The $1.2 billion mass transit project’s developers have revealed a proposal to temporarily relocate the station’s outbound platform to the West End side of Grey St so that it nestles against the entrance to the South East Busway tunnel.

The shift will allow for construction of a new Brisbane Metro platform outside the Cultural Centre. Works are expected to begin next month and finish around October next year.

In a development application lodged with Brisbane City Council, the project’s Brisbane Move consortium says it plans to built a 45 metre shelter to act as a temporary bus stop in Melbourne St while the Metro construction goes on.

It would mean the temporary shelter will have to service dozens of routes running from the city and suburbs north of the river to eastern and southern suburbs.

Metro-related works on the CBD side of the river have been going on for months as the project’s Adelaide St tunnel is being built.

The new Cultural Centre station would include widened footpaths and a revamp of existing forecourts.

However, that part of the project may itself be temporary, depending on whether the council and the State Government can thrash out the ideal location for the underground Metro station that was originally proposed for the Cultural Centre and Convention Centre precinct.

The new Cultural Centre forecourt. (Image: Brisbane Move)

Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner is on record as saying that the above-ground Cultural Centre station would not meet the transport demands of the Brisbane 2032 Olympics.

The Brisbane Metro project is championed by the council as a vital mass transit option for those parts of the city not serviced by rail. The completed project would ultimately feature all-electric vehicles operating along dedicated busways from Eight Mile Plans to Roma St and the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital to the University of Queensland.