Once they rezone the school grounds as commercial, the developers will no doubt offer the Education Department top dollar for the land, which will mean they will have the money and no excuses to move the school to East Street, where it really belongs and kids will no longer have to congregate around Mt Lindesay Highway crossing, i.e. make it safer for the kids as they won't have to cross it anymore.

With the school land available for redevelopment adjoining the existing shopping centre, I have no doubt we'd get a bigger shopping centre for Jimboomba.

That's the least they could do.

Pretty much every other shopping centre has shades in the car parks these days, and those that don't have a disadvantage to those that do.

Sure there's the undercover section up the top, but there isn't all that many spaces there, as well as a long way to push a fully laden shopping trolley up the hill.

The problem out this way is often due to PairGain Systems (PGS), which is where Tel$tra run two phone lines off the one copper pair. Of course there's still issues with distance from the exchange that can prevent you from getting adsl.

The reason why there's so many lines out here with PGS is to do with costs, and the fact that developers and the council just let it happen to save the developers a few dollars, and the council being just happy to hear that the development has power and phone.

I'm just a little concerned that Logan City might decide that it is a good idea to bring the tiny 1/4 acre blocks out this way.

Some talk lately is that our rates on acreage might actually drop, but that's yet to be confirmed.

Another reason why people still travel outside the area to other shopping centres to do their regular shopping, whether they are pregnant or not.

Sadly the council's general lack of action in letting Jimboomba develop (in favour of Beaudesert), has prevented Jimboomba from growing as it should.

So what's the current feeling of people out this way who will no longer be Beaudesert Shire after March 2008 ?

Pretty much everything North of Veresdale will become Logan City in about 9 months time.

Anyone got any ideas of how much our rates are likely to be for Rural Residential when the change happens, and are we going to be milked for everything we've got ?


I wonder how Beaudesert is going to get on without the population density that we gave them, now that Beaudesert Shire is going to go over to Boonah and North to just shy of Ipswich ? ... and I thought these boundary changes were to make councils more viable in this day and age ??

Sadly you are in an increasing number of people who seem powerless to do something about this issue, as whenever it gets mentioned, people get shouted down with crap like the speed limit is a maximum speed, not a required speed, and things like you shouldn't be in as much of a hurry, etc....

What people forget is that in these rush rush rush days people are very time poor as well as somewhat stressed out, and that while they might not be in any hurry to get somewhere, there are others that running close to the line. All they do by slowing others down is add to the stress and frustration, and can indeed be the cause of some road rage by someone already predisposed.

Time and time again I have been on roads with 100km/h speed limits, only to have some clown sitting at 70 or 80km/h with their right hand wheels touching the white centre line of the road making it riskier to pass. In those cases I have found it safer to move to the left of the road to get a far better view of the oncoming traffic so as to overtake where it is safe to do so. Often what happens here is that the slow car gets one car behind it that finds it too hard to get past, then the big long queue builds up behind it, and then we have the examples like you mentioned above.

I suggest those that can't keep to the speed limit (subject to current road conditions), probably need to re-think their viability on the road, because if they can't keep to the speed limit because their car isn't up to it (shouldn't be on the road at all if that's the case), or because they are not competant at driving, should really be handing their licence back in.

Sad part is with these slower drivers is that they seem to think it is their god-given right to slow everyone else down to the speed that they want to travel at. They not only travel slower, but prefer to hug the centre line of the road in an attempt to stop people from overtaking them.

The closest you'll find is http://www.loganvillageweather.com

It's over here at Logan Village.

I'm somewhat biased, but take a look at http://www.overflow.net.au 

I would like to see it rebuilt to bring everything together, as at the moment it is very disjointed and all over the place.

To do your bankiing up the top end with Bank of Queensland, you have a bit of a walk to get to the other end, and most will park up the top, do the banking, and then drive down to woolies, but if it was all under the one roof, then you could walk in air conditioned comfort from one end to the other, like you do in shopping centres like Logan Hyperdome.

However, I don't see such a huge redevelopment happening for quite a few years down there.

Further to my previous post, I've recently been down Mundoolun Road, and have seen yet another example road marking paranoia.

I'll be the first to agree with anyone that there was a great need to improve the road markings on this road, however this new road marking has gone a long way overboard in certain sections in my opinion.

As I've only travelled a short distance on this road, I can only suspect the rest of the road marking is similar.


The sections just north and south of the East street intersection seems to be extend a whole lot longer than what I believe it should be, with 'straight' sections on the flat as 'safe' as any other road in the shire.

As I've said before, I'm not against white lines, just the excessive use of them that's all.

Has anyone noticed the trend over the last few years where a number of roads have been upgraded, and usually not before time, where the speed limits have been either lowered, or solid centre lines have been placed ??

A classic example is the newly upgraded Hein Road, where it used to have a 80km/h speed limit, until just before the roadworks started, and now remains a 60km/h speed limit after the road has been widened, as well as now endowed with a solid line down the entire length of the new section of road.

Did they decide to keep it at 60 because of stupid decision of turning it in to a sharper corner, or to deter people from using it as the shortcut to Beenleigh ?

Several years ago the Eastern end of Dairy Creek Road from Buccan Road to Gardiner road had a solid centre line painted on that entire length which is primarily a straight road, although there are sections where the centre line is entirely appropriate for safety reasons.

More recently we have the entirety of Buccan Road turned from a 80Km/h road with no centre line to a 60 speed limit and a centre line all the way down it.

One could easily think it's a plan to keep all the Beenleigh traffic on the Waterford Tamborine Road, right up to Waterford, but that's not right because of the always extending white centre line between Logan Village and Waterford, where for some reason people like to sit anywhere up to 40 km/h below the speed limit. Smiley

So what do others think of this apparent trend on our roads ?