Smallsman said a bus bridge — excluding other motor vehicles — could connect to the new Centennial Highway, passing $10 million business case completed by 2024 and future options identified.
The November 2022 Bellbowrie public meeting, chaired by Watson-Brown, found “two-thirds” of the 140 people who attended the forum Support for “Bus and Pedestrian/Bicycle Bridges”.
“This could be very important local infrastructure to solve many problems in the region,” Watson-Brown wrote on her website.
The council said their proposal to build a bridge for pedestrians and public transport did not have the support of residents on either side of the river.
“As a result, there are no plans to move forward with bridge projects in these communities,” said Transportation Commission Chairman Ryan Murphy.
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Bailey said the proposed Bellbowrie-Centenary Suburbs bridge had not been well received.
“What we need to see is a greater focus on bridge intersections that do exist,” he said.
However, he questioned the council’s progress in replicating the council’s Walter Taylor Bridge in Indooroopilly, which has been a traffic nightmare since 2007.
“We have a drive across the Brisbane River at Walter Taylor. It’s basically a drive across the Brisbane River between the Centenary Bridge and the CBD,” Bailey said.
The RACQ’s head of public policy, Dr Michael Kane, said new car bridges were “not a priority” and the RACQ appreciated the shift to green bridges since its inception Brisbane Bridging Survey 2017.
But Kane said the city needed a western bypass motorway link to match the eastern Gateway motorway.
“How can you have a major international city with only one major outer ring road that only involves one side of the city?” he said.
Kane wants plans to begin connecting the Centennial Expressway to the Northwest Transportation Corridor within five years.
