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:
““Epic poem,—ten thousand lines—revolution of July—composed it on the spot—Mars by day, Apollo by night,—bang the field-piece, twang the lyre.””
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“This ferry was as busy as a beaver dam, and all the world seemed anxious to get across the Merrimack River at this particular point, waiting to get set over,—children with their two cents done up in paper, jail-birds broke lose and constable with warrant, travelers from distant lands to distant lands, men and women to whom the Merrimack River was a bar.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)