Thanks Ben! We’ll be sure to keep you up to date with all that’s happening in Brisbane 😊 welcome to Bris-Vegas!

@@melpikos8533 why does CRR and Metro benefit the southside more than the northside?

@@melpikos8533 why does CRR and Metro benefit the southside more than the northside? I think its because people on the northside prefer driving

I'm going to start studying Civil Engineering but I also wanted Architecture 😭

Thanks Vinaysh! Agree, Brisbane is on the up!

@@melpikos8533 Meanwhile the cities and towns in Regional Queensland continue to decay from neglect from the SEQ government.

Yeah, only $3 million for a house in Tarragindi. Truly becoming such an affordable and liveable city for the top 1%.

Anyone with a head should be trying to move to Adelaide or Perth Problem is by the time all this is done and Brisbane explodes housing affordability will be beyond shot.

Lmao bruise will always be under the shadows of Sydney and Melbourne

There are definitely big plans to improve this with the new Woolloongabba PDA, to come out end of this year! Huge connections from the Gabba to Suncorp Stadium.

Yes, safety is a priority, but at the same time, visual pollution by dumped scooters can be an eyesore and hazard.

@@theokleoudis4967 I agree.

I like the idea of a second Gabba Stadium. Instead of leaving a ugly blank canvas it would be more appropriate to build a second Gabba stadium

Excellent idea 👌

Thanks Lex!

I agree it's stupid only 50000 seat needs to be 60000 n up

Traffic will eventually become like Melbourne

its own mr magoo crazy town, sorry limiting vehicle across the river when it is the public transport is the jamming facture, peak hour busses line the bridge and "replacing" the 111&160(same route) with just a bigger bus - (oh the Olympics that is going to be a shit how)

Time for Brisbane to shine. We certainly have the opportunity to be a viable alternative to Sydney and Melbourne.

@@melpikos8533 why does CRR and Metro benefit the southside more than the northside?

Brisbane is on the rise!

Space is at a premium there. I don't think a second stadium is efficient use of that expensive area, especially not if such a stadium is going to be empty most of the time. Besides: no one would want to live that close to 2 massive stadiums generating noise if ever both are in use.

@@melpikos8533 why does CRR and Metro benefit the southside more than the northside?

Indeed! Looking forward to the opening later this year!

Can’t wait!

Great place to raise families also. So much variety and something for everyone..

Hahah, good reason to stay!

Me too. Kangaroo Pt. It would be great to have a Kangaroo Point subway station 🎉

The secret is out, everyone is moving here! Let’s share our amazing city 😊

@@melpikos8533 no

Progress is good 👍

Brisbane needs to focus on better public transport infrastructure especially in the outer suburbs of the south west, traffic is becoming a nightmare, they need a railway line all the way to Beaudesert.

It certainly would be nice to connect those precincts, Keith! I think the Metro project is our best shot. A lot more affordable to deliver over heavy rail and gives us the flexibility to adapt routes as required. Appreciate the kind words as well.

Yeah, Brisbane needs a MEGA Stadium, when the Gabba can't even reach 50% attendance levels for sporting events. But yeah, lets build a 90,000 seat stadium that will have 70,000 empty seats for sporting events. Great logic. Also, Brisbane will never have a good transport system, while we have morons making decisions at the helm. Lets build an expensive busway system that directly competes with the train network, instead of feeding the train network. Have you been to Newstead lately? 15-20 High rise residential towers, and not a single cent spent on improving the infrastructure. As long as the Polly's get rich by selling off to the Asian market to make a quick buck, this city will remain a dumb city. You should get a job with the QLD Government and continue the traditional of moronic developments and do stupid things like, Lets host an Olympics. Only one Olympics has ever made a profit, the rest all debt. It took Quebec 40 years to pay off the debt from the 1976 Olympics. Brisbane the Smart City.

100%. We need to future proof the capacity, not limit it. We need to think BIG!

Yeah I agree mate it’s ridiculous. A 50k capacity Olympic stadium is a national embarrassment.

Green space is planned above Cross River Rail at the Gabba. Not sure why you’d deliver huge mass transit and no significant structures to compliment the use of mass rapid transit? Seems like a wasted opportunity to me.

Agree. Either go big or go home..

Gabba is currently rediculous as it’s not disability friendly and no proper female change rooms! It was designed for men! No other choice but to make it for the Paralympians! Did you see the government Roundtable is march? Brisbane 2032 is going to be the change we need in terms of acceptance of people living with a disability!

Thanks Jay, I'm certainly still looking forward to the "new" Gabba!

Shame it was built mostly in a run down Industry estate back in the day 😮

@@melpikos8533 why does CRR and Metro benefit the southside more than the northside?

Glad to be here in Brissy!

@@melpikos8533 why does CRR and Metro benefit the southside more than the northside?

I’d support that for sure! Morningside to Northshore Hamilton via a Metro Green Bridge would be ideal as well.

@@melpikos8533 why does CRR and Metro benefit the southside more than the northside?

Welcome to Brisbane, Christian!

just need more slum towers and meth heads and bam... sydney here we come.

These southern cities are becoming increasingly more communist.. The Qld heat seems to scare them away 😅😅

Alot of Brisbanes roads are *also* owned and tolled by Transurban....

Its all true, but the Gold Coast is a haven for crime.

Thanks Dylan, would love to see it get off the ground!

Great video by the way 👍🏼

Every Olympic stadium is 80-100k and in 2032 we’re gonna present to the world a relatively tiny 50k stadium.

50k stadium is very short sighted. Let’s future proof this mofo by making it BIG!

You can never have too many bins!

Brisbane and virtually all of QLD has a crime rate through the roof. But if you can get passed that, it is an increbibly beautiful City with lots going on. As well as good job prospects and climate. I lived there for 2 yrs and that was enough for me. But best of luck, if you find a nice area i'm sure you'll love it.

@@Sharpshooter99100 Been living in Brisbane now for more than a month and so far, I love the climate. Sadly, it is true, the crime rate here is really high..it is actually scary. We weren’t able to research well..we are planning to move to a different suburb, hopefully it will be a better one. Living costs is lower than Sydney, and better pay here surprisingly. That’s it so far but thanks for wishing us good luck!🙏🏻

@@chilloioi I'm sure you'll get on fine. Find a nice suburb and you're all set! I never came across any issues during my time there, and loved it. Only good memories. Came back as the humidity was too much for me. When choosing a suburb bear in mind flood risk too! They've had some bad ones there. Hope you're settling in though it's a nice city. Gotta be positive.

Brisbane just keeps getting better!

Thanks for the kind words, Callum!

It does get pretty hot and humid, but at least our winters are very mild!

​@@melpikos8533 winters are the best In Brisbane 🎉

@@paulfri1569 can we really call them winters? 😂 Agree, winter in Brisbane is pretty damn good!

I think the train and metro at the Gabba will be the main game changer, as well as all the amenity likes pubs, restaurants for pre and post match.

Completely agree Matthew, I’m a firm believer that we need to develop up, not endless sprawl. Mass rapid transport needs density to support it.

@@melpikos8533 why does CRR and Metro benefit the southside more than the northside?

Thanks Benny!

I might have to bring my Oxygen Low-cut's out of retirement!

@@melpikos8533 Definitely! Or we can provide some skates from our fleet of rollerblades (and rollerskates 🛼)!

Agreed. The Gabba doesn't need to be as big as the MCG but needs to have at least 70-80k seats.

The Gabba is a huge opportunity for Brisbane. I agree that a potential solution is to put Vulture St, Stanley St and the Riverside expressway underground. Maybe it can be converted to Brisbane's version of the New York High-Line?

Love the High Line idea for Riverside Expressway Mel.

One only needs to drive on our evermore congesting roads and motorways to realise the pending gridlock is almost upon us. Drive around any suburban area in Brisbane and the amount of subdivisions springing up can only mean one thing. It will be quicker to walk or bike in the future. Infrastructure is great in the city district but if it's at the expense of suburban living .........?

Good reason to go up and not sprawl!

On the subject of build up not out - this is also fraut with issues. A building housing 2,000 people needs connectivity which planners aren't addressing yet. The car has to be taken out of the equation and other forms of transportation must be considered.

@@markworrall6405 that’s why density at the Gabba would be perfect after Cross River Rail and Metro are complete. Certainly better than car yards.

I tried to keep it Brisbane centric for this video, more videos to follow on major projects in the South East. But glad you want more content!

Thanks Rob, appreciate the feedback!

I grew up in Sydney and spent 13 years in Brisbane - Southeast Queensland will be an absolute monster by 2050 but there is no comparison with Sydney's harbour. The Gold Coast is tacky IMO and the Sunny Coast is a retirement village, but the numbers don't lie - southerners continue to flock to one corner of a huge state. If you saw the Brisbane CBD 30 years ago, you'd understand why some people are excited (and others horrified) by these projects - the genie is definitely out of the bottle.

And Melbourne will be way bigger than Sydney well before then.

@@dazzahoward7104 True, but I doubt that any of them will deal with the population growth. 20 years ago, I told a colleague that the GC would have huge problems with youth crime if they just kept building new suburbs to attract young families and ignoring transport infrastructure but money talks.

I'm my ignorance I thought there was only two type of fanboys Intel and AMD. Today I learnt we also have Sydney fanboys!!

At least Brisbane doesn’t smell like sewer…

Nothing like an Olympics to force 3 levels of Government to work together for a common cause! Not to mention a hard deadline to deliver!

Completely agree!

Albion Park?

Could be a great future stage

Will certainly do some more South East QLD videos in the future, stay tuned!

I think it’s on the go slow

I live in South Brisbane and agree, Vulture St near South Bank is definitely far too congested and needs to be fixed as it will only get worse. A tunnel as you've suggested would work well I think. The West End / South Brisbane peninsula is only going to get more built up. The reason why I love the Brisbane Metro project is its versatility in being able to be expanded. I think over time we'll get connections to Chermside / Carindale and I'd love to see the big chunks of developable land in Morningside / Northshore Hamilton get a metro stop so we can add more affordable inner city apartments onto the market. Thanks for the comments Steve :)

As a town planner who has worked on modelling for urban tunnels before (in Brisbane), building road tunnels is a waste of public funding. Remember the other ones (where the finances were released) all went broke and were picked up on the cheap by Transurban. Thousands of retail Mum and Dad investors lost their savings in that ill thought out Ponzi Scheme. I have always maintained that Transapex was a solution in search of a problem. Transapex was always a poorly conceived idea (like the west Brisbane bypass) that will never, ever stack up. The tunnel to Toowong does not have the demand to justify a tunnel, neither when it was conceived, now or 30 years in the future. The Go Between Bridge is sufficient to meet that need as the western suburbs are too small and will never have the population. The Clem 7 was another poorly conceived tunnel that took people from north of where all the jobs are to south of where all the jobs are (and they wondered why nobody used it!). Plus if you are going to the expense of tunneling, it only makes sense if you then put trains in it as the return from cars is insufficient in the long run. Cross River Rail has the best investment return of all these projects. If we want to dig more tunnels under Brisbane then I suggest and east-west rail tunnel from Cannon Hill to the City and then under West End to Indooroopilly. West End could get its own underground station as well as New Farm/Teneriffe and Balmoral/Bulimba with a new CBD station as well. That would have more long term structural benefit for the city than roads. The Stafford corridor could be used for rail as well. Maximum capacity of a rail corridor is more than double that of a road corridor and has land use uplift benefits as well as stations can support density and mixed use. Most road projects in urban areas lose money in the long run.

​@@neumanmachine3781this 👍 Also we need more connections linking our current terminus' or even between the various branches. Imagine a train line that could loop from CBD to Beenleigh and then through to Cleveland and back to the CBD. It would help to decentralise our city, alleviate peak demands and provide a whole new growth corridor away from the traditional branch lines into the city. So many other cities have gone this next step and made their networks truly versatile, it's something Brisbane lacks entirely other than a handful of poorly timetabled bus routes at the moment

@@neumanmachine3781 I’m speaking in terms of Mel’s vision to divert the riverside expressway in his latest video. Only the entrances to the cbd street / exits could be tolled from exits under Southbank and the tunnel under the Gabba and Southbank would have to be free as a replacement to the captain cook bridge and riverside expressway. GBB would also have to become free. The m3 would divert under Southbank and fix hale street all the way to kelvin grove road to eliminate the constant lane changing. Returning north bank to the people / developers will pay for the road so no toll needed. Your rail solutions are great and I agree with that we need more tunnelling for train metros right across Brisbane but the context of my discussion was fixing the mess of freeway and inner city gridlock we have now by taking that stuff underground in preparation for the 2032 olympics around the Gabba! Gabba area is a nightmare but how else do we fix that without Mel’s bold vision of diverting riverside expressway, , and get the through traffic away from the Olympic stadium!? Underground is the only option I see in that area. It would be awesome!

Thanks for the comment twrampage!

16% is a pretty small increase for all that extra cash!

Thanks Adam, I’m sure there would be a commercial return from an increase in events at the stadium, more ticket sales, naming rights, etc.

@@melpikos8533 why does CRR and Metro benefit the southside more than the northside?

@@electro_sykes Because of the Cross City Rail

Hi Glenn, I plan to do an overview on all Bridges in Brisbane, along with a few of my own ideas on where logical connections should go. Stay tuned!

Certainly need to build more high rise apartments near major transport nodes to ensure there are people using them!

Same as the Bruce Hwy 😂

100% agree Lawrence! Build big around major transport nodes!

Thanks Stew!

Agreed, public transport in the outer suburbs is abysmal, and expensive if travelling to inner city everyday, not everyone can afford to buy a home in inner suburbs, where all the great infrastructure is and transport costs are low. There should have already been a railway line out to Beaudesert 30 years ago, apparently there was one once but it was ripped up, not sure. But they definitely need it now.

I’ve got another video on floods, check out the channel!

Glad you’re enjoying the content, Josh!

Yes, hope that is encouraged too, so it's great that they are open to receiving ideas from the public as to what should go there! Make sure you send in your ideas!

I think this is actually the way to go. Following Olympics, demolish the current gabbe and turn it into the green space they have proposed for over the CRR station along with maybe reinstating the east Brisbane as could be a win win for everyone then and no displacement of Cricket or AFL during construction 👌

The MCG is a bit more than 600 metres from the CBD! The MCG is at Jolimont. The CBD really begins at Flinders St.

Thanks for the support, Jason!

Even more reason to ensure our city expands up, not sideways! Still plenty of developable land in the city to ensure our future growth as well as making it very walkable.

The Olympics will certainly make Brisbane known throughout the world and a household name!

Brisbane won't become Australia's largest city anytime soon, if ever. Melbourne and Sydney are both double the population of Brisbane and it will take decades to close the gap assuming that growth in those cities slows down. For comparison, Brisbane in 2021 had about 2.5 million people. Sydney had that population in 1966 and Melbourne in 1971. Brisbane is currently growing at a faster rate than these two cities, but both of them grow by a larger number of people in any given year. There has only been one year in the last 50 when Brisbane's growth in numbers exceeded that of Sydney, and you would have to go back to the 1990's for a period when Brisbane outgrew Melbourne. Through most of the last decade both Sydney and Melbourne grew at double the numbers of Brisbane. Brisbane will get bigger and more vibrant, but Sydney and Melbourne will continue to be much larger for the foreseeable future.

@@neumanmachine3781 City size should not be measured only by Population Size. There must consider other factors too such as the infrastructure, economic development, education, business HQ, transportation, airports, container ports, international sports and cultural activities etc....... At present, Brisbane is behind Sydney and Melbourne in everything which may take years to develop. The only advantage for "Brisbane-GC-SC" right now is their location, sunny weather, beaches, entertainment parks and low crime rate.

It’s the people deciding to move to Brisbane. People are choosing big cities due to the amenity. QLD is already the most decentralised state, however people are flocking to the south east corner.

@@melpikos8533 Yeah I used to live in south east QLD, it's a nice region. There is massive amounts of town development there if you have a look at the waterways it's all heavily curated and Robina specifically they've build thousands of homes, a stadium, hospital, school, mall and businesses in over the last 20-30 years. But we'll continue having the worlds highest cancer rates if we carry on living in cities that we built in extremely UV exposed locations. Not to mention high energy costs to cool things down in the harsh summers. Places like Albany WA, Busselton WA, Hobart, Lauceston, Regional victoria imo are more ideal to live, but whether the region can sustain millions of people would require significant initial investment.

We'll have to get you on a Brisbane Metro to take you where all the action is happening.

I think the vast majority of projects in Brisbane definitely benefit the south side of the river. There has been more availability of big chunks of land on the south to allow these big projects to be delivered. I also think proximity to the Gold Coast means that the South will outperform the North.

@@melpikos8533 apologies for the typos - bloody auto type. Thanks for responding back.

@@shazkumars Ha Ha, I have lived in Brisbane most of my life and on the northside too. I have never heard of Kenton or Ashley and I actually googled them to see what I had missed. So glad to discover I am not going crazy.

@@RolandjHearn haha! iPhone and auto type - meant to read Kedron, Aspley.

@@shazkumars That is what I guessed as soon as I saw your post about autocorrect. It gave me a good laugh about my need to find these two "mystery suburbs."

I reckon the Gabba is closer, but just slightly 😅

Imagine if they decided to build at Victoria Park as originally planned.. would be just as close also 🤔