Your say: What Brisbane needs

IT TURNS out Brisbane residents have plenty to say about how the city can improve. Here’s what readers think our city needs.

EVERY city deserves healthy debate about its future. And the people of Brisbane have spoken.

Following from The Courier-Mail’s story about what Brisbane needs, readers have come forward with their own suggestions.

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It follows feedback from a recent Brisbane Development Association: The Committee for Brisbane Liveability Survey including suggestions of a light rail network, leafier streets and a cleaner river.

Here’s what our readers had to say:

GET OUR CITY MOVING

Stuart:

The most important thing Mayor Quirk can do is synchronise traffic lights in favour of peak traffic flow on major arterials in and out of the city.

Traffic gridlock at peak hour in Fortitude Valley. Traffic congestion has been flagged by readers as an area that needs attention. Pictures: Jack Tran

Brisbane Council clearly believes traffic lights are the way to control traffic flows, but fails to understand that it makes no sense to stop hundreds of cars to allow a few to enter from secondary side roads.

The light timing sequence at main intersections should be extended for secondary roads to allow the primary traffic to flow.

This is something a first-year engineering student can fix, yet it seems to be something too hard for the traffic department engineers.

Kevin:

Complete a “Ring Road” around Brisbane by constructing a four to six lane highway between the Strathpine intersection of the Gateway through to Goodna so that traffic from Logan Mwy and/or Cunningham Hwy and/or Warrego Hwy can travel more easily to/through the northern suburbs.

A crash blocks traffic on the Warrego Hwy.

This would be of GREAT relief for residence on “route 20” as well as saving a great deal of time and fuel.

The road would intersect with all “spokes of the wheel” that radiate out from the city in the north and western suburbs, allowing a fast, efficient way to connect in the west/north west. This would also provide an alternative to the Gateway when accidents occur and bring that road to a parking lot.

The Gateway Mwy and M1 are often turned into what looks like a car park.

The road could be constructed through unused land around the back of Mt Coot-tha, but might require some resumption around Pullenvale and another bridge across the Brisbane River near Goodna.

Brisbane NEEDS decent ring roads. This could be the start …

joe m:

Either a tunnel or freeway from the tunnel at Stafford out to Bald Hills to bypass that horrendous stretch through Chermside and Aspley.

Andrew:

Trams would be good but underground in West End, Valley and the city.

I don’t know why we haven’t a Haighs Chocolate shop? Maybe it will come with the QueensPlaza upgrade.

Sweet tooths have called for more chocolate shops.

Daylight Saving would be good and licensed supermarkets, so we can buy beer and wine along with our food.

More focus on segregated bicycle infrastructure.

What happened to that talk about cleaning up the river?

SOUTH BANK’S GREAT BUT WHAT ELSE IS THERE?

Gary:

Went to a Cyndi Lauper concert a few years back and she politely commented that Brisbane has South Bank for the visitor but what else?

I have to agree — where else can you go of any significance?

GOMA is okay for those living in Brisbane.

Brisbane seems a stepping off place to go to the Gold Coast or Sunshine Coast where they both have great hinterlands.

JohnP:

If you have visited MONA in Hobart then you realise what one world class attraction can do for the economy. Could we attract a Guggenheim?

Jane: TIME TO SWEETEN UP

You need a Ganache shop; a Melbourne chocolate shop and much better than Haigh’s

Nathan: PARK PROGRESS

Develop Centenary Place Park. It’s useless and never used. It would provide a bridge between the valley and the city.

Barbara: SAFETY FIRST

Pavements in the city to not have steel rimmed trap doors that are not flush, causing residents to trip and injure themselves, would be good.

This is a very regular occurrence. Has happened to me and many others I know. Very dangerous.

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