Transport Plan for Brisbane
The Transport Plan for Brisbane 2002-2016 is a document produced by Brisbane City Council describing their plans for managing Brisbane's transport needs for fifteen years [1]. It addresses council's own area, and also takes into account the larger Brisbane Metropolitan Area (which includes Pine Rivers, Redcliffe, Logan, Redland and parts of Caboolture, Ipswich, Beaudesert and the Gold Coast) and South East Queensland in general (see map 1 on page 4).
Key points
It acknowledges declining public transport and other non-car use and increasing car use (measured as a proportion of trips), and sets targets for 2016. Bike use is claimed to be 2% of trips in 2001 and targetted to be 8% by 2016 (see figure 5 on page 11).
The plan is divided into six "strategic objectives" (page 14), but cycling is addressed under only one of those ("more clean and green personal transport", pages 50-52). There is little in concrete detail although the map on page 52 shows the locations of proposed cycle routes (but no information about when they might be confirmed or implemented).
The budget summary (on page 53) shows planned bike-specific spending of $58m between 2002 and 2016, out of a budget of $16.593bn, or about 0.35%.
2007 update
A draft update to the plan is available [2].
The draft revises the cycling mode share target from 8% of all trips by 2016 to 5% of all trips by 2026. It no longer lists cycling infrastructure as a separate item, instead lumping it with public transport ($9.582b in 2006—2026).
Comments can be submitted on the Council page [3].
