OLYMPICS Brisbane Olympic Disaster

[mitch222]

Why doesn’t Qld go truly unique and build a giant jumping castle.

Look ill conduct a study into making this happen and ill only charge 225K

 

[Dash]

Look ill conduct a study into making this happen and ill only charge 225K

Only if we get to completely ignore it, thus wasting taxpayer money for no reason.

 

[Foordy]

I think the main issue with the Gabba is the train station is to far away from the stadium. It actually makes no sense to rebuild the Gabba if they cant adequately address the public transport issue in getting to the stadium. And buses or trams just simply aren't the fix either.

Isn't there supposed to be a cross river rail station near the Gabba in a few years

 

[Mustafur]

I think the main issue with the Gabba is the train station is to far away from the stadium. It actually makes no sense to rebuild the Gabba if they cant adequately address the public transport issue in getting to the stadium. And buses or trams just simply aren't the fix either.

Sounds like the same issue the SCG/SFS has, they just recently put a light rail there and called it a day but it's still a shit show.

That said most Stadiums in Shitney have the same issue, only Homebush doesn't because they made a whole new train line just for it.

 

[The Boss]

Surprised AFL not going mad about this where do Lions play in 15 years.

 

[Sproj]

Surprised AFL not going mad about this where do Lions play in 15 years.

Melbourne

 

[The Boss]

Is the Liberal party view same as Labor?

 

[Nashy]

Is the Liberal party view same as Labor?

They're really not saying much. Probably a good idea to avoid this as long as they can in an election year.

 

[Fozz]

They're really not saying much. Probably a good idea to avoid this as long as they can in an election year.

They've already ruled out Victoria Park. They'll get another review that probably has some minor adjustments and go "See, the experts are telling us to do this so we must do this. Don't blame us, blame the experts"

 

[Nashy]

They've already ruled out Victoria Park. They'll get another review that probably has some minor adjustments and go "See, the experts are telling us to do this so we must do this. Don't blame us, blame the experts"

Given the reaction, at least that I've seen, getting a mate to say build the Gabba might make quite a few Brisbanites happy.

 

[The Boss]

What will suncorp upgrade be for, increased capacity???

 

[Harry Sack]

What will suncorp upgrade be for, increased capacity???

Apparently? To upgrade the capacity though, surely they need to remove and replace the roof...can't see it. I think the Vic Park stadium will get up eventually tbh. Gut feeling

 

[Allo]

I think the main issue with the Gabba is the train station is to far away from the stadium. It actually makes no sense to rebuild the Gabba if they cant adequately address the public transport issue in getting to the stadium. And buses or trams just simply aren't the fix either.

Isn't there supposed to be a cross river rail station near the Gabba in a few years

It’s literally across the road, although the entry to the station I believe is on Leopard street on the left which doesn't seem too great. Needs one under Main St directly in front of the stadium

Connects with the existing busway and is part of CRR

It's a victim of its location in that Vulture and Stanley are just far too important roads to cut, being one-way opposite roads that connect East Brisbane and everything north of Old Cleveland Rd to the M3, South Bank/Brisbane and the Mater + QCH (and vice-versa). Cut those and every street north becomes a rat run through the suburban back streets past the stadium to get back onto them and/or Old Cleveland gets a hell of a lot busier along with Lytton Rd as well

So you can't expand north to Linton St or south into the top of Logan Rd, and taking the school east to Wellington or even back to Lisburn won't really matter as you won't be able to make it any bigger in diameter keeping within the bounds of Vulture and Stanley.

I guess you could build it up/redesign the layout to increase capacity, but I think you'll still struggle for proper space

 

[Mustafur]

Can't they just make the stands steeper, and reduce field size to the minimum for AFL/cricket?

That said the residential around the stadium is poor as **** by who ever approved that shit.

 

[Xzei]

paris Olympics this year??? am i the only one that forgot all about it?

 

[Culhwch]

paris Olympics this year??? am i the only one that forgot all about it?

Feels like they are not in the public consciousness as much as they once were.

 

[Nashy]

Miles and Crisafulli both realised the fuckup that this bid has caused, they really should just pull noticed and cancel it, or expand it to other states. What a fucking joke.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/destinations/north-america/new-orleans-828m-superdome-super-bowl-investment-exposes-brisbane-olympic-farce/news-story/a37d2c96b73cb0eb63411f5953db4e98

 

[BroncsFan]

Miles and Crisafulli both realised the fuckup that this bid has caused, they really should just pull noticed and cancel it, or expand it to other states. What a fucking joke.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/destinations/north-america/new-orleans-828m-superdome-super-bowl-investment-exposes-brisbane-olympic-farce/news-story/a37d2c96b73cb0eb63411f5953db4e98

They really should move away from thinking the Gabba can be rebuilt... that area just looks like a nightmare from a construction perspective, but it's also not a great location to get to from a public transport perspective.

One of the broncos games I went to last year took me about 2hr to get home from and I live in the city... Suncorp on the other hand is never any issues... most people will head to Caxton St, but there's also Milton and Roma St train stations as well as busses... so getting out of the city never seems an issue.

All the talk about the Olympics is focussed on this one stadium though... there will need to be big upgrades from an infrastructure perspective and it seems like they've not even identified what's required from a master planning perspective.

Seems like they're still in the planning and feasibility stage when they should be out there tendering... definite risk that they run out of time at this stage.