In 2008, former premier Anna Bligh promised the Ipswich Transit Centre – right in the middle of the city – would become a world-class transport hub.

In 2020, it is an abandoned, chained-up rusting eyesore in the middle of the city’s heart.

The now-abandoned Ipswich Transit Centre, which former premier Anna Bligh promised in 2008 to turn into a "world-class transport hub".

Now as the Queensland Government plans to spend more than $250 million to build a new transit centre in Brisbane, two Ipswich mayoral candidates are asking: "What about us?"

On March 3, 2008, Ms Bligh promised $5 million to begin the "awakening of the sleeping giant of the Ipswich CBD", but nothing happened. Then in January 2011, it was flooded.