Hilarious piece of bile on the editorial page of the Herald Sun today: A gridlocked city.
Apparently Melbourne is heading towards being "a gridlocked ghost town" - an incongruous juxtaposition if even there was one (that would make Melbourne the world's busiest ghost town).
I've never understood the argument that CBD shops need people to drive to them when there are thousands of potential customers pouring off trams, trains, and buses all day every weekday. A lack of cars in the CBD is just going to make it a more pleasant place to shop.
There probably is a tendency away from the CBD to suburban shopping centres, not because of parking problems in the city but because most people live in the suburbs so their local shopping centre is closer and more convenient. Come on, who is going to drive into the city from Kilsyth (say, an hour in the car) when the Knox Consumer's Paradise is two minutes away?
It appears that the editorial writer at the Herald Sun has just got a parking fine and needed to let off a little steam, concluding:
And from the comfort of their taxpayer funded limos, the best advice Bracks ministers have been able to offer motorists so far has been that they should take public transport, ride a bike or walk to work.
And this would be a bad thing, how?
If the city survives, it may come to that thanks to their bungling.
Bungling? That sounds like a fantastic result to me.
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Hilarious. Well at least he didn't blame cyclists for the congestion........
This sounds so familiar, just like some articles that have been appearing in Sydney papers.
Motorists complain because the roads are congested. The solution … build more roads. More cars now use the roads, leading to even more congestion… so motorists complain.
Motorists complain that there is not enough parking in the city. The solution … make the use of the limited parking available more equitable by installing parking meters. Motorists complain because they now have to pay for parking.
Motorists also complain about registration fees, petrol prices, insurance costs, cost of car repairs, road tolls, parking fines, speeding fines, sharing the road with cyclists, sharing the road with buses, sharing the road with trucks, and of course they complain about the behaviour of other motorists.
Makes me think that motorists are just a lot of whingers who will never be happy.