Narrow streets are commonplace in city centres throughout Australia; now urban planners are paving the way for skinny roads in the suburbs.
Vehicle speeds, cost and stormwater drainage are all factors pushing councils to make their streets more slender.
Neil Sipe, a professor of planning from the University of Queensland, said narrow streets were the way of the future.
"You only need to look at new developments or go into any neighbourhood in Brisbane to now see a combination of really wide streets and more and more narrow streets," he said.