City of Gold Coast - A Close Look

Explore the infrastructure and facilities of the City of Gold Coast with Desklib's study material. The study covers the city's electricity, water, and transport facilities, including bus, rail, and airports. The research method used is secondary research, and the major findings are discussed in detail. The study also highlights the future directions for the city's development and the need for community engagement spaces.

CITY OF GOLD COAST
-A CLOSE LOOK
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Introduction
 The city of gold coast is one of the renowned
coastal cities in the Queensland region of the
country, Australia.
 The city is situated approximately 66 kilometre
south-south east of the state capital of Brisbane and
at the immediate north to the border of the new
south wales (Goldcoast.qld.gov.au 2019).
 The population of the city is counted to be 698090
in the year 2016 which makes sure it is in the 6th
position in the list of the populated cities and the
second populated city of the Queensland region
(Abs.gov.au. 2019).

Research Method
 The research method that is utilised in
the case of investigation of the city of
gold coast is secondary research.
 The secondary resources on the
adventure tourism are also evaluated in
order to investigate the availability of
infrastructure that the city has in place
for a better recognition of the city in
terms of the facilities (Ma and Hassink
2013).

Major Findings
oElectricity
oWater
oTransport
• Bus
• Rail
• Airports

Electricity
 The Powerlink Queensland is the source of
electricity for the city. The supply of the
Powerlink Queensland is transferred through
the supply substations at bulk which is
provided through the national electricity
market (Powerlink.com.au. 2019).
 Energex, the government owned electricity
corporation distributes the natural gas,
electricity and the liquefied petroleum gas and
other valuable products and the services to the
residential, commercial and the industrial
customers of the city (Energex.com.au. 2019).

Water
 The Hinze dam situated at the south west of Nerang
is the main source of the water in the city
(Seqwater.com.au. 2019).
 The significant quality of the water of the city is
recognised for the HACCP water management
system of it by the world health organization
(Seqwater.com.au. 2019). The organization was seen
to comment on the optimum quality management of
the water and the safety from the catchment to tap.
 The local government is observed to implement the
project of the gold coast desalination plant in the year
2009 which plays a crucial role in the supply of the
desalinated water up to 133 mega litres per day
(Seqwater.com.au. 2019).

Transport (Road)
 Surfside Buslines is the main service provider of the
public bus services in the gold coast region
(Surfside.com.au. 2019).
 The city is seen to have a number of multi-channel
roads for the connectivity to the other cities like the
new south wales, Brisbane and the neighbouring areas.
 The Logan motorway is seen to connect the various
parts of the city to Brisbane and at the same time links
with the pacific highway near the border of the new
south wales and Queensland.
 Reedy creek road, Robina parkway, Southport
Burleigh road are Nerang-Broadbeach road observed
to be notably important in the city’s development and
the connectivity with the other parts of the Queensland
and Australia.

Transport (Rail)
 The railway connectivity in the city is divided in
to two different modes which are the heavy and
light rail.
 The light rail service of the city is seen to be
known as the G:link.
 The service covers 20 km line and connects
Helensvale and Broadbeach. During the linking
of the two mentioned spots, the service also
connects the activity centres of Southport and
the surfers paradise.
 The heavy rail service is seen to be operated by
the Queensland rail along with the gold coast
railway line.

Transport (Airports)
 The city is seen to have the gold coast airport as
the main airport for the air transportation and
the airport is situation at the Coolangatta region
which is 22 kilometres away from the south of
surfers paradise (Goldcoastairport.com.au.
2019).
 The traffic in the airport is pretty evident and
that is visible with the 6th ranking of it in the list
of the busiest airports of Australia
(Austairports.com.au 2019).

Discussion
 The city is seen to have strong transportation connectivity. The construction of the roads is significant in
connecting the city of gold coast to the major cities and the territories of the country like the brisbane and
new south wales.
 The local government needs to be more proactive in their approach to trigger the international business
conduction through the port.
 The third extension of the g: link is in the planning stage which needs to be implemented soon to make sure
that the mobility inside the city is increased. The g:link services need to be extended to the burleigh heads.
 The same need is present for the heavy rail way as well where the services of the gold coast line need to be
extended to coolangatta.
 The city is seen to lack community engagement spaces for the engaging with each other which can improve
the community (dedekorkut-howes 2013).
 One of the significant loopholes of the city is seen to be in the form of the absence of the waste
management system (waltham et al. 2014). The city is unable to have diversified waste management
system for the liquid and the solid waste.

Future Directions
 In near future, the governing authority of the city needs to put more focus on the
marine transportation and the business activity in the ports needs to be increased.
 The local government needs to make sure that they effectively monitor the operations
of the ports and trigger the business activity through the vendor organizations.
 The connection between the gold coast line and the airport is not present and that is
seen to affect the business conduction in significant manner. Hence an extension of
the gold coast line to the airport is much needed in near future to improve the
business conduction in the region (Vigitcanlar, Dur and Dizdaroglu 2015).
 The government needs to make sure that they be able to develop the infrastructure of
the existing beaches in order to increase the tourism activities in those beaches. The
infrastructural development of the adventure sports activity is examined to be an
absolute need of the city (Dedekorkut-howes and Bosman 2015).

Conclusion
The prime engineering and
infrastructural developmental
needs of the city are seen to be
in the form of the new airport,
the rail line extension, the
restructure of the ports and the
costal transportation.
The community development
needs to be appreciated through
the set-up of the infrastructure.

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