Protest to get Brisbane City Council to reallocate one lane of the Story Bridge as a pedestrian & cyclist shared path, while the dedicated paths are closed indefinitely for maintenance.
Protest to get Brisbane City Council to reallocate one lane of the Story Bridge as a pedestrian & cyclist shared path, while the dedicated paths are closed indefinitely for maintenance.
14/06/2025
@australia there have been a series of lies from our Lord Mayor and his council over this. Starting by blaming the pedestrian path closure on ex-cyclone Alfred, and then saying they needed a couple of days for inspections before it could be opened. We know now that the closure had nothing to do with Alfred, and was in fact damage that they've known about since at least 2016.
We haven't been given any timeline for when it will reopen, so our best guess is not until next year.
@australia they claim it's impossible to close a lane because one lane wouldn't be wide enough, so they would need two. If that were true, then fine; the answer is to do that, close two lanes. There'd still be 4 for cars. But it's not true. In fact, while the pedestrian paths on the bridge are wider than what would be left of one lane after water-filled safety barriers are installed, the paths on the on-ramps up to the bridge are *already* narrower than that.
@australia they lied to the press and public by claiming the protests are linked to the Greens, that they're related to Extinction Rebellion, and that they're illegal. None are true. Every protest has gone through the accepted process of declaring intent. Instead, BCC & QPS have wasted their resources fighting the protests in court with multiple expensive Silks, against the self-repped organisers. And they lie, inventing nonsensical security risks, in order to get the court to block the protest.
@australia (the protest pictured here is a different one to the one that BCC and QPS lied to get blocked. A weekend march through the CBD streets that make up the official detour. Instead of the originally-planned peak-hour block of the Story Bridge)
Y'all should do daily Critical Mass rides across the bridge until the mayor gets the point.
@grue not quite that, but they have been doing a daily bike bus in the morning to help get cyclists across safely
@australia sorry, I tried posting this to the Brisbane community, but for some reason that has failed to federate to my Mastodon instance since May. I wonder if somehow my interacting with Pixelfed has somehow caused that? It was working fine until that point...
I learned the other day that apparently, if you're banned from a community Lemmy automatically unsubscribes you from it, and if you're the only user in your instance that had been subscribed to it then it stops federating. Maybe that's what happened?
@grue no mention of me being banned in the modlog that I can see, and it still shows as me following when I view it
Maybe it's a weird Lemmy ⇔ Mastodon compatibility thing, then? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@grue maybe. The Australia community still works though, adding to confusion.