By Felicity Caldwell

Copyright theage

On the day we accessed council’s open-data platform, more than 3700 footpath complaints were outstanding across Brisbane, with issues including broken or cracked surfaces, blocked pathways, and overgrown tree roots.

When it came to footpath obstructions, the city, Valley, Coorparoo, Upper Mount Gravatt, South Brisbane, Indooroopilly and Toowong had the most reports, which could be anything from cars parked over footpaths, illegal dumping, or tree branches blocking paths.

McMorrow said footpath issues could make basic travel “quite dangerous” and affected the confidence of people with low vision to get out in the community.

“That’s overhanging branches, cracks in the path due to tree roots, e-scooters being parked where they shouldn’t be, signage boards not being particularly thoughtfully placed,” she said.