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[brutus76]

Might be a stupid question but what's the point of the GABBA cross river rail station if we go to Vic Park? Won't that be a total waste? There's not that much around there when the footy isn't on and that will reduce further if we move out of the area as well.

They build a 15k-20k Rod Laver type arena for basketball, netball, concerts as travelling to and getting in and out of Boondall is horrible then sell off the excess land for property developers.

Would see regular use

 

[Section 5]

They build a 15k-20k Rod Laver type arena for basketball, netball, concerts as travelling to and getting in and out of Boondall is horrible then sell off the excess land for property developers.

Would see regular use

Easy enough to do both.
Brisbane Arena over the CRR site before Olympics
Pull down The Gabba after the Olympics and use it for just about anything that is "the in thing" in 2032.
We will have a better idea in around 7/8 weeks' time.

 

[Perrip]

This is the latest post by Save Victoria Park. Suggesting to their followers that it'll be a 1:1 build of Optus Stadium, is nonsensical.


u/Apeonabicycle on r/brisbane thread

It’s not really a 1:1 comparison though.
Active Use Area includes: - Stadium: not in any preferred location I have seen proposed or discussed - bus transfer station: Use existing Herston Busway - hospitality facilities: Existing clubhouse (plus facilities at neighbouring Exhibition Grounds, Spring Hill and Fortitude Valley) - pedestrian circulation concourses: fair criticism - supporting parking: Vic park already has parking, and the current master plan suggests expanding it. Personally I would like it shrunk to maximise public transport access, stadium or not. - landscaping features: Vic Park is literally a giant landscaping feature.
Vic Park has a lot of complex challenges and would need incredibly strict conditions on design to ensure the claims for an increase in greenspace actually yielded those results. But it could be achieved if the driving range was revegetated, the surface carparks aren’t expanded, and the ICB actually got covered with a land bridge. But cost would likely be eye watering.
Gabba location is great but the land parcel simply doesn’t allow a Stadium of sufficient magnitude. Particularly when you consider Brisbanes projected population. All other discussion points are moot. The site simply doesn’t have the required dimensions.
Since Gabba doesn’t physically work and Vic Park seems to be too unpalatable for a large portion of the community a novel inner suburbs option might be necessary. Something like Albion Park Paceway. But that would need major flood mitigation and some significant transport and accessibility upgrades. Doomben line is too shit and circuitous to make Hamilton a viable option even if the line was extended. Hamilton might have been great if we had built a variant on the Brisbane Subway proposal from Connecting SEQ 2031 with a line down the axis of the river. But we didn’t build that so Hamilton is also a pure fiction to achieve for 2032.
Personally I think Vic Park is a bad option, but the least bad location of the current candidates. The current Brisbane Bold proposal has way too much impact on the park and any actual design would need to have virtually nothing in common other than the stadium capacity.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Yeah I don't think they'll care about the ex labor ones but not sure what Campbell Newman is doing there, he'll no doubt be reigned in if the libs wanna go that way. The whole thing is so ridiculous there is a tonne of space there.

Newman left the LNP long ago and joined the Liberal Democrats (now the Libertarians).
And if you feel those names are awfully close to the Liberals, yes, that's the point, they leech votes from the Liberals by preying on people's confusion. The Democratic Labour Party similarly leeches votes from Labor.

So there's no one to rein Newman in really.