Brisbane

A motion brought off the table by the LNP which was first brought by former Councillor Sriranganathan. It was to look at putting bike lanes on Vulture Street and Montague Road, noting that this might require removing on-street parking.

Cr Johnston is absolutely outraged that this motion is being brought off the table by the LNP without Cr Massey, the successor to Cr Sriranganathan and the local Councillor to the relevant area, being given any notice.

Cr Massey is angry that the LNP is voting this motion down, saying that they are using the weak excuse that the State Government is doing a project on Montague Rd (but not anywhere on Vulture St) which might include stuff like this. She points out that this is meant to be a very high-density area, with a population growing enormously thanks to the LNP's proposed upzoning, and that these are busy roads where improved infrastructure is important to a "clean, green, and sustainable Brisbane".

Cr Adams rejects this, and says the project "is now null and void", because they have already budgeted for a study into connectivity in the area. She says that Vulture Street isn't part of the Montague Rd study, and therefore it might be part of some future study, and therefore the original motion is null and void. This claim makes no sense. To simultaneously call a motion about bike lanes on Vulture St and Montague Rd "null and void" because there's money for a study into bike lanes on one of those roads is a pretty blatant mistruth.