Q1: If elected I will actively support safe routes to schools
Yes
Q2: If elected I will actively support local streets not through streets – to discourage rat running and make neighbourhoods safer and more liveable.
Yes
Q3: If elected I will actively support provision of protected space on main roads for people who ride bicycles.
Yes
Q4: If elected I will actively support a connected and direct bikeway network
Yes
Q5: If elected I will actively support 30km/h speed limits on neighbourhood streets – to make neighbourhood streets safer for children, the elderly and pets.
Yes
Q6: If elected I will actively support bicycle friendly suburban centres to allow people to shop and go out to dinner by bike.
Yes
Q7: If elected I will actively support the Brisbane CBD Protected Bike Grid which would allow people to get around the CBD safely and conveniently by bicycle.
Yes
Q8: If elected I will actively support a full time protected bikeway on Sylvan Rd Toowong.
Yes
Q9: If elected I will actively support removing Bicycle Awareness Zones from the BCC bicycle kilometre count.
Yes
Q10: Please list at least one project or initiative that you will actively support to improve cycling in your ward.
We have a comprehensive plan to introduce dual-carriageway barrier-separated bike lanes to connect Logan Road to the Goodwill Bridge along Stanley Street, and single-direction barrier separated bike lanes along both sides of Annerley Road all the way to the Green Bridge at Dutton Park. This is a key priority for me. I ride through this intersection every day and believe that council’s failure to fix this black spot borders on criminal negligence.
Q11: Any other comments you would like to make
I’m supportive of 30km/h speed limits on residential streets as a long-term goal (i.e. within the next three or four years). However if elected, I will initially only push for 40km/h limits, as I believe significant sudden speed limit reductions are likely to be rejected and ignored by many drivers. The goal is to promote long-term cultural change in motorists’ behaviour, and the weight of evidence from other cities tends to suggest that gradually stepping down speed limits is more likely to win public acceptance.
That said, there are many residential streets in the Gabba Ward that already have 40km/h limits, and I will push immediately for 30km/h limits in these streets.