Article: Brisbane's suburbs now bigger than Rome or Berlin

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Brisbane's suburbs now bigger than Rome or Berlin

Brisbane's suburbs now bigger than Rome or Berlin
Article from: MX

Alex Dickinson

December 18, 2008 02:20pm

BRISBANE and its surrounding area is officially the fastest growing region in Australia and now has a larger suburban area than Berlin and Rome.
The latest edition of UBD Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast Refidex has 970 new streets this year, compared with only 500 new streets in Sydney's UBD.

And Brisbane is now the 39th largest city by area in the world.

The new UBD has also been updated to include five major suburban developments and two highway extensions, and has revealed Brisbane's most popular street names - Park, Boundary and Railway.

Universal Publishers Anne Farquharson said Brisbane's growing infrastructure was the result of two decades of rapid population growth.

Since 1988, the city has doubled its population, recently punching through the 1 million-resident milestone, she said.

Queensland has done similarly well, capturing 20 per cent of the national population growth to become one of Australia's fastest-growing states.

The new Refidex will show for the first time all the fixed speed-camera locations around Brisbane on the M1 at Tarragindi (map 180 J15), on the southern side of the Story Bridge (map 23 D5 and map 160 B13) and on the Bruce Highway at Burpengary (map 68 M18).

[Dean Quick]

Pity the rail network hasn't grown with the city!! Decades of inaction by Gov'ts has us now scrambling to keep up. If something is not done soon we will end up with a woefully inadequate network collapsing under the strain-much like Sydney!

[mufreight]

Muckup Mickel and Captain Bligh should by now have realised that with the rate of growth of the greater Brisbane area public transport will be a major issue at the next election, broken promises on public transport particularly rail has not gone down well with commuters and they should now be a little concerned as to how many commuters vote.  Roll on the election.