Cr Wines talks about all the “congestion busting” projects he’s got going on. These consist mostly of road widening and other similar projects more likely to induce congestion than bust it.
And that’s all for today. See yous tomorrow.
Cr Whitmee points out a number of cases where public transport is inadequate.
- Wynnum Plaza to CBD: 3 buses for under an hour or 1 bus for 90 minutes.
- Edith Street, Wynnum to Westfield Carindale, 55 minutes by bus or 14 minute car journey.
- Cavendish Road High School to Garden City, 45 minutes by bus, 12 minute car journey.
- Inala Plaza to Sunnybank Hills Shopping Centre, 1 hour 10 minutes and 3 buses, or a 14 minute drive.
All of these to arrive by 9:00 am.
“I don’t know who this LNP Council thinks they’re kidding; they do not support active and public transport.”
The LNP points out that the Beams Road Overpass project, which was basically ready to go, is being held up by a funding review being put in place by the federal Government.
Cr Massey says a street in her ward has had traffic calming removed, against the strong objections of her predecessor, Cr Sriranganathan.
According to Cr Massey, since November 2022 one house on that street has had 5 cars crash into their bedroom.
At this point, I think there might actually be merit in banding together and trying to get one of us elected to Lord Mayor or a local councillor.
Cuz gosh the current crop suck
Cr Murphy says the budget will include funding for the North Brisbane Bikeway stage 5. The stage that was basically ready to go until they cut it last year so they could keep funding road widening projects.
Cr Mackay acknowledges that more cyclists cut congestion, and says that he highly values getting more cyclists onto separated bikeways.
Shame that, in my own discussions with him regarding cycling safety, he has consistently been extremely dismissive and even disrespectful.
Cr Cassidy criticises the “Walkable Brisbane Strategy”. Says the only thing it’s budgeting for is shade over Victoria Bridge, with nothing for outer suburbs.
There are very few active transport things planned immediately, and absolutely none in forward estimates. Because, Cr Cassidy claims Cr Murphy has told him, those will be based not on sensible planning, but on “election commitments”.
Buses today carry 60 million passengers (per year, I assume?). That’s down from 80 million a decade ago, despite significant population growth.
That tracks - train patronage is at about 3/4 pre-covid.
Cr Massey points out that Green Bridges was originally a Greens policy from the 2016 election. She points out the failure to deliver the 5 Green Bridges that the LNP promised at the last election. None have actually been delivered so far. One has been cancelled entirely. Two have been indefinitely postponed. 2 are, at least, still being built.
She points out important missing links like Dornoch Terrace, Vulture Street, and Ipswich Road. Many links that are completely unaddressed by this budget. And that’s just in her ward.
Collier’s the Morningside ward councillor, did you mean Massey?
Dammit, yes, I do. I keep getting those two confused…
Cr McLachlan complains that the State Government put housing on some former reserved land, rather than a bikeway, and claims that the NBB has created “considerable inconvenience” for residents.
He also talks about the benefits of the Brekky Creak green bridge, pointing to a post from the CBD BUG extolling its virtues, claiming that they are “turning their backs on their friends over there” (referring to Labor & the Greens). To my knowledge, the BUGs have never been partisan or aligned with a particular party. They just promote good cycling projects. If he perceives them as being more aligned with Labor and the Greens, that might say something…
The Greens being a party that cares about cycling? Say it ain’t so!
Thanks for summarising these. There was a period a few years back where I was required to watch these from start to finish and after about a month of doing so, I couldn’t take it any more.
It’s much easier to read your bullet point version of their playground behaviour, than to have to sit through it in person.
Cr Mackay points out a plan for the creation of a right-turn lane at Lambert Rd and Central Avenue, Indooroopilly, and the intersection of Sylvan Rd, Croydon St, and Jephson St Toowong to provision a two-way cycle path on the northern side of Sylvan Rd to fix the missing link to the Southwestern Veloway.
Cr Johnston calls out the LNP for failing to act on upgrading the intersection where Dr Geoff Copland was killed while standing on the footpath waiting to cross. An intersection where Dr Copland had even previously campaign for safety upgrades, saying he knew someone was going to get hurt.
Accuses the LNP of caring more about driving traffic through to Indooroopilly and St Lucia by duplicating the Walter Taylor Bridge.
She has moved an amendment to try and see more money go to some safety upgrades in her ward. Cr Griffiths speaks in support of it. Nobody in the LNP bothers to speak at all; they’ll simply be voting it down without discussion or attempting to justify why.
@lodion@aussie.zone @deadcat@aussie.zone @gronax_au@aussie.zone I don’t know if Lemmy makes this possible, but if it does, could you please set the default sort for this thread to “new”?
Sort order is user specific, not controlled by the instance.
Damn, so you can’t set a default sort order on an individual thread basis?
One day! But not this day
No, it’s client side sorted.
