The price tag for removing a former floating restaurant from Brisbane's Bicentennial Bikeway after it was damaged in the 2022 floods is revealed to be nearly $4 million.
Taxpayers have forked out $3.8 million to remove a flood-damaged restaurant from Brisbane's Bicentennial Bikeway and river after it was damaged in this year's floods.The 200-tonne structure was pushed up onto the Bicentennial Bikeway during flooding earlier this year
The state government in March instructed the Queensland Reconstruction Authority to use its powers to remove itThe structure of the former floating restaurant known as Drift was swept onto the Bicentennial Bikeway during the late February floods., under the Queensland Reconstruction Authority Act, which had only been exercised once before following the 2011 floods.
The state government in late March said an independent engineering report had found serious safety issues with the structure, warning "in its current state, the pontoon is considered to be at risk of immediate and sudden collapse". Workers in April began cutting the structure into several sections in order to remove it from the bikeway.
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