In a letter despatched to Miles, Opposition Chief David Crisafulli, Schrinner and different ranges of presidency, retired city planner Marian Wheeler argued there was no appropriate location within the hilly geography of Victoria Park for a “50m to 60m excessive stadium with a footprint of 12 to fifteen hectares”, after analyzing 4 places together with over the Internal Metropolis Bypass.
“Any stadium at Victoria Park, like Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium, would utterly dominate Victoria Park and make the park an space of concrete, relatively than open, inexperienced house,” her letter learn.
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Wheeler added that public transport benefits of getting a “billion-dollar plus” Cross River Rail station and a brand new $450 million Brisbane Metro station beside the Gabba had been being ignored, “making a mockery of the general public funding”.
“Presently 26 bus routes utilise the Woolloongabba Metro Station, giving direct entry to the location for a lot of of Brisbane’s southside suburbs.
“If Woolloongabba is changed as Brisbane’s spherical stadium or made right into a park to make up for the lack of house at Victoria Park, it could make a mockery of the general public funding so far at that location.”
What the previous mayors say
Campbell Newman (Brisbane lord mayor 2004-2011): “Victoria Park was put aside within the 1870s by residents who had a imaginative and prescient of an exquisite 130 hectare inner-city park. An enormous stadium is a physique blow to that imaginative and prescient – it’s important to now shield the park in order that it stays totally accessible public inexperienced house all the time.”
Tim Quinn (2003-4): “Hyde Park, Central Park and The Area give London, New York and
Sydney their character and their respiration house. That’s what Victoria Park must be. Not a
stadium. Repair up the opposite stadiums and preserve Victoria Park as a everlasting inexperienced legacy.”
Jim Soorley (1991-2003): “Folks preserve speaking a couple of legacy. What higher legacy is there than to
have a park like this, so massive and so near town with good views. It’s our very personal Central
Park. It could be insanity to construct over it with a stadium.”
Sallyanne Atkinson (1985-1991): “Brisbane wants inexperienced areas near town to be its lungs. As an area councillor I fought – and sadly misplaced – a marketing campaign to save lots of essential inexperienced house in Fig
Tree Pocket. We should not lose this one.”
Bryan Walsh (1975-76): “The Olympic legacy for which we should always intention is a profitable Video games in
venues that we are able to afford and which shall be totally utilised sooner or later – not some legacy of bricks
and mortar with restricted use and accompanied by the lack of an excellent and delightful open inexperienced
house on the door step of the interior metropolis.”