It has been announced by the Lord Mayor that the Downfall Creek Bikeway will be completed where is passes under Sandgate Road and North Coast Line. The thing is this is not an announcement but a reannouncement of a project that was cut after the floods. Now you may say so what the flood were bad. I agree the floods were bad and many parts of Brisbane were badly damaged but according to the Brisbane times the council only came out of budget by $100 000. This was due to the state and Federal funds that were channelled towards the council. Yes that is right $100 000 dollars short is the reason why an important link between Binda and Vaginia Station was not made. Now there is no doubt that this link will cost more than $100 000 but there are other projects (mainly road) that still proceeded. There was also new projects that were announced eg $2 million for WiFi in parks.
Now what is going to have a longer lasting good for the people of Brisbane, a connected network of bikeways or David being able to see what John had for breakfast on facebook?
Just to prove that they used the floods as the reason here is a screen dump from the councils website as of 14.01.2012
http://www.couriermail.com.au/questnews/north/final-stage-of-bikepath-underway/story-fn8m0rl4-1226243737629
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/councils-flood-cost-sparks-political-brawl-20110913-1k7m0.html
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