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Expanding Brisbane Infrastructure.

A further current debate is how to best improve the local infrastructure to cope with the population boom.

The city council is working like mad to reduce city center traffic congestion.

Public transport and roads are in a constant state of being up graded and neighborhood planning is at full tilt.

With the necessary expansion of bus and bike ways, car parks around major shopping areas and train lines there has been and continues to be care taken to preserve and protect the things most loved: green open spaces and park lands.

What is probably worth knowing, is that commuting is a relatively new concept to Brisbane. Many like to cycle or drive to work and there isn’t a metro or subway in the city center.

The big push is really to encourage more use of commuter car parks ~ thus traveling to work by train and buses.

The plan is to have the current transport lines extended with improved service and a city tunnel is underway.

For us, who are used to commuting and live not to far from buses and a train station, the congestion really hasn’t been a problem.