 Lord Mayor Campbell Newman is getting on with the job of easing
traffic congestion with a $20 million road project in Brisbane’s
southwest.
The Lord Mayor today joined his Jamboree Ward representative Matthew
Bourke and Richlands representative Andrew Nguyen to solve a traffic
nightmare near an industrial estate at Sumner Park.
The Sumner Park Industrial Estate has two entrances and just one exit,
at the intersection of Spine St and Sumner Rd, which causes traffic
dramas during peak hour.
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This one by Sarah, from The Voice of Today's Apathetic Youth . Cross-posted by permission.
Campbell Newman is whinging
loudly about what he has labelled a smear campaign, after Brisbane
voters were called by a WA-based polling company and asked questions
that included whether they thought Newman was a hypocrite for
trumpeting his climate-change 'policies' while continuing to drive a V8
car.
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Cross-posted with permission from Derek Barry's Woolly Days in Wooloowin
Brisbane is getting ready to vote again just four months after the
federal election. This time it is the Brisbane city council elections
which are scheduled for Saturday 15 March. Brisbane currently has a
Labor dominated council in its 26 wards but has a Liberal mayor. I live
in the eastern ward of Hamilton
which has 27,000 registered voters. With the ward containing blue-rinse
suburbs of Ascot, Clayfield and the eponymous Hamilton, it has long
been considered a safe Liberal seat.
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 Under Greg Rowell and Labor, Brisbane commuters will benefit from a
dramatic boost to public transport that will see new and upgraded bus
services rolled out across Brisbane.
As Lord Mayor, Greg Rowell would allocate funds in the budget for 20 High Frequency Bus Routes.
Labor’s practical plan would allow an extra 19 million residents to take fast, frequent, reliable bus trips each year.
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Campbell Newman’s being urged not to gamble Brisbane’s water future in a populist bid to woo residents a few weeks from the ballot box.
Brisbane can’t afford to risk wasting water.
“It may be popular to offer Brisbane a chance to splash around more water but it’s a gamble,” Labor Lord Mayoral Candidate Greg Rowell said.
“The fact is it took just 2 years for our dams to plunge 21 per cent (August 2005 to August 2007 - QWC).
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