THE Brisbane City Council’s Labor Opposition has divised a plan to tackle an increasing number of deaths and accidents in its CBD — by slashing the speed limit down to 30km/h.

Lord Mayor Graham Quirk announced a review into the city’s road safety, calling for a year-long trial of the slow speed limits.

The review came after 16 cyclists and pedestrians were killed on Queensland roads in the past six months.

In May, Brisbane mum Anne-Marie Stent died after she was hit by a city bus while crossing Ann St.

The proposal, pushed by Opposition Labor councillors, would also cut speed limits on Ann St and Turbot St down to 50km/h.

The state’s peak motoring board RACQ said, however, it would not support a blanket speed reduction.

RACQ’s head of public policy Dr Rebecca Michael told 2GB the council shouldn’t be rushing the solution.

“We would consider, on a case-by-case basis, looking at a reduction, particularly for those areas where there’s high pedestrian or high cyclist activity,” Dr Michael said.

“Most important, we’re keen not to rush towards a solution before we really understand what the problem is we’re actually addressing.”

The proposed changes were discussed on Studio 10 Friday morning where co-host Angela Bishop applauded the speed limit drop.

“The sad reality is pedestrians are getting more dangerous to themselves and it has a lot to do with mobile phones,” Bishop said.

“Pedestrians are becoming less and less alert and if you combine that with drivers also playing with their phones, the slower you’re going the better.”

"Pedestrians are becoming less & less alert, & if you combine that with drivers also playing with their phones..." - @AngelaBishop



What do you think of speed limits being dropped to 30km/h in the CBD? #Studio10 pic.twitter.com/Mvwx8weCTE — Studio 10 (@Studio10au) July 5, 2018

Harold Scruby from the Pedestrian Council is a fan of slashing speed limits — even if it were to increase gridlock in the already notoriously slow packed city.

Brisbane is well-known for having some of the worst CBD traffic in the country.

“We’ve got to find ways to minimise the harm our roads. We were here first, pedestrians were here first,” Mr Scruby said.

Brisbane City Council scaled back its “left turn on red” rule in June in order to mirror NSW’s laws.

The “left turn on red” law is only allowed on intersections in NSW where less than 120 pedestrians cross per day.

RACQ’s head of technology and safety Steve Spalding told 4BC earlier today the adoption of NSW regulation would give Brisbane the opportunity to fix its busiest intersections.

“Now is the time to look at those sites, then to work with Transport and Main Roads and work out how can that site be improved so they can continue to use the left turn on red facility like they do now,” Mr Spalding said.