The Brisbane City Council has unveiled its $190 million plan for a new pedestrian and bicycle bridge linking Kangaroo Point and the Brisbane Botanic Gardens.

The plan is to have it completed by 2024, but that will require the state and federal governments to stump up a third of the cash.

Brisbane Deputy Mayor Krista Adams tells Mark a bridge across the river there has been on the drawing boards since the 1860s and its time has now come.

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