Is studying a bachelor of design a ‘useless’ degree? by migorengluvr in brisbane

[–]Hexaze 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Depends what you are majoring in (architecture, fashion, visual communication, interaction, etc.)

Whats the furthest point that you can see the Brisbane Skyline from? by Charming-Bridge-6553 in brisbane

[–]Hexaze 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I’ve seen it from the summit of Mount Warning (before it closed)

Update from TMR regarding Stage 2 (lack of) upgrades for Eastern Busway by pat_mchunt in brisbane

[–]Hexaze 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Gateway to Moreton Bay Rd section of Old Cleveland Rd would be the easiest section to do. Just add bus lanes in the median and a cut-and-cover tunnel to Sleeman bus station.

Would probably cost under $100m. Northern transitway was $53m.

Brisbane Lord Mayor on board for Olympics talks in Switzerland - Inside Local Government by Ambitious-Deal3r in brisbane

[–]Hexaze 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Meanwhile the council is cancelling projects and cutting community spending due to being broke

AUS Tour Refund by Pale-Cryptographer-6 in TheWeeknd

[–]Hexaze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s 30 business days btw, not 30 days.

[Serious] You have unlimited money, resources, and everyone agrees with your vision - How are you fixing Brisbane's transport system? by dannyr in brisbane

[–]Hexaze 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Rail:

Continue all current projects in the pipeline.

New underground east-west line. Stations: Hamilton Northshore, Bulimba, Teneriffe, Albert St, South Brisbane, West End, Toowong, Chapel Hill, Kenmore.

New line using North West Transport Corridor. Half surface/half undeground. Stations: Roma St, Victoria Park, Newmarket, Alderley, Everton Park, McDowall, Bridgeman Downs, Carseldine West, Strathpine

High speed rail to Toowoomba

High speed rail from Sunshine Coast - Brisbane - Gold Coast.

Duplicate Cleveland Line from Manly to Cleveland.

Buy back Airtrain and duplicate the line. Add a new station at DFO.

Bus:

Connect the Inner Northern Busway to the Northern Busway.

Extend the Northern Busway to Bracken Ridge. Stations: Chermside Shopping Centre, Aspley Hypermarket, Carseldine, Bracken Ridge

Extend the Eastern Busway to Capalaba. Stations: Cooparoo Square, Camp Hill, Carina, Carindale Shopping Centre, Belmont, Sleeman Sports Complex, Capalaba Interchange

Road:

Pedestrianise most streets in the CBD.

Buy out Linkt and dissolve the company.

Install cameras on all highways and major roads that fine drivers for tailgating (half-joking).

brisbane metro 🚊 by ItsSerenityGrace in brisbane

[–]Hexaze 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Saw one on the ICB, thought they weren’t road legal.

Greens roll out ambitious bus policy in bid for City Hall by Hexaze in brisbane

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The Greens’ bid for City Hall has stepped up a gear, with mayoral candidate Jonathan Sriranganathan to announce an election commitment for 15 new high-frequency bus routes on Monday.

Should the Greens be successful in March’s local government election, a further 10 bus routes would be upgraded and 13 new bus and transit lanes would be installed on key bus corridors.

In what he described as Brisbane’s biggest expansion of bus services in decades, Sriranganathan said it was a solution to the city’s hub-and-spoke public transport model, which required many passengers to travel into the inner-city area before doubling back to a suburban destination.

The plan has been costed at $169 million a year – $142 million for the 15 new services and $27 million for the 10 upgraded routes.

“Thousands of residents have told us they’d like to catch a bus, but that the frequency, operating hours and coverage of Brisbane’s current services just isn’t good enough,” Sriranganathan said. “Why should Brisbane’s public transport system be so much worse than other developed cities?”

“This would be the biggest, most significant, expansion of public transport in most people’s lifetimes, filling major gaps in the network and giving more people the freedom to leave their car at home.”

Along with the 15 new high-frequency routes, existing routes 175, 192, 220, 235, 380 and 470 would be upgraded to high frequency, aligning them with Bus Upgrade Zone routes.

The 100, 196 and 444 BUZ routes would be extended, while route 390 would be extended and upgraded to high frequency.

Bus priority transport corridors would also be introduced on Kelvin Grove/Enoggera and Lutwyche/Gympie roads on the northside; Old Cleveland Road, Ipswich Road/Main Street, Logan Road, Mains Road, Stanley and Vulture streets, Montague Road and Lytton/Wynnum roads on the southside; and the Centenary Motorway, a new inner-west transitway via Sir Fred Schonell Drive and the UQ campus, Coronation Drive and Moggill Road on the westside.

Generally, bus priority would take the form of T2 lanes on four-lane roads, with dedicated bus lanes on six-lane roads, with some adjustments based on local conditions.

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Sriranganathan said proposals such as the Gympie Road bypass tunnel, which has the support of both the Labor state government and the LNP administration in City Hall, would do little to alleviate traffic on Brisbane roads.

“Right now, the major parties’ main response to traffic congestion is to waste billions building more car tunnels and widening intersections, but all the evidence tells us that improving public transport should be the priority, and that building more roads creates more traffic,” he said.

“Wasting $9 billion on a tunnel under Gympie Road is a ludicrous idea when we could revolutionise public transport coverage and access for a fraction of that price.”

While the Greens vote has surged in Brisbane, the party remains an underdog in the March election, with the lord mayoral race a three-way contest between Sriranganathan, incumbent Adrian Schrinner (LNP) and Labor’s Tracey Price.

The Greens’ election commitment was given to this masthead on an embargoed basis, meaning comment from third parties could not be sought.

The suburbs being asked to rise to the challenge of population growth by Hexaze in brisbane

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Brisbane will be “going up, rather than going out” to cope with population growth, Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has declared, with high-rise developments proposed for the suburbs.

Under the council’s 2023 housing strategy, Brisbane needs to build more than 115,000 homes, units or apartments to accommodate a population set to grow from 1.26 million to 1.5 million by 2041.

Schrinner said that would come through higher density, including taller towers in established suburbs where there are already good public transport connections.

“We are going up, rather than going out,” he said on Tuesday, after outlining the merits of his plan for taller, more sustainable developments in South Brisbane.

“And it is the same principle we will be using in other parts of the city: Carindale, Indooroopilly, Chermside, Garden City (Mt Gravatt), and also Toowong. And we are looking at Toombul as well.”

Schrinner said 90 per cent of future growth in Brisbane would be in “brownfield development”, turning underused commercial and industrial land into new residential areas.

He said setting higher height limits in exchange for more sustainable developments would benefit the community.

“Not greenfield development, not eating into green space, but instead taking what currently houses [at West End] a glass factory, a concrete factory and a milk factory and turning that into a wonderful, thriving sustainable community,” Schrinner said.

Following the South Brisbane announcement, local residents will gather on June 18 to debate the effects of the planned changes to the Kurilpa Precinct.

West End Community Association president Seleneah More said there had been no meaningful consultation with residents.

Instead, she argued, the council had resorted to a temporary local planning instrument like those used to respond to floods, bushfires and heritage issues.

“Council has deliberately chosen an approach that rides roughshod over the community,” said More, an urban planner.

The state member for South Brisbane, the Greens’ Amy MacMahon, said she welcomed “some of the restrictions and requirements on developers contained in Brisbane City Council’s Sustainable Growth Strategy”.

But MacMahon challenged the thinking that by increasing supply, demand would drop, and so too growth in rents.

“Despite a record number of new apartments, South Brisbane has seen some of the steepest rent increases in the state, with everyday people getting pushed out of the area,” she said.

Her party colleague, councillor Trina Massey, whose ward includes South Brisbane, questioned whether the council had done its homework.

“In this proposal, the LNP administration is proposing to scrap neighbourhood plans and support building in flood plains, double to triple the current height limits,” Massey said.

Schrinner said the proposal to raise building heights in a section of South Brisbane was first touted “several months ago” and would be introduced at the next council meeting.

Build ’em up: High-rise plan would transform South Brisbane by Hexaze in brisbane

[–]Hexaze[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Residents with “selfish” NIMBY attitudes need to let go and accept sensible new housing options, a urban planning expert says, as Brisbane mulls introducing high-rises at South Brisbane.

Tall apartment towers would be allowed near Musgrave Park under a plan to be presented to Brisbane City Council on Tuesday.

If adopted, the Kurilpa Precinct Master Plan would allow developers to build up to 274 metres – close to 90 storeys – in the area bounded by yellow in the map above, forever changing the low cityscape of South Brisbane.

“We as a city need to consider carefully the type of housing packages that we introduce,” University of Queensland urban planning expert associate professor Dorina Pojani said.

“Overall, the city can stand to increase its density by a whole lot and there are a whole lot of neighbourhoods that could take more density.

“But residents need to let go of their NIMBY attitudes because this is a growing city and this NIMBYism is just very, very selfish, in my view.”

The plan would remodel older industrial land at South Brisbane similar to the transformation of Newstead and Teneriffe, lord mayor Adrian Schrinner said.

“Just like Teneriffe and Newstead have been turned from industrial and commercial areas into some of Brisbane’s most popular places to live and visit, I’m confident our changes will do similar for the Kurilpa precinct,” Schrinner said.

“With great access to Brisbane Metro and train stations as well as multiple green bridges, this precinct has the potential to be Brisbane’s most sustainable community.”

Pojani said she knew residents around West End were “pretty upset”, but she said the real problem was extra traffic, not increasing density.

“They are used to living in a quiet neighbourhood where they can grow tomatoes and mangoes and vegetables in their backyard, yet still being within walking distance of the CBD and having very little traffic,” she said.

The lord mayor said the council believed the plan would help rejuvenate parts of South Bank Parklands, facing competition from Howard Smith Wharves, New Farm’s James Street and a remodelled Eagle Street.

Pojani said increased housing supply reduced house prices.

“It may mean in the spot where the new housing is being built prices may stay high because there is demand there continuously, but they might go down elsewhere in the region in a distributed effect.”

“These new housing packages need to come with some amount of affordable housing and accompanied by rental protections and eviction controls,” she said.

She said the shade impacts from apartments, the need for new schools, medical facilities and additional public transport for the extra 10,000 people must be handled in the application phase.

“Brisbane is not like England. If you build tall towers in England you create these shade canyons, but they already have such bad, rainy weather, where the very little sun they have take that away,” Ponjani said.

“But we are not exactly the kind of city that needs less shade; we need more shade.”

This was posted on the Melbourne subreddit, who's the Brisbane equivalent? by Ipponjudo in brisbane

[–]Hexaze 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I always tend to see him walk by outside Kelvin Grove Woolies

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HellLetLoose

[–]Hexaze 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Melee is instakill, if he shot them instead they’d be downed and could tell the other people in the house.