Before we get too far, let me make a confession.
I drive a car a few days a week to get the 16km from my home in Albany Creek to my office in Nundah. I also ride my bike to work on the other days and barely drive at all on the weekends unless I have to.
So I am no saint and admit that I am just as much to blame as others who clog up our roads some of the time.
But that time on the road (whether in a car or on my bicycle) has provided me with the stunning realisation that we have some problems with our infrastructure in our beautiful city on the river. And those problems mainly revolve around traffic.
Yes you are saying. We need better infrastructure to deal with this traffic.
Well this may come as a surprise to you but from my seat in the car or on the bike we have PLENTY of infrastructure for vehicles. Seems that there is infrastructure for vehicles running North, South, East and West. Also some running South East, South West, North East and North West.
The problem as I see it is that there is simply too many cars for this infrastructure to cope with.
I believe it is cars, not infrastructure that is the problem. Additional road infrastructure is a band aid fix and it has been proven time and time again all around the world that ultimately these "fixes" ultimately end up just as congested as the previous "problem".
It is time to start to talk about proper alternatives.
Alternatives that wont be popular to those who refuse to entertain anything more complex than walking out to their garage and starting up the engine of their car.
I would also like to use this blog for people to communicate issues that they see in their community. I am a simple bloke. Get up and ride my bike for training for my racing or to commute to work or sometimes jump in the car and head to work. Same route every day. Therefore I dont get to see the messes in other neighbourhoods. Tell me what you see.
More soon.
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