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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 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 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 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!