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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • I’d really like to see the speeding fines formally challenged in some way. You hear stories from cyclists that they or their mates have had them overturned, but I haven’t seen any actual evidence of this. Maybe it’s the case that police just choose not to proceed when the fines are challenged, and avoid setting a formal precedent in the courts.

    It would also be interesting if this specific case was challenged. Like you say, it sounds like the 10km/h is supposed to be advisory, but the sign they have used is a regulatory sign which can be enforced by a literal reading of the rules. Not sure if it would hold up in court, and might come down to the judge’s attitude towards cyclists.






  • She claimed its budget is four times the homelessness program budget, but not sure the dollar figure. It was a stunt motion really and she kind of poisoned it by claiming it’s marketing for the mayor and LNP councillors. Maybe there’s some bias there but whenever I’ve looked at it, it’s mostly just generic what’s on and what happened kind of content.

    It was in response to Cr Howard’s stunt motion again calling on the state govt to use Pinkenba for crisis accomodation. And to round it off there was another stunt motion from Cr Cassidy calling on BCC to support the federal govt’s Housing Australia Future Fund.





  • The southside stations were identified as a bottleneck for the increased throughput that CRR adds, so Fairfield to Salisbury are getting extra platforms and raised existing platforms to better support NGR. And I think they rolled in the long overdue accessibility upgrades at the same time. AFAIK that was always the plan from the start, but there was also the late addition of the 3 new stations on the GC that have somehow been tacked on to the CRR project.

    That street gets pretty busy during peak with drop-offs and commuters, and there’s access to the shopping centre too (which could/should be easily closed). But yeah I wouldn’t have thought it would be super high priority.



  • Cr Johnston and someone else (maybe Cr Massey?) called him out specifically on Twitter.

    Plus he has form: 14/06/2023 minutes (.doc file warning)

    Councillor JOHNSTON: The LORD MAYOR stood up in this place and he put out a glossy brochure. He said, there’s going to be a second bridge and he and the Councillor for Walter Taylor Ward are on a unity ticket to see thousands more cars come through our area. Well I’m not—I mean the Councillor for Walter Taylor Ward is actually repeatedly blowing raspberries at the moment, which I think is kind of offensive but, you know, as he turns his chair and turns his back, I mean I guess that’s just how he rolls in this place.