For too long the Lord Mayor has neglected community facilities in Annerley. Footpaths are crumbling or missing, the Annerley Junction shopping strip has been overlooked and the popular Annerley Library is too small and only open part time. There is so much more Council should be doing to support community life in Annerley, one of Brisbane’s oldest and largest suburbs.
A petition has been submitted to Council calling on Council to urgently invest funding into community facilities in Annerley to make it a more inclusive and creative place to live and work by:
1. Upgrading and renovating Annerley Library;
2. Undertaking a Village Precinct Project to revitalise the Annerley Junction shopping precinct including lighting, street art, new footpaths and landscaping; and
3. Revitalising Annerley Hall next to the Library to create a more welcoming and inclusive community space.
10 Point Plan to Improve Road Safety for Ipswich Rd, Annerley
For too long the LNP Council Administration has neglected road safety issues in Annerley. Their inaction has seen unnecessary deaths, significant injuries, traffic congestion and a lack of amenity for local residents who must use Ipswich Rd and its feeder streets. The lack of planning and investment for the southern suburbs transport infrastructure is wrong and must change. With Annerley being split between two wards along Ipswich Rd, Moorooka and Tennyson, both Cr Griffiths and I will work with residents over coming months to ensure pedestrian, cycling, public transport and traffic safety in Annerley is improved. Over the past five years there have been 95 recorded crashes, 9 involving pedestrians in the survey area (Ipswich Rd between Annerley Rd and Cracknell Rd) and one death on Venner Rd. Ipswich Rd is a well-known state-wide top five accident hot spot. Traffic volumes are forecast to almost double over the next 12 years to move than 100,000 vehicles per day. But yet again Council has let Annerley residents down by refusing to take action. This LNP Council has undertaken a number of reviews, including Move Safe and a Pedestrian Road Safety Review but has not acted on the recommendations. Other promised reviews are being kept secret.
Over the past decade I’ve attended numerous local meetings, spoken with the schools, residents and shop keepers, organised petitions and moved motions in Council and still, the Lord Mayor and his team have failed to act. I will not give up but I need your help to remind them how important it is to make Ipswich Rd, Annerley safer for local residents.
10 Point Plan to Improve Road Safety for Ipswich Rd, Annerley
1. Undertake a feasibility study for a tunnel bypass under Ipswich Rd to reclaim surface streets for local traffic movements, better public transport, cycling and pedestrian infrastructure;
2. Reduce the speed limit through Annerley Junction shopping precinct to 40kms;
3. Install flashing school zone signage to protect JPSS children crossing the road;
4. Upgrade the intersection of Ipswich Rd, Venner Rd and Waterton St to include proper signalised turning lanes;
5. Install a green arrow or zebra crossing at the intersection of Ekibin Rd and Ipswich Rd;
6. Undertake a Village Precinct Project in Annerley Junction to improve amenity, safety and revitalise community spaces;
7. Build new footpath, lighting and cycling infrastructure to promote active travel;
8. Deliver better local bus services through Annerley;
9. Deliver the promised Venner Rd Freight Bypass to take trucks off Venner Rd;
10. Deliver traffic calming solutions in Annerley side streets to discourage rat running.
Ipswich Rd divides our community and Council must take action before another life is lost.