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An inner-Brisbane stay-at-home mother of two school-aged Aryan princesses has today urged her husband to talk to one of those councillors he always takes on golf trip to the Gold Coast.
Not about the upcoming residential high-rise development he’s trying to get up out the back of Buranda, or about how noisy the CityCats are during peak hour.
This time it’s about Lime Scooters. The bane of her existence.
Anna Leemaccas (40) says she’s all for improving public transport options around the city, but the idea of giving backpackers access to fun ridesharing vehicles is a bit much. Especially in a suburb like this one.
And especially along the walkways that have been built next to the flood-prone mud-brown Brisbane River that Anna and her husband has spent $3M to live next to.
“Look, I know this place used to be a bit Mafia” she says with her fingers making the shapes of inverted commas.
“But the area has changed a lot. It’s actually not for the riff raff anymore”
“Like I know young families have always live here. But, it’s not that same. Families like mine live here now”
Did you know those things can go up to 30 kilometres an hour down hill?”
With her PTSD-suffering rescue greyhound going off it’s nut out the back barking at leaves falling from trees, Anna takes our reporters back inside into their recently-renovated all-white half-acre Queenslander.
“I heard one of them nearly ran into some chairs outside a pub the other day”
“Imagine if my 9-year-old daughter was sitting on one of those chairs outside a licensed dive bar in the incredibly busy nightlife strip just 500 metres away”
“It’s just unsafe”
