Centenary Line

[somebody]

To be honest though, I don't see much benefit in building a bridge to replace the ferry.  If you are worried about flood access, a road over the hill from Brookfield might be easier.  Or it might not.

[mufreight]

Either side the level of the land dips below the 74 and 11 flood levels, as for the bridge there has been a need for one for many years, when the original ferry was replaced with the current one it was at that time only an intrim measure untill a bridge was built, that was how many years ago?

[SteelPan]

You dare speak the unspeakable, as far as the residents of Kenmore, Bellbowrie etc are concerned.  

I mentioned the Moggill Bridge concept to my wife, who grew up in the Western Suburbs (Brookfield), and her response was along similar lines.  She suggested that the "blue bloods" of Moggill would fight tooth & nail against any idea of being more closely linked to Ipswich!

My response to that was (a) "stuff 'em, I don't give a damn about how they feel", and (b) "blue bloods live in stately country homes in England and there is no such thing in Australia and we're all just poor immigrants, convict descendants or cashed up bogans in some form". :-)

A decent flood proof bridge at Moggill would be a real asset to the region, as well as bringing the Moggill area closer to a rail station.  This kind of response is just NIMBYism in another form, and not to be tolerated.

YES, John Winston Howard and the Liberal Party AGREED with you and wanted to put a new bridge and highway in that very part of the world just a few years back - but "luckily"  for Australia, we had to endure, no sorry, enjoy less than 1 term of the "genius" of Kevin 07 and he killed the project in favour of "upgrading" the existing Ipswich Highway, so that when the upgrade opens, it will already be at saturation point - aaahhh the GENIUS of Kevin!  Mind you, it was so decent of the ALP to stand up for the blue bloods like that!

[colinw]