Residents in the fast-growing Moreton Bay Council should be able to work closer to home, and the region should become an employment hub and major city centre, the local mayor says.

It comes amid predictions within 20 years Moreton Bay will have 690,000 residents, compared to Brisbane city’s 1.6 million.

While there are a number of multi-billion dollar options being floated to ease congestion in the rapidly growing region, including a six-lane underground motorway or an underground rail link, the local mayor has called for a “re-think”.

Mayor Peter Flannery has said he won’t let his region become the next Parramatta.

“I think the whole strategy around planning, we need to look at creating more job employment centres away from the CBD, Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner may not want to hear that,” he told Neil Breen on Brisbane Live.

“To keep pumping people more and more into the city … that infrastructure is already a choking point now.”

The council wants to lure more businesses to the region, closer to people’s homes and create multiple city centres in Queensland.

He said the model of “building all those roads that lead to Rome” is unsustainable.

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