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:
“Here Men from The Planet Earth
First Set Foot upon The Moon
July, 1969 AD
We Came in Peace for All Mankind”
—Plaque left behind on the moon’s surface by the crew of Apollo 11.
“Telephone poles were matchsticks, put there to be snapped off at a whim. Dogs trotting across the road were suddenly big trucks. Old ladies turned into moving—vans. Everything was too bright, but very funny and made for my delight. And about half a mile from my long liquid breakfast I turned carefully down a side street and parked, and sat beaming happily through the tannic fog for about an hour, remembering how witty we all had been, how handsome and talented ... [ellipsis in original]”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)
“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)