/Crocodile "Crocodile") (now Platform 3\) | 3A \- 3B | [Mount Gravatt](/wiki/Mount_Gravatt "Mount Gravatt") and [Holland Park](/wiki/Holland_Park%2C_Queensland "Holland Park, Queensland") services, [South East Busway](/wiki/South_East_Busway "South East Busway") |

The station has a portal for buses traffic to enter and leave at the northern end of [Victoria Bridge](/wiki/Victoria_Bridge%2C_Brisbane "Victoria Bridge, Brisbane"), to connect to the [Cultural Centre busway station](/wiki/Cultural_Centre_busway_station "Cultural Centre busway station").

The former entry/exit portal (on [Albert Street](/wiki/Albert_Street%2C_Brisbane "Albert Street, Brisbane"), facing [King George Square](/wiki/King_George_Square "King George Square")), from the Queen Street busway station, was converted into a tunnel so that the station could be connected to King George Square busway station, which opened in May 2008 in the lower two levels of the King George Square Car Park.[King George Square station](https://web.archive.org/web/20080720180325/http://www.translink.com.au/qt/translin.nsf/index/busway_innernorthern_kinggeorgesquare) TransLink[Inner Northern Busway \- Queen Street to Roma Street](http://www.cimic.com.au/our-business/projects/completed-projects/inner-northern-busway-queen-street-to-roma-street)  CIMIC Group


Why do some Northern Busway services bypass the Queen Street stop or terminate at the Cultural Centre instead of King George Square?