The year is 2011. Brisbane is now a city of 2 million people and a region of 3 million. Fuel prices are reaching $1.50 a litre, oil is now harder to extract from the ground and no new oil reserves are being found. Recent infrastructure developments which have been completed or are under construction include, Clem 7, Gateway Duplication, Go Between Bridge, Green Bridge, Eastern Busway, Airport Link & Northern Busway, Legacy Way.

Brisbane is now one of few ‘world cities’ still constructing mammoth highway projects. Investments in transport across the globe are shifting to sustainable mass transit. However Brisbane continues to build billion dollar road projects, completely ignoring peak oil projections and global trends which are seeing demand for alternative transport options in Light Rail Transit (LRT), Heavy Rail and Metro Underground Rail. Read More

Vital transit orientated development project rejected with woeful excuses.

PRELIMINARY PROPOSAL REJECTED: In a move which seemingly went unnoticed back in 2008, the Brisbane City Council’s planning devision, headed by Planning Chair Amanda Cooper has rejected a preliminary proposal for a mixed use Transit Orientated Village development on the basis that it is ‘too tall’. (Images of Gateway Taringa shown below). Read More

DA SUBMITTED: A major mixed use development is set to transform Woolloongabba into a high density, transit-orientated suburb.

Anthony John Group, the developer behind the Fortitude Valley’s highly successful Emporium development has submitted an application to build a mixed use TOD (transit orientated development) style project integrated with the existing Buranda railway and bus stations.

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