We all love this city, but perhaps there’s something you’ve secretly wished was in Brisbane.
Perhaps it’s a particular store chain or service… a change to the city’s infrastructure… or something else other cities have, but is just missing here for some reason.
Don’t say ‘nothing’, that’s cheating! Every city can be improved upon, so what do you think is currently desperately missing in our city?
A decent public transportation system — ours is appalling!
I was actually discussing this with my partner and his work mates on our recent trip to Melbourne. Brisbane lacks ambient laneways with boutique shops and gorgeous restaurants that are in alleyways..
the expereience is melbourne is so gorgeous.. why cant we have some of that culture here is Brisvegas?
Proper pubs. Not fake English or Irish pubs, not souless suburban drinking barns with a bottle shop tacked onto the side, but small, friendly bars that have a good ambience, a variety of beers, characters and atmosphere. They can be a bit dingy and run-down, but they must have character, a random drunk who is in there all of the time and they must not have a 200cm plasma, piped music or pokies.
Daylight Savings.
Amanda – it won’t be too long before we have some laneways of our own. Isn’t Burnett Lane between the Queen Street Mall & Adelaide Street about to be redone?
Daylight savings and decent bloody public transport all the way!
It is now here…..a “City to Straddie” 4WD Eco Tour & Bush Tucker experience that will pick you up from your accommodation in Brisbane CBD and show you this Island Paradise we have just off the coast out from Brisbane. I guess 95% of people living in Brisbane have never been to Straddie!
Please click on web site or google Straddie Kingfisher Tours and you will agree with me that Brisbane IS the place to live when you have such a jewel just 40 minutes away.
Hope to see you soon.
A good pool bar and beer garden. We have the weather for it so why not!!
Decent transport?!!! The transport in this city is top notch! People are just too scared to try it themselves. The council has taken leaps and bounds to get a good system going and i think they’ve done a damn good job. Eg. On time & safe security patrolled trains, Efficient river City Cats, environmentally friendly buses & express busways, bicycle hire & bicycle lanes etc…
RJ_MP… are you in Brisbane Australia? I don’t drive and when I catch the train, it is ALWAYS late. Even outside of peak hour and when the train is half empty. Buses are ok if you’re on one of the quieter routes, which of course then you have fewer services running. For the busy routes, the buses sail past full, run late and miss stops.
As my bus sails past South Bank station every afternoon, I see hundreds of people standing there waiting for delayed trains. This is not “top notch”.
If New York City can get it right underground and with 7 million people in Manhattan alone, why can’t Brisbane?
That’s the word – ambience. We’re missing a friendly evening ambience to go with our sultry summer nights.
We’re also missing extended trading hours. It’s a ghost town after 8pm on a weekday.
1) Daylight saving time.
2) Supermarkets that are open after 5pm on a Saturday. You won’t find a Woolworths or Coles supermarket open in suburban Brisbane on a Saturday after 5pm – the CBD stores are open until 7pm. Many Woolworths supermarkets are open until midnight 6 or 7 days a week in Sydney & Melbourne and some Coles supermarkets are open 24 hours in Melbourne. Woolworths at Moree N.S.W (population of about 10 000) is open until 10pm on a Saturday which is 5 hours later than Brisbane suburban Woolworths supermarkets.
3) Public transport from the airport after 8pm. There are about 20 flights that arrive into Brisbane after 8pm each day. Why do we pay a hefty premium to use the Airport Line that provides a service that finishes about 4 hours earlier than other lines. Sydney has a rail service from the airport until almost midnight & Melbourne has a 24 hour bus service.
improved public transport infrastructure. current infrastructure is being ignored for other infrastructure that doesn’t address the problem at hand, rather pushes it in another direction or two. i’ve been through sydney and it’s tunnel: it’s worst than going over the bridge to get to the other side; and the burnley tunnel in melbourn is a shambles from 2:30pm til after 7pm, and yet we want to try the same stupid ideas that they haven’t made work.
entertainment districts that are spread out from the city. the folk who decided that a central entertainment disctrict was a good idea should be shot! it is because of them and increased population growth that we have such problems in the valley at the moment, and why the government is installing these curfews – which only hinder the situation not help it.
more attention to laneways. brisbane has heaps of empty laneways that people are scared to walk down and consequently, a lot of brisbaneites miss out on some of the most awesome places in melbourne because we’re of the natures that “laneway = bad”.
changes to licensing. make it so that smaller venues can have a license but not pay the ridiculously hefty annual fees that are currently in place. this can allow late night licensed cafes to run and provide more places for live (acoustic) music for people to enjoy. brisbane needs more culture and entertainment that it just doesn’t have.
more access to the airtrain after dark. i think it’s ridiculous that we have a train line from the airport that is quicker and cheaper than a taxi, but is not accessible after 7 or 8pm. i have to reorganise my travel to coincide with the travel times of the airtrain, which is horribly limiting. for the cost of the train, it should be available for ALL flights.
My god, Brisbane needs to get with the rest of the world and have fresh food available 24hours a day. Supermarkets that is. I have people coming over tomorrow and looks like I cant give them any food apart from month old snags. 24 HOUR SUPERMARKET PRIORITY NO1.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!