Nothing too special this Sunday as I join with Elephant's Child and River for Sunday Selections. I need to get rid of some old unused photos, which is what Sunday Selections was all about.
I can't remember where this was taken but clearly it is no longer a bakery.
I think I was in the north west of the city when I took this. Have you heard anyone on a street look up to the skies and say, what a fabulous building. Me either.
The usual smooth evening traffic flow in the evening peak down below.
And up Toorak Road, but don't worry. A new road is being built and we all know how they solve traffic congestion.
Someone made a bad.
It doesn't matter how many warning signs there are about a street being closed, people will ignore them and like lemmings, others will follow.
They then ignored the U turn traffic lights and each car turned into Degraves Street, then into a short laneway from Degraves Street, reversed back and then drive out again, facing the opposite direction they wished to travel.
If a sign reads Flinders Street closed, it probably is. While there are some traffic thoroughfares in the city, why people want to drive around within the city, with obvious stress levels showing on their faces, I do not know. Trains, trams and buses serve the city so well.
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Always takes me by surprise that you post your Sundays on our Saturdays.
ReplyDeleteTasker, I publish at 5.00am here Sunday. Your suggested time would be ten hours later at 3pm, but then I would have alter that when you have daylight saving, again when we have daylight saving. I think there are only a few weeks a year where our traditional 10 hour difference applies.
DeleteAn interesting selection. You are right about the obvious stress levels of drivers in the city. In much of our city pedestrians now have right of way. Which I like (but don't trust entirely). I still watch carefully as I step out.
ReplyDeleteEC, you don't want be perfectly in the right but dead. I am never sure but when we last visited your city, I think I made a grave error when driving down Northbourne Avenue.
DeleteI am probably being extremely thick here but I can't make out what that fifth photo is about.
ReplyDeleteNot at all JayCee. It is a lousy photo of a boot print in concrete.
DeleteOur town was about 1000 people in the early 90s. Now it is about 130,000. Traffic is dangerous.
ReplyDeletethecontemplativecat here. My message is up there.. When it says "anonymous" I try to put my name where bloggers know I was there.
DeleteThat is amazing growth Cat. Why is this so?
DeleteAh, I'm glad that I'm not alone. I'm with JayCee on the 5th photo.
ReplyDeleteSorry Graham. I should have left it out. It is a couple boot prints in concrete.
DeleteAh. I can see it now I know what it is. Fascinating how the brain and eyes communicate.
DeleteThe first photo is on Victoria Street, West Melbourne, taken from the 57 tram perhaps? The second photo is further down the road, I’m the corner of Howard Street.
ReplyDeleteThanks. It is easy to see once the photos are enlarged. I will guess I was in Errol Street and just missed a tram and so walked a couple of stops along.
DeletePeople are the worst!!! Blanket statement.
ReplyDeleteOften Bob, but keep a little faith in humans.
DeleteCBD is not drivable at all. It is only more walkable.
ReplyDeleteWhich I don't mind at all Roentare.
DeleteYou could lead a transport protest with placards and chanting and everything. Many others would join you and you would become a national hero. There's clearly too much traffic in central Melbourne creating bad air for pedestrians.
ReplyDeleteI could do that YP but nowadays I prefer to sit on my arse and make written complaints.
DeleteDon't council regularly threaten to make the CBD car free? I think they should at least make it idiot free. The boot print looks like work boots so someone was in trouble.
ReplyDeleteCaro, there is some chat about that every so often but traffic is already so restricted, it would not make a great difference. Yes, one of the workers must have made the boot print.
DeleteI see enough traffic here just a bit away from the city, I don't think I'd like to live where I could see a million cars every day. I think a sign saying "road closed" should be printed on or attached to a blockade that actually closes off the road.
ReplyDeleteRiver, the problem with that is there are a couple of vehicle carparks in there and a lot of food and drink deliveries are made to the famous cafe street. I should have mentioned that.
DeleteThanks for clarifying that boot print, I was puzzled too. Here, our traffic jams make me laugh, you should hear the radio. Having driven in Toronto for years, often 24 lanes wide highways, these tiny tussles out here are minescule. A five minute wait has everyone apoplyptic. Adorable almost.
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WWW, and your peak traffic time last for twenty minutes I suppose.
DeleteWWW; 24 lanes? Twenty-four??? Yikes. No room for houses?
DeleteI agree with Anonymous that the first photo is in Victoria Street, West Melbourne. Hennessy Bros Bakers must have originally been a big business - you can see three shops fit into the one space now.
ReplyDeleteCorrect Hels. I expect at the time the bakery was very popular.
DeleteObviously people don't think the signs are for them. Much traffic in the city of Melbourne and surrounds, thank goodness it's not like that here and of course the busses on Hobart are in a mess Andrew, guess you heard about that.
ReplyDeleteMargaret, I hadn't but I now know. What a disgrace and it is not a new problem, having began as we came out of Covid restrictions. It is not like it is a terrific service anyway.
DeleteOn those pictures of the closed rode, were there any traffic barricades? If yes, did a motorist remove it? If no, why wasn't there?
ReplyDeleteNo Kirk. There are a couple of business car parks in there and also a lot of food and drink vans use the street to deliver to the busy cafe laneway.
DeletePeople just don't seem to believe traffic signs or perhaps they imagine tiny writing underneath which says, 'Except you.'
ReplyDeleteI couldn't see the boot print until it was pointed out, either.
JB, the drivers are focused on something but clearly not traffic signs. I suspect there may be a number who cannot read English well.
DeleteYes, the boot print was my bad.
I advise people to NOT drive into Washington DC, traffic is silly and parking hard to find and expensive. I seldom drive into the city, and I live here.
ReplyDeleteTP, it is probably because you live there that you don't drive in the city, as you know what it is like.
DeleteI was happy to see a new right turn lane being constructed on an often traveled route. It's always a pleasure discovering wise decisions implemented. Be safe!
ReplyDeleteA well needed lane Darla? I am trying to translate your right turn lane to our left turn lane and I'm failing.
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