The Mt Coot-tha zip line will also include a 'skywalk'.Credit:Brisbane City Council
With a little more than a week left to have a say on whether the project should go ahead,council had logged just 179 submissions as of Tuesday.
The main objections to the ziplines include potential damage to native flora and fauna,commercialisation of natural bushland and an influx of bus traffic.
Toowong resident Margaret Deeth told council a “stream of buses” travelling around Mount Coo-tha would affect local wildlife.
“The number of ziplines proposed will cause a great deal of clearing of native vegetation,and the number of people who will then use the lines on a daily basis will also have a deleterious effect on the natural area,and on the Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens,” Ms Deeth wrote in her submission.
While council is pitching the project as an “ecotourism” experience,many submissions believe it would cause “ecological degradation”.
Fortitude Valley resident John Mainwaring told council they should be funding more walking tracks rather than a “superficial form of tourism”.
Concerns about the habitat of powerful owls,particularly a nesting pair in the area of the proposed zipline,forced the council to request further assessments on the potential impacts,particularly around the use of helicopters during construction.