Old Pacific Highway at Pimpama will be closed between Pimpama Train Station and Nexus Drive from 7pm on Friday 23 October until 6am on Monday 26 October 2026, so the City of Gold Coast can continue building traffic signals at the Mebbin Street intersection. The detour runs via Bedford Road, Yawalpah Road and Nexus Drive.
Five bus stop closures on the Gold Coast outside the Gold Coast 500 area are in force or coming up before December, and each has an alternative stop listed by Translink. The longest are in Pimpama, where route 724 stops are affected until Friday 27 November and Gainsborough Drive and Sarabah Way stops are closed until 6 December.
The City of Gold Coast’s own list of road projects shows work running into 2027 in Pimpama, Southport, Broadbeach, Coolangatta, Surfers Paradise and across the road network. The City lists two closures on its Mebbin Street project in Pimpama: Mebbin Street itself, shut from 7pm Tuesday 6 October until early December 2026, and a weekend closure of Old Pacific Highway from 7pm Friday 23 October to 6am Monday 26 October.
Queensland’s state-backed fast-charging network is finished, and the Government’s own list of co-funded sites puts one fast-charging location in the Gold Coast, at Pimpama. The City of Gold Coast’s own chargers are a separate story: five of its charging sites were taken off the Chargefox app in November 2024 after they stopped working.