In summing up, Cr Murphy says that they are spending more on public and active transport infrastructure than they ever have before.

Regarding missing links he says “we know this is a city built for cars, we’re retrofitting it for other modes, that’s difficult it will take time and significant expense so there are missing links all over the city that we are endeavouring to fix.”

I wonder how he would respond if the amount this city spends on car infrastructure is pointed out in comparison to active transport infrastructure? Or if projects like Stage 5 of the North Brisbane Bikeway, the connections on Lambert Rd, and Witton Rd, their recent “upgrade” to the intersection between Fig Tree Pocket Rd and Kenmore Rd, or Moggill Rd, and Council’s failure to act on those, was pointed out. NBB was designed and then arbitrarily cancelled. FTP is seeing changes made to the intersection including road widening but somehow there’s “not enough room” for safe cycling infrastructure. The Witton Rd link is one they were told was necessary at the time the Indooroopilly Riverwalk it will connect to was being built, but they haven’t even started consultation on it yet today, over 2 years after the Riverwalk was completed. Moggill Rd is seeing enormous changes to it and is completely devoid of safe cycling infrastructure (paint is not infrastructure).