On 26 Jun 2003 15:32:36 GMT, Jeremy Lunn
<spammers-must-die@no-spam> wrote:
>In article <ko2mfvc41bh82o7adqnipua29p4c8r8c6f@no-spam>, Anthony Horan wrote:
>> (a) the many, many, many office workers that head out for drinkies on
>> Fridays and therefore end up heading home a little bit later than
>> usual, and
>
>Then no doubt they'll head home well after CM anyway and hopefully after
>drinking, they won't be driving!
Presumably they'd be sensible enough to choose a designated driver.
I'm sure some aren't. But the fact is, it's just as busy, if not
busier, in terms of commuter traffic out of the CBD on a Friday.
> (Though it's a pitty that trains only run every half hour after ~8pm).
After 7pm in some cases, another example of the PT companies living in
the dark ages.
>> (b) the utter chaos created by the stupid concept of having 50,000
>> people coming *in* to the CBD to watch a football game at Docklands
>> that starts at 7pm.
>
>They can take public transport. It's right opposite a railway station
They can, and many do - but many don't, and the excess traffic is just
enough to clog things up.
>(surely there aren't 50,000 car parking spaces there anyway?).
Nope, which is why the streets around my building, blocks away from
the stadium, are always jam-packed with parked cars taking up
untimed-after-6 parking spaces when a football game is on, leaving
nowhere for visitors to park. I've seen people from the footy get in
their cars up near Exhibition Street, which is right across the other
side of the CBD. There's always a mass exodus down Bourke Street after
a game.
- Anthony