Apollo Road is a ferry wharf in the suburb of Bulimba used by the CityCat on the Brisbane River. The wharf and the cross river service to Bretts Wharf were closed in December 1998 due to declining profit margins. It was reopened as an extension to the CityCat service in February 2008.
In January 2011, the wharf sustained minor damage during the devastating floods. It was repaired and reopened on 14 February 2011.
Until October 2011 the Apollo Road wharf was the terminus for the CityCat services located downstream on the Brisbane River. On 2 October 2011 the CityCat services were extended further downstream to the Northshore Hamilton wharf.
Famous quotes containing the words apollo, road, ferry and/or wharf:
“I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews [sic] the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“And my eyes are blue;
So ferry me across the water,
Do, boatman, do!”
“Step into my ferry-boat,
Be they black or blue,”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
“They commonly celebrate those beaches only which have a hotel on them, not those which have a humane house alone. But I wished to see that seashore where man’s works are wrecks; to put up at the true Atlantic House, where the ocean is land-lord as well as sea-lord, and comes ashore without a wharf for the landing; where the crumbling land is the only invalid, or at best is but dry land, and that is all you can say of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)