The Gold Coast has a first class transport system in place to cater for the thousands of visitors to the destination each week. The local bus operator is Surfside Buslines, with CityTrain providing north-south rail services to Brisbane. Gold Coast Car Hire Can also be arranges.
Gold Coast Bus Services
Surfside operates from Dreamworld in the north of the Gold Coast as far south as Murwillumbah in northern New
South Wales (NSW). It is a unique operation as it encompasses both Queensland and NSW state government contracts for Gold Coast City Council and Tweed Shire Council respectively. The area with the best service coverage is the coastal strip, particularly between Southport and Burleigh Heads.
Gold Coast Train Services
CityTrain is the name given to the electric passenger railway network for South-East Queensland, Australia, based around Brisbane. It is a division of QR.
CityTrain runs under the TransLink public transport scheme. The network has an average of 2907 services per week, carries about 142,000 passengers on each weekday, and averages 873,000 passengers per week. Yearly patronage is approximately 48 million trips.
Plans to extend CityTrain's Gold Coast Line south of Robina to the Gold Coast Airport will probably see more feeder services introduced to link new stations into the greater local public transport network.
Gold Coast Airport
The main airport is the Gold
Coast Airport which is located on the Gold Coast Highway at Bilinga on the southern end of the Gold Coast about a five minute drive north from Coolangatta. The major Airlines that service the Gold Coast are Qantas, Virgin Blue, Pacific Blue, Freedom Air, Jetstar and Australian Airlines. International Destinations include Singapore, Hong Kong, Fukuoka, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin. Direct domestic destinations include Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle with connecting flights available from other major centres.
Gold Coast Airport (OOL), or Coolangatta Airport, is an Australian domestic and international airport on the Gold Coast, situated in the suburb of Coolangatta. Over two million passengers a year use the airport.
It is anticipated that a railway station will be constructed at the airport when the Gold Coast line is extended. This will make Brisbane Airport and Gold Coast Airport the first in Australia to be connected by rail.
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