Montague Road, from Southbank’s Cultural district to the river, is a place of imaginative, diverse experiences and unfolding possibilities – showcasing Brisbane and its citizenry to the world.
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem
Concerned for safe pedestrian mobility and traffic management around the redeveloped Thomas Dixon Centre, in 2021 Kurilpa Futures approached The Queensland Ballet to partner with them on developing a vision for Montague Road. The resulting and on-going liaison with the Ballet resulted in Vision 2035 – created from the results of a community-initiated and led process held in the Montague Road precinct (2022). The results are documented in the companion document, Visioning for 2035: Montague Road Project Community Engagement Report.
Montague Road Community Vision 2035
Desirable Outcomes for the Vision 2035
Visioning for 2035, Montague Road Project Community Engagement Report
- Report Appendix G (large amount of raw qualitative data)
- Report Appendix I (large amount of raw qualitative data)
Stories of Montague Road
First Nations peoples walked along shaded tracks beside the river corridor to Kurilpa Point for business and culture. In 1902, Brisbane was the first Australian city to have electric trams, including through West End, up until 1967. This century, the Kurilpa and Goodwill bridges over the Brisbane River were opened for active transport only, and Victoria Bridge to the CBD was closed to private vehicles to encourage the use of public transport.
Two new active transport bridges are proposed from West End to Toowong and St Lucia, with increasing use of personal mobility devices predicted. Now is a good time to re-think how we imagine our future… READ MORE
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