City Hall will be lit Purple and Gold to celebrate a wedding
I had to Google who they were because I figured they were celebrities I wasn't familiar with. Turns out, they're just two people. I guess anyone can pay/apply to get BCC landmarks lit up for them.
@Pistcow not confirmed that this will be tolled, but it's going to start from the end of one existing toll road which, yes, was built by a mix of public & private funds and is now privately-owned and tolled. I expect this will be the same.
But my objection is *primarily* about the fact that it's being built at all, rather than about who's paying for it, per se. Even if both are bad.
@brisbane this announcement comes right in the middle of widening Gympie into an 8-lane monstrosity through this section. It needs a *serious* road diet. One 24/7 bus lane in each direction, a bike lane in each direction, and it would *still* be a 4 lane major road. But instead, we get peak-hour-only bus lanes and you can navigate some winding back streets (give way every time you cross *any* road!) if you wanna cycle to Chermside.
Queensland Government promises to build yet another (probably tolled) fucking car tunnel. @brisbane
Fuck this makes me **so** angry. We KNOW this doesn't work. You want to solve congestion, road diet the existing roads. Build good bike infrastructure. Build good public transport. How does this happen with a single off-the-cuff announcement when *months* of back-and-forth debate over public transport network with the NWTC went *nowhere*.
@coaxil Nikon D7500, some on a 55–200 mm f/4.0–5.6 lens, others on the 18–55 mm f/3.5–5.6 kit lens my older D3100 came with.
@coaxil I posted to this community from my Mastodon if you wanna go find that, but also here's a direct link to the Pixelfed posts I *wanted* to link:
@brisbane I couldn't figure out how to get them to post directly from Pixelfed to Lemmy how I wanted, unfortunately, so I'm posting a link to that from here.
And it also doesn't seem that my double x-post to pics worked. 🤷♂️
Foggy Brisbane last Thursday night!
More photos of the fog from UQ and Mt Coot-tha summit at:
https://pixelfed.au/i/web/post/702260266478719257
@trk conveniently, I only noticed the fog because I went outside to bring in the washing, and discovered it was *soaked*.
@trk I went out last night at an unreasonable hour to go take photos. Took my good camera though, not the smartphone, so will have to wait to process them before sharing.
UQ Lakes at night @brisbane
UQ's Camp Solidarity still going strong. The pro-genociders seem to have given up though. @brisbane
@Gamers_Mate @Rentlar no don't delete it! It's an important issue and more people should be able to see it!
@Spitzspot yeah I dunno why exactly the Pitch Drop experiment gets the label "longest continually-running experiment". Probably some kind of technicality about what exactly counts as "experiment" and "continually-running". There are some even older than Beal's listed on Wikipedia, depending on how you define it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_experiment
The longest-running scientific experiment, the Pitch Drop at the University of Queensland, Brisbane @brisbane
UQ students standing in solidarity with Palestine
UQ has a very strong relationship with US weapons manufacturer Boeing. Students are protesting this relationship, as well as showing general support for Palestinians, by staging a camp-in on campus.
Some photos I took of the camp as I walked past them this morning.
edit: 2nd & 3rd images linked for Lemmy:
Someone else feel free to repost or put them inline for Lemmings' convience.
A clever solution to BCC's cowardice
BCC has been repeatedly removing ghost bikes from a site on Nudgee Rd after a cyclist died at the location last year, despite years of warning from cycling advocates that improved infrastructure was needed in the area. To stop them from removing the ghost bikes, highlighting the blood on BCC's hands, *and* highlighting the absurdity of how storing private property on public land is completely ok if it's a car, someone installed this ghost trailer.
@brisbane
@Zozano it's not so much fuck me, as fuck the entire Brisbane population.