It's official: BRISBANE is THE WORST!

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The city of Brisbane, Australia, is a great place, but it's not perfect. Recent reports crowned Brisbane the worst city in Australia based on two different issues. Watch this video to find out what they were, and if things are likely to get any better!

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0:00 - Brisbane is the worst city for two things!
2:50 - Plans for change?
6:04 - Some problems and challenges
8:33 - What about active transport?
8:54 - Any hope for Brisbane?

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[mkphotofilm]

As a person raised in this city, I've gotta say, it's lost all what made it good; affordability, better traffic than Syd/Melbourne ....all without the better restaurants and infrastructure.

[Mercedeseva]

You aren't stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic lol....

[mklives]

From a mathematical perspective: nothing will solve the traffic congestion problem except a radical, new, extensive (comprehensive), high-frequency rail or subway system, possibly combined with disincentives for driving. 
All other measures are stopgap, makeshift, temporary measures that will have limited-to-negligible impact. The notion that improving roads here and there, improving public transport here and there, encouraging biking here and there, can fix the current congestion and cope with increasing congestion with a rapidly increasing population is mathematically absurd. In other words: absolutely impossible. It is extremely depressing that today's politicians continue to spout out nonsense like this.
The only solution is a completely off-grid, comprehensive, high-frequency public transport system. The convenience of such a system (the time/money saved compared to driving) would be a disincentive for driving in itself, as it is in Tokyo.

[jiggle_counter]

I find that the conversation usually goes like this:

People living in Brisbane for decades: “There’s too many bloody people from Sydney and Melbourne coming here. Brisbane used to be great, now it takes too long to get anywhere, there's no parking, everything is a competition therefore the prices have shot up”

People who came from Sydney and Melbourne: “How come it takes ages to get anywhere? How come you guys don’t have million-dollar transport projects like Sydney and Melbourne have? You should've voted for Liberals/Nationals”

Politicians: “Look, I only care about votes, so I’m gonna read off some biased analysis that was looking for something instead of generalised research, repeat the echo chamber that is your anger and public opinions from facebook, blame the current government for city life, say what I would do if you vote me in, get into parliament, do nothing about Brisbane, instead open up backdoor tax holes for giant corporations that will give me the golden escalator to becoming a director of something… Then later on, good luck with Brisbane or whatever, I don’t give a fuck anymore, I’m a rich oil/gas director living in NOT Brisbane, I've left politics, why don't you ask your local MP who's doing the exact same shit as me"

[kimlo]

Have to agree on public transport being absolute rubbish. If you're not near a train route it's pointless and even the parking lot at a lot of train stations have no parking.

The infrastructure is awful and just encourages car use at every turn

[lucnederhof]

I live in Paddington which is a 50 minute walk, a 15 minute bike ride, and a 40 minute bus trip into the CBD... Legitimately what the fuck happened there

[damonroberts]

Yeah, no surprises here. The rot started back in the 1960s when they consciously chose to plan Brisbane's development after car-centric Los Angeles. I'm sure it seemed very "modern" at the time. Like Los Angeles we also have a seasonal temperature inversion which keeps the polluted air trapped over the city as an ugly brown haze.

[berniemckinley]

12 most congested city in the world ? And the Philippines, half of Asia wasn’t on the list ? Weird

[Spoonfed]

The experiment was done, a heap of people don't need to commute for work. Adjust policy to either incentivise or penalise companies when it's not necessary. 🤷‍♂️

[graemehyndman]

Brisbane is rotting, I know I've watched since the 80's, & we are paying through the eye teeth for an Olympics that most people hate.massive increase in speed/traffic fines, rates/rego, taxes, sky rocketing rents due to unscrupulous scumbags taking advantage of the system. Most of the houses in logan are rentals that are run-down peices of garbage that the owners can't afford to maintain, yet happy to pass on the high rent to ppl, injustice, injustice, injustice, not to mention a haven for druggies.

[carbybirett]

Immigration numbers are way too high. We need a 4 year complete immigration stop and then some sensible numbers. This problem affects other cities
as well, also smaller ones.

[LukeXMV]

The town planning in Australia is really poor. Most based on the Anglo-American designs of the 1950s that proved to be disastrous.

[TheDoctor]

I've lived in Brisbane for most of my life and, as a non-driver, public transport has long been my friend. I grew up in Camp Hill where bus services are good, and I couldn't understand why there were people elsewhere in Brisbane who grumbled about how bad it was.
In the last 9-10 years, I've lived in Carina/Carindale (on Meadowlands Road), with the need to sometimes go to work over at Manly or Birkdale, and I have become one of the grumblers. The bus service from here to there is absolutely lousy (I have to go to Cannon Hill to get a train, essentially going backwards to go forwards), and I can see this isn't the only place where there needs to be vast improvement. And surely it shouldn't be that difficult. If they're getting new buses, use them in the suburbs where there's hardly any service.

[andrewst]

Traffic light technology today in Australia is more like 1950s than 1980/90s compared to European cities

[SangNguyen-knot]

I live in Brisbane a lot of crime . Paying very high tax paying very high bills. Paying very high insurance the cost of living is skyrocket. Working with a sore back still can’t even put food on the table

[dimidimiuser]

For those who finish work after midnight there no public transport available.

[Williammmmm]

Then I try to commute to work (at the city) on my motorbike and all the motorbike parking spots are packed with bikes, leaving no choice but to park on the footpath in a way that does not harm pedestrians, just to get a parking ticket every now and then, which is cheaper than paying for parking on my car. And yes, as you can imagine, I live in the areas that has bad public transport...so no, no way I'm catching a bus and a train and another train if I can just ride my motorbike for 25 min.

[CA]

Msss urbanisation is the only economic stimulus the corporate political class has left... Meanwhile the wealthiest few percent of Australians are profiting from this...

[davidherber]

They better do something before the olympics. The Mayor's solution does nothing for people outside that 8km radius. How about giving people an incentive to take public transport or use bike routes or scooter routes to get cars off the roads.

[sanitygone-ly]

Adrian Schrinner talks about more active transport investment but I guarantee most of it will be painted bike lanes with 60km/h traffic. No one is going to bike on a thin painted strip of the road. Proper protected bicycle lanes are needed.