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Jacaranda Avenue

"Quiet, Convenient, Affordable"

Lovely, quiet street, friendly neighbours, bus service to door, close to everything you need.

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Scarborough

"Nice neighborhood for young family, but bad traffic congestion makes for commuting nightmare"

average type of suburb, mostly small blocks, close to water, bayside area but no surf. Terrible roads congestion, no trains.

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Anthony4

I have lived in Scarborough now for 9 years. Where/what are you referring to as bad traffic congestion? If you discount school drop and pickup times, (which every suburb has) the only other traffic congestion is when visiting shopping centre at peak times! This is a wonderful place to live in with great coffee shops, restaurants, clubs and hotels. The area has had billions of dollars invested via new homes and apartment buildings. The council has been proactive and spent millions on upgrading the beachfront, with walkways, parks, b-b-ques sites bicycle tracks from the Hornibrook Bridge all the way up to Morgans. This is from Clontarf to Scarborough. Tigerlilly suggest you come back and spend some time and enjoy all the facilities the area has.

Fuji
Fuji

Traffic Congestion - You have to be kidding - The reason I live in Scarborough ( not just visiting) is the fact I can drive or bike to the Scarborough shops with hardly any traffic on the roads and get a park easily . Maybe you are talking about the bridge construction and getting across from Brisbane which can be tedious at times, but our suburb of Scarborough is at the tip of the Peninsula and once here the traffic falls away to hardly any. Especially as we don't have the population of some of the other suburbs with the new high rises on the Peninisula. Maybe your comments about the traffic should be made at the other suburbs you drive through to get here.

qldgirl

You have to be joking-Scarborough is a destination point not somewhere you pass through like Redcliffe, Margate or Woody point so unless you set out to come here or live here its VERY quiet, come back and then comment again.

Lilian

I agree with the above comments that there is no traffic congestion within the Penninsula, however, there is a lot of congestion once you hit Deagon deviation if you are commuting into the city everyday. The Gateway is clogged, Sandgate road can get very busy and Gympie Rd is often a nightmare. Frankly the tale told of 35 mins drive into the city is simply incorrect if you are commuting in or near peak hour. If you live in Scarborough or on the Redcliffe/Scarborough border as I do people need to know that they have to realistically set aside 1 to 1.25 hours door to door commute to the city.

ajifkins

I live near the top end of scarborough and work in fortitude valley, I commute 5 days a week during peak hour and have NEVER taken more than 45 minutes to get to work. what traffic are you talking about. I have never seen more than 20 - 30 cars on the bridge at a time in the mornings and maybe double that in the evenings. traffic congestion does not exist out here nor is it that bad on the deagon deviation and only mildly irritating on the gateway. I wouldnt live anywhere else.

ajifkins

check out this link to see just how little traffic there is http://tmr.qld.gov.au/Interactive-Map.aspx?wcid=410 check it anytime of day especially during peak hour and you will see there is little to no traffic congestion.

happyc3

Traffic congestion is everywhere around Brisbane !
The infrastructure is 10 years behind . This all started more than 40 years ago and is impossible to catch up ! Thanks Joe

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