Cross River Rail to be renamed after Elizabeth II if LNP wins Queensland election
unionagainstdhmo, 
Shaping up to be a fun election:
If LNP win:
- Optional Preferential voting American democracy
- Name a train line after the previous monarch
- Less news reporting on youth crime
- Less news reporting on Olympics-related drama
- More culture war BS
If Labor win:
- Publicly owned renewable energy project
- More of the same
NigelFrobisher, Queeny McQueenface it is!
hanrahan, 
We can only hope!
I’m riding the Queen’s Face :)
Railison, In the 2000s she was in Melbourne and opened up the new royal children’s hospital. She also opened the original royal children’s hospital.
Imagine being so old that the hospital, built when you were an adult, was so old it was no longer fit for purpose. Metaphor!
Nath, 
The same couldn’t be said for her sister, sadly. The old Children’s hospital in Perth was called “Princess Margaret Hospital”. Unfortunately, Princess Margaret was no longer with us for the new one, so it has the very boring name Perth Children’s Hospital.
Bot4Sale, @Zagorath LNP tackling the important issues I see.
Zagorath, 
Literally just copying London. The article says
The proposal mirrors a similar move in London where a new rail line was called the Elizabeth Line
But it’s even more similar than that. The workong name for the Elizabeth Line was “Cross Rail”. Which sounds awfully similar to “Cross River Rail”.
But also, since when did we name lines that way? All our lines are named for their terminus. There’s no reason that should change.
murbul,
Nath, Wow. That is a blatant copy.
youngalfred, It’s not even a line - most of the lines will use it as an alternative to the Merivale bridge. It’s just a new tunnel for the network.
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