• Salvo
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    10 months ago

    Meanwhile, in the CBD; “WhY dOn’T oUr EmPlOyEeS wAnT tO cOmE iNtO tHe OfFiCe?”

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      10 months ago

      Don’t you remember all those condescending train ads?

      Let’s go WORK from WORK

      • Salvo
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        10 months ago

        Do you mean the ones that were at train stations, and were targeted at people who were not at train stations, just before they closed all the train stations to repair the train lines?

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    10 months ago

    Australia’s busiest bridge? That’s the biggest bit of news in this article to me.

    I’m guessing it only has that title because the Sydney Harbour Tunnel’s traffic isn’t counted as bridge traffic? Even with the tunnel, though: I’m surprised the Westgate trumps the Harbour Bridge. I’m not even 100% certain I’d have guessed the Westgate as the busiest bridge in Melboune - it would have been a toss-up with the Bolte.

    Edit:
    Ha! Doing a (very) little Googling, I found that this article is almost a copy/paste of the same article from last year.

    Both articles claim that the Westgate is the busiest bridge in Australia, but I don’t see another source for this factoid. Interestingly, last year’s article says that Perth’s Narrows bridge takes second place. I never would have guessed that, either!

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      10 months ago

      I did a quick search, and according to gov estimates, the WGB is used by 200k+ cars a day.

      The NSW gov seems to place traffic on the SHB at 160k/day.

      The ABC puts the Narrows Bridge at “almost” 200k cars a day.

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        The NSW gov seems to place traffic on the SHB at 160k/day.

        Yeah, but as I suspected, if you add the tunnel traffic to that crossing:

        Weekday traffic on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Harbour Tunnel is forecast to rise to 300,000 vehicles a day by 2030, up from 250,000 at present. (Source).

        So, tunnel traffic doesn’t count.

        I see the Narrows every work day. I can look down on it from the floor at work. I run past it or over it just about daily. And I had no idea it was up there with the busiest bridges in the country.