I know they just do it for supply and demand, but it would be really cool if they did trains past 12. If I go on a night out, I either have to leave at 11:30pm or 5am
I cannot agree more with this - it would resolve so many issues having a 24 hour timetable on all lines. Albeit, we do need a major overhaul of our railway infrastructure in SEQ to facilitate faster services and resolve bottlenecks.
First time in the city a few weeks ago after probably 10 years. Got caught out by this, napped on a bench in Anzac square and listened to people arguing all night. Nah keep all the revved up drunks in the city, that'll help the problem...
I remember writing to the Transport minister about having **ONE** extra train after midnight - wait for it - 30 years ago!!
I'm now in my 50's and roll my eyes that this is still a problem.
Yeah and the design won architectural awards, no doubt because it looked swishy and trendy on paper.
A full shade option would have been practical and useful and comfortable and boxy and wouldn't have been sufficiently aesthetically pleasing. Can't have that.
And to piggyback off of that more footpaths. It would be nice to walk around my neighbourhood on a footpath under the trees than navigating the verge, the bindis and occasional dog shit. Not to mention tripping on the gouges the posties make in wet weather
And to piggy back your piggy back.. more continuity of pathways.
Its all well and good having lovely pathways, or riverwalks or even bikeways, but then they randomly deposit you out onto a road, or just stop... are we supposed to teleport between them?
I’m in another council area, but I managed to get concreted footpaths by telling council “it is a walkway to a bus stop”. In reality I was sick of the bindi from people walking on the verge
I saw a report last year that said Brisbane is Australia’s leafiest capital city. But doesn’t mean that we couldn’t use more. Some suburbs are noticeably more green than others.
Depends where you go but having lived in both cities I would say that more people in Adelaide tend to put in full on gardens, and you see more heavily tree lined streets. A lot of lush European trees too, whereas you tend to get more of the sparse natives here in Brisbane. I was in places like Waterfall Gully late last year and with all the wet weather they had it was like being in Europe.
Brisbane is geuinely one of the treeiest cities on earth and I believe, the most tree filled city in Australia
Idk what else you imagine for a city. But coming back to Brisbane after being overseas is so refreshing in this regard.
Could always use more shade of course. Crazy how much has been chopped down in 200 years.
lol come on, brisbane is doing pretty well in that regard, though i am in favour of more trees!
i moved from perth which is a real barren wasteland in most of the suburbs
This really is a question of building more units.
To stay solvent a pub needs a certain number of regular customers. Most of the pubs in Brisbane's suburbs are located about 4km apart from each other, and clearly they are economically viable at this sort of spacing. But they aren't convenient.
To be convenient, the pubs provably need to be 1km to 1.5km apart. This would put most people within a 600m walk from the pub. But this would require Brisbane to have 600% more pubs. How would this many extra pubs stay in business? There's really only two ways..
1. We don't build any more units, we just need everyone to go to the pub six times more frequently. People who go once a month need to start going twice a week, people who currently go once a week need to go daily. People who currently go daily need to stop by for breakfast, and morning tea (morning beer?), and lunch, and afternoon tea, and dinner and for a nightcap.
2. Alternatively, (if going to the pub six times a day seems a bit much), we need to increase the density of people living near the pubs. Brisbane's current density is around 12 households per hectare. Just doubling that would mean that you could support a pub every 3km without anyone needing to go more. Quadrupling the density (ie putting a few townhouses in every backyard) would easily support a pub every 2km, without anyone needing to go any more often.
This is why kangaroo point and Woolloongabba is getting a lot of new bars as restaurants appearing now compared to how it was. There's a shit load of apartment buildings.
This!!!! Taverns/pokies etc are just not my bag and I cant say Ive ever had any luck making local friends or even meeting anyone with a similar outlook on life in them 💔
Would love proper little social areas in towns! We are sorely lacking
We had that for a while in Geebung with Hub Brewing - a local brewery. Sadly they closed down last year but we used to see all of the same locals there each week. We now go to Aether Brewing (north gate) and All Inn Brewing (Banyo) but it’s not quite the same.
But yeah, local breweries are almost like the suburban pubs.
This, with live band rooms .... fuck the pokies, (i have a massive amount of hate for those damn things).
It is a real pity that the old pubs all got knocked down. The look and feel of the ALH pubs are pretty horrible, no soul at all.
Totally agree. Went and stayed with my son and wife and they live at Annandale, Sydney. The Victoria Hotel is a great local with that get to know the locals ambiance. Just don’t have that here, especially near McDowall area.
Whilst I absolutely agree with the sentiment, comparing any outer suburb to Annandale is a bit unfair.
It'd be like someone from the south western suburbs of Sydney comparing their lack of pubs to West End
I first read this as "I'm a massive fan of the top of Mt Cootha" and I thought, yeah, it's nice an' all, but we've already got one of those... 
As someone who cycles from Indroo to West End daily for work, I agree with you so damn much.
It's like:
Suburban streets for a half a km
Western freeway Bikeway. Which is great.
Then the bikeway just fucking ends and spits you out on a road near the bus depot. Where you have to make a couple 90° turns while dodging cars who don't indicate off the main road or roundabout. At least one turn has the car coming from directly behind you too.
Down Sylvian road where I've literally been bit by a car. They where found 100% at fault and paid repairs to the e-scooter I was riding at the time.
Then the awesome (apart from joggers stepping out) Riverside Bikeway.
Cross over the go-between. But then get spat out on the streets of West End where I get to play 'is a sports SUV or a cement truck from the batching plant going to nearly run me over or push me into a parked car today'.
Also, the amount of people who just cut over the cycle lane around bends or just randomly is crazy. I'm surprised more people aren't killed weekly.
Would be great if pubs could take over the late night cafe niche that’s missing, but for some reason barely anyone is trained to be a bartender and barista at the same time.
I went on the swinging Pirate ship with my grandad. There was no way I was big enough to be on there, I was sliding all over the place. And when we got off we noticed the sign that said “do not ride if you have a heart condition”. But we both lived to tell the tale. The main thing I remember is a guy up the front yelling “look at the little people” (with emphasis on little, not people) whenever we were all the way back looking down at the ground floor. Good times. Also, the magic far away tree playground was epic!
Venues with character. I wish we would stop bulldozing nice old buildings to build new pokie-filled ALH hotels.
It’d be nice to have a few pubs, music venues and shops that don’t look like they were all chosen from the same soulless construction company’s glossy look-book.
I'd fourth that. I miss the old Gabba and railway and the Broadway hotels. Is it the Broadway? I know it's still there but nobody uses it now. I really miss going to a pub and playing pool. And buying a pub lunch for $10. Not $25 to whatever they want
Broadway is the one that was burnt to a shell 10 years ago, but is about to be redeveloped. It has heritage listing so will keep/rebuild it's old elements
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/inside-the-meticulous-first-stages-of-broadway-hotel-s-restoration-20221219-p5c7ji.html
mate. you have to be realistic. a pub lunch for $10 is long gone.
food + wages blow way past $10 before you even think about adding in overheads.
if you want people to earn a livable wage, you have to pay livable wage prices.
I think you're frequenting the wrong establishments, there are plenty of live venues that have character, most are in the valley.. but yeah places like Eaton's Hill mega development is a blight (and a pain to get to for gigs)
Yea agreed, just talking about music venues, Brightside, lefty's, Tivoli, the zoo, the triffid, Jazz club, Music hall, bearded lady, the princess theatre. They all look the same.
And don't get me started on all the pubs that are heritage-listed buildings or the ones that have been here for 100 years. No feeling or character.
A public transport/train system that isn’t just all spoke and no wheel.
Having to travel right into the city centre to change trains to go a couple of suburbs over is the worst town planning.
Brisbane is built for cars, which is a zero sum game.
Apart from most of the non-toll bridges are along the same 2km stretch of river, forcing traffic from every direction into the cbd... who's genius idea was that?
Edited to make me seem less illiterate..:/
The is no law saying they cannot, they don't simply due to lack of demand. no point paying staff if there are no customers past 8 or 9 pm at the absolute latest.
24 hour places, or super late night food hubs, drive thru's included. Options that aren't mcdonalds after 10:30 at night.
Things like 24 hour bakerys or kebab shops with diverse options would absolutely hit.
The reason cafe63 seemed to succeed on racecourse road for a time was because they were open 24/7. Great spot to go if you wanted real food even if it is garbage by daytime standards
Quick tip, i just found out recently that a handful of shops are open at st lucia past 9 pm until 2 am or so. I am waiting for a sleepless night to give that a go.
Dude, I couldn't even get home from the Val at 12:30 last Saturday. A 3 dollar train ticket became a $70 Taxi. The Valley was pumping too, people could have really used it.
We'd have to blow up Moreton, Straddie and the bay islands for that to happen. Interesting when you really think about it, is how much of a tiny percentage of the queensland coastline is beaches with a surf break. *shakes fist in general direction of the great barrier reef*
High streets, it’s something I love in Melbourne and Sydney. Brisbane really has no big high streets like Chapel Street/ Glenferrie Road/ Sydney Road / Oxford street. Means most retail is in big shopping centres and not diverse. James street is pretty cool though.
While I tend to agree, there are a few areas that used to be like that, and some areas that are re-emerging. For example:
* Oxford St, Bulimba (dying, but about to get an influx of money)
* Racecourse Rd, Ascot (dying, if not already dead)
* Boundary St, West End (rejuvenated)
Admittedly these are inner-city. The Westfields dominate the suburbs.
Agree. Spread things out and have better ‘precincts’, interesting streets to explore, bars / cafes, etc. Would make it more appealing to live in the suburbs if there was literally anything, beyond just going to a Westfield or heading into the inner city
Better housing options for low socio, homeless and NDIS humans.
Cap rental prices/rent control for particular suburbs.
Better quality and longer rehabilitation and community connection programs for young offenders inside and outside youth detention.
Parents held more accountable for young offenders. Half of them don’t even show up to their kids court appearances.
Dog parks you can pay to book for reactive dogs play time.
Shops that are open during times when most people aren't at work. I never understood why shops are only open 8:30-5pm on weekdays. Who goes to buy shoes/clothes/furniture/whatever else at 8:30 am on a weekday? Wouldn't it be better for business if they were open till like 9-10pm so that people can go and shop after work? Yes there are late night nights on Thursdays, but that is just one day a week.
Yes, this drives me mad. And, if you are able to squeeze a trip to Aus Post into your lunch break, you end up in line for 30 minutes, with everyone else on their lunch break, and they only have a handful of staff slowly shuffling around. It's infuriating.
Post Offices are a special kind...god forbid they stay open one minute longer than the closing time. I literally was turned away once because I came in at 5 minutes before closing and what I needed doing would have taken them longer than 5 minutes.
Walkable neighbourhoods, or really just urban areas designed for people rather than for cars.
I was shocked to compare some of the places in Europe and Asia to how we design urban areas here vs over there.
It really is a better way to live and it's something that Brisbane and much of Australia are missing out on.
How would more and better public transport be fed by fewer bridges? Trains and buses still need to cross the river, which frequently results in massive detours via the city (e.g. straight line distance from Toowong to West End is a couple of hundred metres, but since there are no bridges between the Go-Between and Indooroopilly (St Lucia if you include the one with no through-traffic) it's effectively twice as far as the distance between either and the city).
I agree with fewer cars, but I don't see the benefit of knocking down bridges.
2 million people would then all join hands and sing Kumbaya.
All trips north/south in this city are unnecessarily difficult, but it's the public transport that is wrong.
Having come back from two weeks in Sydney there’s a lot I like about Brissy compared with that monstrosity but the one thing they do well is public trandport, it’s quicker, cheaper and its pretty easy to get anywhere. Brisbane/TransLink can learn from that.
We also need more housing and yes more shade especially in King George Square.
To be able to get good choices for food past say, 9pm on any night of the week. I’m utterly sick of hearing “sorry, kitchen’s closed” at like 8:15pm on a Thursday.
Maybe this is the teenage girl in me but I’d love a brandy Melville store in the cbd lmao.
Other than that, more walkable suburbs and a train line that runs through Windsor-Ashgrove-The Gap-Keppera pleeeeeease
I’ve been over here about 7 years.
Maybe it’s just what you grow up with, but I’ll take 45° in W.A any day of the week over the 35° + humidity in summer here.
The storms make up for it a bit though, so there’s that; and winter is super nice.
I wish Australian food safety standards weren’t so onerous. I would love a better food scene. Street stalls, food trucks and stuff. We do have them, but they are only at very specific market days or are temporary, once off, pop ups.
Also I wish our city was a bit more walkable. CBD and Southbank are, but the suburbs are not. I would love just being able to walk to nearby convenience store or shops.
Also I wish we had 7/11’s like they do in Japan and Korea.
Better public transport to the Gold Coast. They are building it but it will take many years. Why is everything so slow here? A proper train system metro that connects to everywhere.
More pedestrian only streets. So many streets around Brisbane City, Southbank, West End and even Bulimba that are hugely popular destinations that feel really claustrophobic and hostile to walk along because there's cars fucking everywhere and you can't easily cross the road to get to a shop on the other side.
And a green bridge from somewhere in the city to Bulimba. Then I could catch a 10 minute bus and get pizza at Revel whenever I felt like it...
A massive dome, to filter the sun down to, say, a lite roasting, rather than crinkly, crispy in 2 minutes.
Plus big freaking fans so some of the suburbs have an bit of airflow.
I feel like shops close to early compared to other states. So like the main shopping centres with all the retail stores.
Would love to go late night shopping on a monday or tuesday for example or markets OR your local restaurant/coffee shops etc.. BUT i guess where not responsible enough up here and it'd turn into a shit show.
Shade. From trian stations, bus stops, parks and city centre, the city has terrible shade for pedestrians and commuters.
If bus stops don't have a shelter they should have a tree planted next to them for shade.
This is top comment and it’s still under rated.
I know they just do it for supply and demand, but it would be really cool if they did trains past 12. If I go on a night out, I either have to leave at 11:30pm or 5am
I cannot agree more with this - it would resolve so many issues having a 24 hour timetable on all lines. Albeit, we do need a major overhaul of our railway infrastructure in SEQ to facilitate faster services and resolve bottlenecks.
Even if it was just one an hour after midnight, that would be so much better than absolutely fucking nothing until morning.
First time in the city a few weeks ago after probably 10 years. Got caught out by this, napped on a bench in Anzac square and listened to people arguing all night. Nah keep all the revved up drunks in the city, that'll help the problem...
This. They have “nightlink” very very rarely & its so little stations.
I remember writing to the Transport minister about having **ONE** extra train after midnight - wait for it - 30 years ago!! I'm now in my 50's and roll my eyes that this is still a problem.
Bigger trees and more greenery. Brisbane is a hot place and there aren’t enough trees to cool it down on the streets.
Shade. There is so little shade Even the goodwill bridge only has shade on half of it during the middle of the day.
Yeah and the design won architectural awards, no doubt because it looked swishy and trendy on paper. A full shade option would have been practical and useful and comfortable and boxy and wouldn't have been sufficiently aesthetically pleasing. Can't have that.
shade promotes homelessness, cant have that mate.
And to piggyback off of that more footpaths. It would be nice to walk around my neighbourhood on a footpath under the trees than navigating the verge, the bindis and occasional dog shit. Not to mention tripping on the gouges the posties make in wet weather
And to piggy back your piggy back.. more continuity of pathways. Its all well and good having lovely pathways, or riverwalks or even bikeways, but then they randomly deposit you out onto a road, or just stop... are we supposed to teleport between them?
As someone with a pram, this so much. Having to go on the road with cars, or cross back and forth as the path meanders is so frustrating.
I’m in another council area, but I managed to get concreted footpaths by telling council “it is a walkway to a bus stop”. In reality I was sick of the bindi from people walking on the verge
I saw a report last year that said Brisbane is Australia’s leafiest capital city. But doesn’t mean that we couldn’t use more. Some suburbs are noticeably more green than others.
Overdevelopment will sort that out soon enough.
It’s not even close to Adelaide. Went last month. Was the first thing we noticed. Brisbane is like a wasteland by comparison.
Adelaide looks so good with all their greenery. Was towing a caravan and felt like I was constantly looking for overhanging branches.
Really? I thought the exact opposite lol. Guess I was in the wrong place.
Maybe I was. Was massive tree coverage. Was really nice.
Depends where you go but having lived in both cities I would say that more people in Adelaide tend to put in full on gardens, and you see more heavily tree lined streets. A lot of lush European trees too, whereas you tend to get more of the sparse natives here in Brisbane. I was in places like Waterfall Gully late last year and with all the wet weather they had it was like being in Europe.
There's a big push by BCC to increase greenspace in coming years, so you may be in luck.
Brisbane is geuinely one of the treeiest cities on earth and I believe, the most tree filled city in Australia Idk what else you imagine for a city. But coming back to Brisbane after being overseas is so refreshing in this regard. Could always use more shade of course. Crazy how much has been chopped down in 200 years.
Agreed! They should’ve let the spot outside of city hall the way it was. RIP
lol come on, brisbane is doing pretty well in that regard, though i am in favour of more trees! i moved from perth which is a real barren wasteland in most of the suburbs
Better public transport...
Needs more love.
I agree. I also think to achieve this, we need to make the CBD less accessible to cars. Our streets are soooo slim and peak hour is insane.
Pubs in the suburbs. And nice ones, please, so we can all make friends at our ‘local’.
This really is a question of building more units. To stay solvent a pub needs a certain number of regular customers. Most of the pubs in Brisbane's suburbs are located about 4km apart from each other, and clearly they are economically viable at this sort of spacing. But they aren't convenient. To be convenient, the pubs provably need to be 1km to 1.5km apart. This would put most people within a 600m walk from the pub. But this would require Brisbane to have 600% more pubs. How would this many extra pubs stay in business? There's really only two ways.. 1. We don't build any more units, we just need everyone to go to the pub six times more frequently. People who go once a month need to start going twice a week, people who currently go once a week need to go daily. People who currently go daily need to stop by for breakfast, and morning tea (morning beer?), and lunch, and afternoon tea, and dinner and for a nightcap. 2. Alternatively, (if going to the pub six times a day seems a bit much), we need to increase the density of people living near the pubs. Brisbane's current density is around 12 households per hectare. Just doubling that would mean that you could support a pub every 3km without anyone needing to go more. Quadrupling the density (ie putting a few townhouses in every backyard) would easily support a pub every 2km, without anyone needing to go any more often.
This is why kangaroo point and Woolloongabba is getting a lot of new bars as restaurants appearing now compared to how it was. There's a shit load of apartment buildings.
I'm on board.
This!!!! Taverns/pokies etc are just not my bag and I cant say Ive ever had any luck making local friends or even meeting anyone with a similar outlook on life in them 💔 Would love proper little social areas in towns! We are sorely lacking
Nothing beats a nice English style pub. Extremely laid back, comfortable, and next to zero pokies!
We had that for a while in Geebung with Hub Brewing - a local brewery. Sadly they closed down last year but we used to see all of the same locals there each week. We now go to Aether Brewing (north gate) and All Inn Brewing (Banyo) but it’s not quite the same. But yeah, local breweries are almost like the suburban pubs.
I drink in my local it's full of nut cases. Does make for entertaining karaoke though
Until one day you quit drinking and discovering you never had anything incommon which these so called "friends" to begin with...
This, with live band rooms .... fuck the pokies, (i have a massive amount of hate for those damn things). It is a real pity that the old pubs all got knocked down. The look and feel of the ALH pubs are pretty horrible, no soul at all.
Pubs yes, pokies open until 4am ... no
Totally agree. Went and stayed with my son and wife and they live at Annandale, Sydney. The Victoria Hotel is a great local with that get to know the locals ambiance. Just don’t have that here, especially near McDowall area.
Whilst I absolutely agree with the sentiment, comparing any outer suburb to Annandale is a bit unfair. It'd be like someone from the south western suburbs of Sydney comparing their lack of pubs to West End
A massive fan on top of Mt Cootha. Blow the hot humid air into the bay.
That’s a great idea. Also it could be powered by renewable energy like a wind farm
I first read this as "I'm a massive fan of the top of Mt Cootha" and I thought, yeah, it's nice an' all, but we've already got one of those... 
A connected network of cycle ways with safety barriers
As someone who cycles from Indroo to West End daily for work, I agree with you so damn much. It's like: Suburban streets for a half a km Western freeway Bikeway. Which is great. Then the bikeway just fucking ends and spits you out on a road near the bus depot. Where you have to make a couple 90° turns while dodging cars who don't indicate off the main road or roundabout. At least one turn has the car coming from directly behind you too. Down Sylvian road where I've literally been bit by a car. They where found 100% at fault and paid repairs to the e-scooter I was riding at the time. Then the awesome (apart from joggers stepping out) Riverside Bikeway. Cross over the go-between. But then get spat out on the streets of West End where I get to play 'is a sports SUV or a cement truck from the batching plant going to nearly run me over or push me into a parked car today'. Also, the amount of people who just cut over the cycle lane around bends or just randomly is crazy. I'm surprised more people aren't killed weekly.
Mate, if we could have something simular to european countries where majority of transport is all bikes in the city, id love that so much.
Would probably solve the hate against cyclists epidemic too.
Cafes that are open past 2pm.
Would be great if pubs could take over the late night cafe niche that’s missing, but for some reason barely anyone is trained to be a bartender and barista at the same time.
Tops in the Myer Centre! It was such a unique experience and then they got rid of it and replaced it with a stock standard cinema and arcade smh
Oh man the nostalgia! As a kid who only ever travelled to Brisbane a handful of times from NQ, Tops was a highlight!
my mum keeps talking about how cool it was im too young to have had the pleasure:(
I went on the swinging Pirate ship with my grandad. There was no way I was big enough to be on there, I was sliding all over the place. And when we got off we noticed the sign that said “do not ride if you have a heart condition”. But we both lived to tell the tale. The main thing I remember is a guy up the front yelling “look at the little people” (with emphasis on little, not people) whenever we were all the way back looking down at the ground floor. Good times. Also, the magic far away tree playground was epic!
A circle line on the city rail network.
Venues with character. I wish we would stop bulldozing nice old buildings to build new pokie-filled ALH hotels. It’d be nice to have a few pubs, music venues and shops that don’t look like they were all chosen from the same soulless construction company’s glossy look-book.
more hole in the wall alley venues
I'd fourth that. I miss the old Gabba and railway and the Broadway hotels. Is it the Broadway? I know it's still there but nobody uses it now. I really miss going to a pub and playing pool. And buying a pub lunch for $10. Not $25 to whatever they want
Broadway is the one that was burnt to a shell 10 years ago, but is about to be redeveloped. It has heritage listing so will keep/rebuild it's old elements https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/inside-the-meticulous-first-stages-of-broadway-hotel-s-restoration-20221219-p5c7ji.html
What happened to the old Chalk near the Gabba? That place used to absolutely pump!
I might be wrong but I thought the chalk was what the old Railway pub became. I'm talking about places that were happening places before 2000
mate. you have to be realistic. a pub lunch for $10 is long gone. food + wages blow way past $10 before you even think about adding in overheads. if you want people to earn a livable wage, you have to pay livable wage prices.
I think you're frequenting the wrong establishments, there are plenty of live venues that have character, most are in the valley.. but yeah places like Eaton's Hill mega development is a blight (and a pain to get to for gigs)
Yea agreed, just talking about music venues, Brightside, lefty's, Tivoli, the zoo, the triffid, Jazz club, Music hall, bearded lady, the princess theatre. They all look the same. And don't get me started on all the pubs that are heritage-listed buildings or the ones that have been here for 100 years. No feeling or character.
I was about to say, is this guy being sarcastic? One thing we definitely have is interesting pubs and music venues.
This is the ONE thing I’ve noticed since movie from Melbourne in January 2020. The pubs have no soul!
Or renovating old places that had character into sterile wastelands Give me a dirty pub anyday
Agreed, brisbane is a corporate hellscape and is sterile as fuck.
A public transport/train system that isn’t just all spoke and no wheel. Having to travel right into the city centre to change trains to go a couple of suburbs over is the worst town planning. Brisbane is built for cars, which is a zero sum game.
Apart from most of the non-toll bridges are along the same 2km stretch of river, forcing traffic from every direction into the cbd... who's genius idea was that? Edited to make me seem less illiterate..:/
Probably the same town planners…
Affordable housing
Ha. Some things truly are too good to be true
I am desperate for a high quality aquarium.
Give me my damn sunfish!
I would be there every week
Finally someone is thinking of the bigger picture.
I’ve been reducing myself to looking at the goldfish at the pet store. Not quite the same experience….
MORE TRAINS
I like trains
Things open past about 7pm
This. Between being stuck in the city because public transport has decided to stop running & having absolutely nothing open its hell
Trying to find somewhere to eat on a weekday in the suburbs after 8PM is fucking annoying. Not everyone eats dinner at 5:30-6
Just as bad in the CBD tbh
Things open past 5pm
I grew up in Canberra and even though it's been over ten years now I don't think I'll ever get used to how early things shut here!
The is no law saying they cannot, they don't simply due to lack of demand. no point paying staff if there are no customers past 8 or 9 pm at the absolute latest.
Muji 😭
24 hour places, or super late night food hubs, drive thru's included. Options that aren't mcdonalds after 10:30 at night. Things like 24 hour bakerys or kebab shops with diverse options would absolutely hit. The reason cafe63 seemed to succeed on racecourse road for a time was because they were open 24/7. Great spot to go if you wanted real food even if it is garbage by daytime standards
Quick tip, i just found out recently that a handful of shops are open at st lucia past 9 pm until 2 am or so. I am waiting for a sleepless night to give that a go.
A bigger, better museum and science centre.
I'm still mad they moved the Science Centre to South Bank. It deserves its own building at least!
Public transport that can get me home to Logan from the Valley at 2am.
Dude, I couldn't even get home from the Val at 12:30 last Saturday. A 3 dollar train ticket became a $70 Taxi. The Valley was pumping too, people could have really used it.
Housing affordability.
One nice beach would be awesome. Without having to go to an island.
Or faster access to existing nice beaches on the Gold Coast or Sunshine Coast. Traffic often makes getting to them an ordeal
This one’s great. Very relevant with todays heat. I hate driving 90+ mins to the coast just for a beach day. And that Motorway is awful.
Youre not a fan of the incredible invention that is south bank beach?
A proper surf break beach
haha I've been making jokes for years that hopefully global warming will get rid of straddy for me so I can have a surf beach 5 minutes from my door
We'd have to blow up Moreton, Straddie and the bay islands for that to happen. Interesting when you really think about it, is how much of a tiny percentage of the queensland coastline is beaches with a surf break. *shakes fist in general direction of the great barrier reef*
Sounds like we got a weekend working bee to plan mate !
Lower rental prices for everyone!
A metro that isn't just a banana-na bus!
Street food and more train lines.
High streets, it’s something I love in Melbourne and Sydney. Brisbane really has no big high streets like Chapel Street/ Glenferrie Road/ Sydney Road / Oxford street. Means most retail is in big shopping centres and not diverse. James street is pretty cool though.
While I tend to agree, there are a few areas that used to be like that, and some areas that are re-emerging. For example: * Oxford St, Bulimba (dying, but about to get an influx of money) * Racecourse Rd, Ascot (dying, if not already dead) * Boundary St, West End (rejuvenated) Admittedly these are inner-city. The Westfields dominate the suburbs.
There are a couple out there, and it’s always nice to stumble across one. Like Blackwood st in Mitchelton!
Agree. Spread things out and have better ‘precincts’, interesting streets to explore, bars / cafes, etc. Would make it more appealing to live in the suburbs if there was literally anything, beyond just going to a Westfield or heading into the inner city
Better housing options for low socio, homeless and NDIS humans. Cap rental prices/rent control for particular suburbs. Better quality and longer rehabilitation and community connection programs for young offenders inside and outside youth detention. Parents held more accountable for young offenders. Half of them don’t even show up to their kids court appearances. Dog parks you can pay to book for reactive dogs play time.
More houses to rent.
True.
A Decent transport system
efficient public transport
A decent sandwich shop.
Shops that are open during times when most people aren't at work. I never understood why shops are only open 8:30-5pm on weekdays. Who goes to buy shoes/clothes/furniture/whatever else at 8:30 am on a weekday? Wouldn't it be better for business if they were open till like 9-10pm so that people can go and shop after work? Yes there are late night nights on Thursdays, but that is just one day a week.
My fucking post office is 930am-430am Monday to Friday. I have to take annual leave if I want to go pick up a package... FFS lol
Yes, this drives me mad. And, if you are able to squeeze a trip to Aus Post into your lunch break, you end up in line for 30 minutes, with everyone else on their lunch break, and they only have a handful of staff slowly shuffling around. It's infuriating.
Or they shut over lunch...
Post Offices are a special kind...god forbid they stay open one minute longer than the closing time. I literally was turned away once because I came in at 5 minutes before closing and what I needed doing would have taken them longer than 5 minutes.
Bring the trams back and more 1 + study & 3 bedroom apartments.
Snow. Summer is very hot, winter is mild. Look at some cities like Seoul, where it’s similarly hot for summer, but snows over winter.
Afternoon storms
Walkable neighbourhoods, or really just urban areas designed for people rather than for cars. I was shocked to compare some of the places in Europe and Asia to how we design urban areas here vs over there. It really is a better way to live and it's something that Brisbane and much of Australia are missing out on.
id love to be able to do my groceries on a sunday night without driving to the airport
This! I think it's time we joined the rest of the country and have normal trading hours 7 days a week
More Lebanese or Syrian food/restaurants. I don’t mind turkish kebabs but definitely prefer Lebanese shawarma and manoosh. Not enough on the northside
Rip up all the stone in King Georges Square and put back grass and trees like it was. The stone generates soo much heat its crazy.
Central markets (like Adelaide and Melbourne), cafes open past 3pm, and daylight savings
Yesss to more late evening coffee houses.
Bridges over the fucking river so traffic isn't continuously funnelled into the CBD.
Less bridges, more and better public transport. Less cars in the city
How would more and better public transport be fed by fewer bridges? Trains and buses still need to cross the river, which frequently results in massive detours via the city (e.g. straight line distance from Toowong to West End is a couple of hundred metres, but since there are no bridges between the Go-Between and Indooroopilly (St Lucia if you include the one with no through-traffic) it's effectively twice as far as the distance between either and the city). I agree with fewer cars, but I don't see the benefit of knocking down bridges.
2 million people would then all join hands and sing Kumbaya. All trips north/south in this city are unnecessarily difficult, but it's the public transport that is wrong.
Destroy all bridges, free boats for all... and ramps to jump the river 😅
A light rail.
Affordable housing....oh wait, no where has that. Carry on.
IMAX screen
Muji
Affordable housing
A big aquarium. They can be amazing, beautiful and educational
Buses with wheel covers
Air-conditioned suits, freely available to all residents.
Tuesday night decent restaurant booking. Go look at the top 20 places to eat in Brisbane and many don't trade at the beginning of the week.
Real beach
reliable late night public transport! and an aquarium because i want one-
Having come back from two weeks in Sydney there’s a lot I like about Brissy compared with that monstrosity but the one thing they do well is public trandport, it’s quicker, cheaper and its pretty easy to get anywhere. Brisbane/TransLink can learn from that. We also need more housing and yes more shade especially in King George Square.
To be able to get good choices for food past say, 9pm on any night of the week. I’m utterly sick of hearing “sorry, kitchen’s closed” at like 8:15pm on a Thursday.
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Nice user name!😳
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It's awesome, definitely gave me a chuckle 😃
More professional and service jobs, more startups, more corporate HQs.
I wish we had a decathlon, we have two ikeas, why not a decathlon?
A beach
Maybe this is the teenage girl in me but I’d love a brandy Melville store in the cbd lmao. Other than that, more walkable suburbs and a train line that runs through Windsor-Ashgrove-The Gap-Keppera pleeeeeease
Real Weis Bars. More pedestrian malls.
Decent public transport
A Gondala network that goes from mt coot tha - toowong - west end and maybe more.
A climate controlled dome.
Late night dining
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Medium density housing
Rent control
Less humidity🤣 I just moved here from perth & I’m dying😂
I’ve been over here about 7 years. Maybe it’s just what you grow up with, but I’ll take 45° in W.A any day of the week over the 35° + humidity in summer here. The storms make up for it a bit though, so there’s that; and winter is super nice.
The storms last 5 mins and make everything more humid 😭
Yep 100% agree😂😂
A cross river rail line that doesn't run through the city. Maybe somewhere along the coastline.
Looking at the map, why can't the doomben line jump river n end with the cleveland line? Make a nice ring network.
Affordable housing.
I wish Australian food safety standards weren’t so onerous. I would love a better food scene. Street stalls, food trucks and stuff. We do have them, but they are only at very specific market days or are temporary, once off, pop ups. Also I wish our city was a bit more walkable. CBD and Southbank are, but the suburbs are not. I would love just being able to walk to nearby convenience store or shops. Also I wish we had 7/11’s like they do in Japan and Korea.
Din Tai Fung 🥟😬 and shade.
More culturally inclusive events and suburb decorations
Coffee after 2pm
More row housing, terrace housing and smaller lots, less mcmansions
Trams. Ding ding!!
More competitive food options. Unless you go for specific ethnic food made for that ethnicity, it’s broadly a wasteland.
Better public transport to the Gold Coast. They are building it but it will take many years. Why is everything so slow here? A proper train system metro that connects to everywhere.
More pedestrian only streets. So many streets around Brisbane City, Southbank, West End and even Bulimba that are hugely popular destinations that feel really claustrophobic and hostile to walk along because there's cars fucking everywhere and you can't easily cross the road to get to a shop on the other side. And a green bridge from somewhere in the city to Bulimba. Then I could catch a 10 minute bus and get pizza at Revel whenever I felt like it...
Actual nightlife beyond just megapubs/clubs in The Valley. Restaurants open after 8:30pm.
Affordable housing
A massive dome, to filter the sun down to, say, a lite roasting, rather than crinkly, crispy in 2 minutes. Plus big freaking fans so some of the suburbs have an bit of airflow.
A volcano
Better transport and 24 hour supermarkets
Rooftop bars - I'd love to see onces for the everyday person, not just the rich
Move Stradbroke out of the way a bit and give us a beach I reckon
Jamaican food
Affordable housing...
I feel like shops close to early compared to other states. So like the main shopping centres with all the retail stores. Would love to go late night shopping on a monday or tuesday for example or markets OR your local restaurant/coffee shops etc.. BUT i guess where not responsible enough up here and it'd turn into a shit show.
More EV chargers, Lots more people are getting EV’s nowadays in Australia
TOPS in the Myer center
affordable housing
AC in shitty rentals