What cheeses me off

[Flashback]

Try the New England Highway in Barnaby’s electorate north of Tamworth. More holes than bitumen.

...... or anywhere in Surrey County Council. The wealth of the residents does not translate to the money apportioned to being spent on repairing roads........

 

[Quickstatus]

Trying to do a last minute booking for NYE (some place other that SYD)

Tried PPT and no flights on the day we wanted and some flights operated by Waymos

Then tried HBA, flights good but accom disappearing rapidly. Got the last reasonable hotel room by the waterfront after my other 2 preferred ones were rapidly booked out

Why did I get this last minute itch?

 

[JessicaTam]

The Fustercluck that is MEL Airport Arrivals pickup at T1/2/3. No wonder touts have business there. The whole thing needs nuking and start again. OK, maybe I'm spoilt with Changi, but I think if you had to design a pick up area for an airport of MEL's passenger levels, it would be a good start to take MEL and do the exact opposite.

On Thursday night faced with a long, slow moving Uber queue we opted for Didi which was also about $7-8 less. The problem is we did not heed my own advice to always book Didi from T4 (my excuse we had a fair bit of luggage, a pathetic excuse really). It took about 20-25 mins, mind you someone we pegged in the Uber queue only got into their Uber a few mins before us.

Traffic into the pickup area was devastatingly slow. People park there forever, instead of just 1-2 mins, they're sitting there for 10 mins and "authorised officers" do absolutely nothing, although if they did, they'd probably be subjected to intimidation.

And then there's the pedestrian crossing at the entrance to the area which blocks traffic flow in two ways - when pedestrians are crossing (of course), but noticed a new trick that people actually stop there for short periods as well. They just sit there even when pedestrians aren't crossing - presumably waiting for a spot to wait park in. We saw this happening several times. On one occasion two vehicles doing this just stayed there for about 3 mins before they moved - even though plenty of times with no pedestrians crossing. Meanwhile blocking other vehicles from having access, and I suspect jamming traffic back beyond the traffic lights. Just selfish a##@holes. One I think even was a taxi-van.

Hopefully the new drop off/pick up area in the multi storey car park will help fix this.

 

[JohnK]

Doom scrolling.

They want this banned because it is a way of scrolling through negative news? No, no, no. I am scrolling through news reporting the truth not the lies they try to feed me.

It’s up to you. You have choices

Fantastic. So let's leave the cash option there with no surcharge.

If it ain't broke don't try to fix it.