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This is a really weird general business. Cr Massey complained about a dangerous intersection not getting anything done about it. The Lord Mayor uses his general business to deliver a speech blaming Cr Massey and saying it would require the removal of all the parking in the vicinity of the intersection to make it signalised.
Now Cr Cassidy responds to that, calling it a “thought bubble” and “silly policy on the fly.” He says if there is some design work that’s been done (which there must be for the Lord Mayor to know all the parking would have to go), he should share that and work with the local councillor, instead of using the opportunity to make a petty political point.
The Cross-River Rail team is putting in a zebra crossing in Fairfield on Cr Johnston’s request. A council road but for some reason Council can’t be bothered providing the infrastructure, and so the team building Cross-River Rail (which is nowhere near Fairfield or Cr Johnston’s ward) is doing it. Cr Johnston lambasts the Council administration for their failure to deliver this infrastructure.
She has been fighting for that crossing for years. The Fairfield station upgrade is part of the Cross River Rail project, but the fight started long before any of that construction began.
I’m gonna be honest, I don’t understand why CRR is doing anything in Fairfield. I thought it was about connecting Boggo Rd to Central via the Gabba and Albert St.
I’m also not sure why what looks like an incredibly minor residential side-street would need a zebra crossing. The whole thing could be easily averted by reducing the speed limit to the 30 km/h this street should obviously be. Maybe change the road surface to brick instead of asphalt, and turn it into a sort of woonerf design.
Not that our car-brained council would ever do something like that.
Failing that, hopefully at least this crossing that’s being put in will be a wombat crossing?
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.
Thank you for your updates. These are very informative! Also glad to be living in Cr Johnston’s area she really is vocal about these neighbourhood issues and needs
Chair makes a ruling stating that all uses of the word “liar” or “lies” or any other conjugation thereof will be ruled out of order.
Cr Johnston is perplexed that a code-assessable development application in Northgate Ward is being brought before Council. “We’ve got so many important issues that we should be considering…This is a 5-storey area, this is a 5-storey development.”
She says bringing this to Council is a bit of “an own goal”, because it highlights how bad the development actually is. Just a 40 cm setback to the front boundary, in an area with significant road widening.
