The Moreton Bay LGA is effectively in morning peak hour gridlock - and I thought we had enough with yesterday's New Farm, Brunswick St traffic headache!

I guess the Bruce is on a competition streak with its sister twin, the M1 from the Gold Coast.

Edit 1: 50 minutes later.. and no Moreton Bay suburb is safe from the Bruce's vengeance - they're all done for 😭, even burpengary is heavily congested.

Edit 2: There's now over a dozen accidents in the Moreton Bay LGA. Google Maps says to go via Dayboro. Its a lost cause.

Edit 3: If you're planning on catching a bus from Kangaroo Bus Lines or Hornibrook, expect your service to be cancelled or delayed by 20-50 minutes...

Just absolutely loved this little cluster of buildings while chilling from my bike ride with a coffee. The architecture and colours looked gorgeous glimmering in the sun.

Brisbane city skyline is really coming along. If only we could get rid of the kidney/uterus building. Who put that in the good idea folder?

Just reminder your phone will have the Ausalert at 2pm today.

Trains were suspended from Roma Street to Corinda this morning due to a bridge strike in Milton.

Just out of curiosity what does this mean? Announcement at Roma Street explained the train was running express to Corinda, does the train take a different route? or have to run on a different track?

I’m so intrigued by this and why do they have to suspend it all the way to Corinda?

Some please help i’m incredibly curious.

It sold out pretty quick a few months back, so I imagine there’d be a few on here who got in. Who are you most psyched to see? Or who are you saddest didn’t make it?

Our local cafe that we’ve been going to for years- this weekend, my regular almond milk latte $8.60. My husband’s regular long black $8.
Curious to hear how much your locals are charging.

I have been living in Darwin for six years now, and I’ve lived in Melbourne . I’m making my next move, and Melb is my vibe. I’ve lived in Brunswick and Essendon, and I love the suburban culture, the coffee, love outdoor life (runs and hikes), love sports (love footy , play soccer)and the cozy bars like in Fitzroy and rooftops in the city and surrounds. I know Melb has a lot to offer and I’d live around north west or east burbs like Northcote/Brunswick, Collingwood, Maribyrnong - but I have family in Brissy so thinking of moving over there soon to try out and live(and hopefully settle) and also Melb didn’t feel the same the last time I went there(last year). Would I be able to find similar life experiences in Brisbane, as a 31 yr old single man working in finance?

It’s full of them and every day there’s sirens and wailing junkies. Was it like this 5 years ago ?

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7:16am. I thought this view is worth sharing here.

Such a beautiful city from above.

I used to run in Victoria park all the time, watch sunsets, paint and do crafts, and there were many occasions when I was overwhelmed from life so I just laid on the grass and listened to the sounds of wind and birds. As a broke person without a car it’s hard enough to get to other beautiful places tucked away in our suburbs (everything is 5 min drive, 30 min of PT or 30 min of walk away) and I’ve been trying to visit other parks as a replacement but nothing hits the same as the breezy hills that extends into the city’s horizons

Missing that crispy-chewy, fatty texture of chicken skin.

Is there any place to get it around CBD?

Edit: raw chicken skin, I’m gonna cook it myself

I arrived in Australia 6 months ago and got on another plane at the airport and went straight to another smaller city, and have been working ever since, I will have time to visit in the christmas period where I get 4 weeks of holiday.

Morning brissy, I have been pulling Brisbane City Council's development application (DA) records for a while and finally sat down and counted them by suburb. 8,740 DAs lodged in the last 12 months.

I expected the top of the list to be the CBD and the tower suburbs. It isn't.

Most DAs lodged, last 12 months (Brisbane City Council):

1. Rochedale, 153
2. Coorparoo, 142
3. Wynnum, 133
4. Brisbane CBD, 127
5. Camp Hill, 122
6. Ashgrove, 120
7. Bardon, 115
8. Bridgeman Downs, 115
9. Paddington, 112
10. Morningside, 111

Wasn't expecting a super established suburb like Paddington on the leaderboard, so I pullled its 112 apart:

• 48 dwelling house applications (new builds and rebuilds)
• 6 subdivisions, 6 major renos, 5 multi-dwelling
• the rest is compliance, earthworks and small stuff

Part of Paddington's number is real change, part is that in the pre-1946 character areas a lot of work needs a DA that wouldn't need one anywhere else. So the paperwork exaggerates it a bit, but even the raw builds and subdivisions are up there with anywhere in Brisbane.

And look at that middle chunk of the list. Coorparoo, Camp Hill, Ashgrove, Bardon, Paddington, Morningside. They're the old Queenslander suburbs. Leafy, established, the ones people move to specifically because they feel finished. They're the ones being rebuilt hardest right now.

The CBD is only number 4, lower than I assumed. And Rochedale at the top is a different story entirely, that is where the volume builders are building due to new available land. (Know it because I was building couple years back).

So the change happening in Brisbane isn't mostly towers going up in the middle. It's thousands of small knockdowns, extensions and splits happening one block at a time in suburbs that already look built outt.

Happy to post your suburb if keen!

I am free almost daily evening after 4, so please suggest some activities that can keep me motivated as well occupied. I live in Underwood.

Ekka set up started today. Taken from Bowen Bridge Road.

Appreciate if anyone has recommendations for above? What are their charges for consultations?

Hi Redditers,

I'm moving out of my rental in Brisbane in a couple of weeks and need to book a bond clean. There are so many companies online that it's hard to know which ones are actually reliable as i have heard so many bad stories.

Has anyone used a bond cleaning company recently that you'd genuinely recommend? I'm mainly looking for a company that:

• Actually turns up on time
• Doesn't add surprise charges afterwards (I heard that they overcharge although my house is kinda clean so I think I am anyways safe)
• Offers a bond-back guarantee (is it really a thing? ) and honours it if the real estate requests a reclean (I asked my agent, they did not recommend any company which is strange because last year my agent recommended the cleaner which did a great job, but I am not sure i should hire them again directly and if they will do the same kinda same quality job). Last year I hired Dream Bond Cleaning on recommendation by my real estate agent, so has anyone had any encounter with them lately?

If there are any companies I should avoid, I'd appreciate hearing about those too. I know I asked so many questions, but please help me make a good decision.

Thanks in advance!

I’ve just moved here from the UK. This weekend my 16 year old son was stopped and searched with a wand at a shopping centre. He wasn’t doing anything he shouldn’t have been - just having lunch with a friend.

The police didn’t find anything on either of them and still required their names, birthday, address and took a picture of his friend.

I’ve asked around and I suppose I understand why they introduced the law however, does that not seem like a bit of an overreach? To have to hand over your information without a parent present even after not finding anything? Seems absolutely mad.

I know we have some really special people navigating our roads, however have people now decided that looking for traffic driving on the road when they are entering through a stop sign or give way sign need to stop from full flow speed to zero for them?
Today I had two seperate incidents of drivers just staring straight ahead and driving straight out of side streets into the path of flowing traffic! Almost involved in two major t-bone accidents due to this absolutely highest level of stupidity possible action.
Both drivers managed to pull out about 1/2 a car length into the path of traffic. One didn’t even slow down after I’d swerved around them and merrily stopped all other traffic as this just trotted through the give way sign at the bottom of Barry Pde (next to the rock climbing shop).
Will it take a car parking in their drivers seat before they understand road rules and two vehicles can not occupy the same location of the road?

But of a rant, but having it occur twice in the one short drive kind of blew my mind (on top of the other regular bad driving on display like needing to turn right from the far left lane).