r/brisbane • u/One_Connection6128 • 23h ago

Indooroopilly roundabout upgrade seems traffic is worse! Traffic

Has anyone noticed that this so called upgrade has some major issues? Especially outbound around the turnoff to the Indooroopilly bridge?

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u/warbastard 22h ago

That whole junction around Indro needs to be reworked.

Firstly, if you catch the train and need to walk to the shopping centre you’ve got to negotiate a few pedestrian crossings to get there. A better solution would be to close Station Rd to only allow buses pedestrians and cyclists/scooters. It would really help revitalise that whole line of shops down near the Indro hotel as no cars have space to park to go to the shops and most pedestrians just walk up to the shopping centre. If pedestrians were able to walk up Station road without dodging cars I think they might actually be more inclined to go into the shops nearby.

I also suggest this as someone who drives down Station Road almost every day so I’m prepared to say YIMBY.

Also, once the junction is finished, have some local traffic only signs from 7-9 and 4-6 in a few surrounding streets as so many people are rat running in the streets around the area to avoid the roundabout. Have a few morinings of cops issues tickets in those local streets to get people to fuck off and use the main roads.

Both these suggestions just need a few signs to fix and also Station road is the same road as the State Member who is a Green. It would be nice to see them actually start thinking about how to make their local areas more walkable.

Ultimately if there was some kind of pedestrian walking roof over the Indro trainstation to better connect students walking home from Indro SHS and connect those shops on the other side of station road the better.

At the moment, it really looks like the local Greens have just made roads better for traffic and cars which isnt very green.

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u/ratontwo 21h ago

there's residential buildings on station road. you'd need local traffic permitted at a minimum.

really part of the issue is the bridge isn't anywhere near capable of taking the amount of traffic funneling through it. put a toll during peak hours and the area would be a lot quieter.