In a break with tradition, fares on trains, buses and ferries will not increase on January 1.
Instead the government slashed fares by 5 per cent on November 3 after $30million from the federal government's scrapped carbon tax was reinvested to cut public transport ticket prices.
In the 2014 June state budget, fares were set to rise by 2.5 per cent on November 3 after the state revised plans for a 15 per cent price hike which was later reduced further to 7.5 per cent at the beginning of the year.
After a statewide public survey in September found 75 per cent of respondents wanted cuts to public transport ticket prices, the state decided to freeze ticket prices throughout 2015, an election year.
The November policy varies to what was proposed in the June budget when the state decided to set fare price rises at an annual 2.5 per cent for the next three years, until 2016-17.
The Newman government decided to halve the 15 per cent annual public transport fare increases to 7.5 per cent when it won office.
Go card holders will continue to travel free after nine weekly Go Card journeys.
The state government estimated the average cost per passenger trip of the lower fare increase would be $7.10.
Travelling to Russell Island from Redland Bay Ferry Terminal is normally a six-zone journey so $6.69 for an adult travelling with a Go Card. All intra-island trips remain free.
A car trip through the Clem7 tunnel will cost $4.78 on Thursday, with the toll rising for the second time in six months following the Queensland Motorways buyout.
The infrastructure company bought the tunnel and the Go Between Bridge in 2014 to complete its Go Via Network, which also includes the Gateway and Logan motorways.
Clem7 toll increases have previously been implemented on January 1, but Queensland Motorways will bring the change into line with the rest of its network tolls, which are adjusted on July 1.
Commuters on Brisbane’s Airportlink M7 tunnel will be charged 2.6 per cent more on tolls in the new year.
From January 1, drivers will be charged $4.62 when travelling between Bowen Hills and Kedron, $5.11 between Bowen Hills and Toombul and $3.92 between Kedron and Toombul.
The changes follow an increase in the Consumer Price Index over the past 12 months.
Motorcycle toll prices are also expected to increase up to 6c.
Even water prices are poised to rise in Redland city in 2015 but not unless findings in a draft Queensland Competition authority report on state government bulk water charges are adopted.
The report recommended a $38 annual increase for 200kL of water in Redlands for the next three years.
People can still make submissions about he recommendation until January 30.
Milk prices in Queensland will also go up on January 1 after Parmalat announced increasing its farmgate milk prices.
From January 1, the Parmalat Queensland Demand scheme will end and with it the tier-one and tier-two pricing structure so all milk supplied to the company will be paid for in a single pricing range.
Parmalat will increase milk prices of four cents per litre for the lowest supply months of February to May and a two cents/litre increase for June and July.
In addition, Parmalat is introducing a growth incentive payment similar to the one introduced in Western Australia at a higher level several months ago.
The bonus payment in Queensland will be for 10 cents/litre paid on all milk supplied in the months from February through July of 2015 and 2016 in excess of what that farmer supplied to Parmalat in the base year of 2014.
