Urbanfil access covers - up in Lights with ACO’s polymer concrete electrical pits.

The Inner Northern City Busway is another joint initiative by Brisbane City Council and the Queensland Government to cater for the growth in the city's traffic volumes. This key infrastructure links Queen Street Station to Royal Brisbane Hospital. A 4.7km dedicated roadway corridor for buses, it contains a number of purpose built stations at key locations along its route. All stations are serviced by intelligent transport systems displaying real-time information on bus arrivals, interchanging local buses and, if needed, emergency procedures.

The Royal Children's Busway Station is now complete. Designers selected ACO's access covers and various types of polymer concrete electrical pits/covers to house and protect the station's electrical, communications/CCTV cables. The covers selected for this application are discrete covers, made from durable stainless steel and ductile iron. They are recessed to hold the footpath's polished concrete topping so that the visual continuity of the pavement is preserved.

In keeping with a government requirement to have a portion of the funding dedicated to public art, specialty Urbanfil multipart cover systems were installed at the bus stops with viewing portholes allowing commuters to access a touch activated map, illuminated to display the extent of the busway route and information on the buses that service it.

Urbanfil access covers and polymer concrete pits belong to the ACO Cablemate range of products made in Emu Plains, NSW. Australian manufacturers ACO Polycrete are foremost suppliers of electrical cable jointing pits, drawing pits and continuous ducting systems. They are also suppliers of the industry's broadest range of access covers.

The Royal Children's Busway Station is the 12th station, ACO have supplied since construction began on the city's busway network scheme since 1999. For this project, ACO were also suppliers of KlassikDrain grated trench drainage, for the capture of stormwater runoff from the carriageway.