- Pinkenba, Queensland
Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Pinkenba
city = Brisbane City Council
state = qld
caption =
fedgov = Lilley
stategov =Electoral district of Clayfield
lga = Brisbane City Council
postcode = 4008
pop = 343 (2006 census)
dist1 = 9
location1=Brisbane GPO
near-nw = Brisbane Airport
near-n = Brisbane Airport
near-ne = Port of Brisbane
near-w = Eagle Farm
near-e = Lytton
near-sw = Eagle Farm
near-s = Hemmant
near-se = LyttonPinkenba is the name of a suburb in eastern
Brisbane on the northern side of the Brisbane River. Despite being less than 10kilometres from theBrisbane central business district , it has a largely rural feel to it. The area is spatially isolated from other residential suburbs and is surrounded by theBrisbane Airport to the north and west, and industrial land and the bank of theBrisbane River to the south. The suburb is accessed along Kingsford Smith Drive which passes an industrial area before reaching the suburb. Numerous development projects have been proposed for the area, including residential developments and an immigration detention centre, but nothing has ever come of it. Apart fromBP 'sBulwer Island Refinery , the suburb contains a small number of detached houses (primarily of weatherboard construction), primary school, local store, pub and industrial precints.Pinkenba is also the site of the now-abandoned Pinkenba railway station.
In recent years, the Pinkenba stretches of road (including Lomandra Drive, joining the main Pinkenba arterial to the East-West airport road) have become popular haunts for street racers and motorcyclists, with Lomandra Drive being a particularly popular stretch of road for motorcyclists to test the limits of their bikes, with some racers reaching 300km/h on the main stretch.fact|date=March 2008 Given the limited exit routes, racing and "hooning" in this area could only be regarded as extremely foolish, as a police lockdown of the entire area is, at most, a 6-car task.
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List of Brisbane suburbs References
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