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.

It's better parked than most cars I've seen along there, with room to get past without any fear of being doored. It's not ideal but I give it a pass.

It's not legally a bike lane either because it isn't marked correctly (a painted white bike symbol isn't enough), but regardless, any bike lane that allows parking is a bike lane in name only.

Cr Collier moves a motion to reallocate all funding for the Living in Brisbane newsletter to the Pathways out of Homelessness program for the remainder of the year. Voted down of course.

Cr Massey:

It's clear the St Lucia to West End bridge is going to disappear

Council says 'Yeah we want to do it, but now we need the other levels'

Please don't listen when they say our promise was only $550 million. They talked about five bridges, the delivery should be five bridges.

There were kazoos. You missed the kazoos!

Petition to replace the lord's prayer with councillors playing Waltzing Matilda on kazoos

Cr Johnston is being especially fiery today, butting heads with the Chair multiple times. She was formally reprimanded multiple times and in turn she dissented against his rulings.

"Mr Chairman, you are a grub and I dissent in your ruling".

LNP members calling for her to be removed from the meeting but so far the Chair has resisted.

Signs that have a "reasonable likeness" to standard signs are covered under s316: https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/sl-2009-0194#sec.316

Number in a red circle is likely enough for it to be considered official, but yeah I would like to see it challenged.

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.

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.

On this street: https://www.google.com/maps/@-27.5098525,153.0274775,3a,75y,167.74h,73.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sIeP20QNhtfFQD3DT1KWeDw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

cOaLiTiOn Of ChAoS

Ugh. Might need to turn this into a drinking game to make it through this meeting.

Julia Dixon, Senior Policy Advisor at Property Council of Australia. She'll fit right in.

Kind of copied their logo too

https://i.imgur.com/47z85kF.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/G3l7wKJ.png

Just watched this and ... just wow. I'm left equal parts confused and enraged about it all. Cr Johnston's rant was epic and Cr Massey did pretty well considering she was blindsided by it.

I can access it now and just downloaded it.

Cr Mackay continues to show disrespect to Cr Johnston, this time by blowing raspberries at her. The chair called the behaviour out but not the councillor specifically ("whoever made that noise ...") but it was very obviously him. He's an embarrassment.

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.

I’m so screwed. 6 times in the last 5 minutes.

All of the LNP minions are saying it now

Fox got blocked after that :)

I've ridden with Mark Bailey before and he rides FAST. His PR for the Goodwill Bridge is 44km/h with 33 km/h average, and consistently well above 20km/h average for most of his rides. I don't think you can wave all that away as a GPS glitch.

I haven't really ventured outside this community yet. Guess I should have a look around.