Last night we were traveling home on the 75 back into the city when the conversation came about the B2 class tram and what would replace it due to the DDA. B2’s are definetly the unsung workhorse of Melbourne having the largest seated capacity, best (debatable) ride quality and semi-half-decent airconditioning.
Which draws me to my next point. This. I don’t know what it is about the tram design proposals, maybe the entrants haven’t learnt perspective in design classes or something.
The concept behind lab3000 seems to be great but I rekon they should go straight back to the drawing board with the design finalists. None of them seem to really make any sense. I mean hardwood floors on a tram? Some of them just look like Citadis’ with different liveries. What is the point of a contest to find a future tram concept where the basic needs are overlooked or are not articulated in a future vision to help cope with the growing population?
Actually, this one here looks like it was drawn in paint.
I can only hope that one day we see a new ultra low floor tram with a similar interior arrangement to the B2 and is Australian designed and built.
Andy B from Spatula City wrote about a Great Movie Moment from the 1980 film Airplane! I knew we had a copy of the film somewhere at home but I couldn’t remember where it was stored and in what format. So after a quck seach in the garage, I present for your consideration Airplane in super 8.
Here it is, the libary case is in fantastic condition, looks promising.
Opening the first reel cover. The reel smells bad. Hopefully it hasn’t faded too much.
I laced the film up and the projector shuddered to a stop. No wonder it hasn’t been played for a long time. The film has turned red but is still watchable.
Luckily, it was a full version of the film. One problem I had was that this particular version had all the jive talking taken out.
If I ever win the lottery, get a payraise or get off my arse and finish learning how to drive then the Mitusbishi Evo is on the list of cars to buy. Watch it here.
I wrote about a keychain error message that did not have any meaning. The above is a screenshot from Apple’s Safari browser. Trying to access the Australian eBay from Safari returns this strange error every single time. Emptying the cache, history and even resetting Safari completely doesn’t seem to resolve the problem.
I can access the Australian eBay from my other Mac which has an earlier version of Safari. Really inconvienient stuff.
Another entry in the Lets Sling Shit At Moonee Ponds series, I put the above photo up for consideration. I was wating for the bus sometime last week when the local sanitation expert came past to empty the bins. Now the bins were originally resting on the left had side of the bus stop with the pole in the vertical position.
The pole and the bins both dissappeared behind the truck and then revealed themselves in this state. There is now little doubt that the council recruited these sanitation experts from a remote Adelade town better known for serial killers and incestial relationships.
I suppose it could be worse, the people a couple of houses up found their bins a few blocks away.
I’ve been sick since last night. A trip to the hospital came up with a case food posioning. It’s not extreme; just a matter of having easy access to a bathroom just in case.
There were plans made to take a trip up to Phillip Island for the MotoGP departing today and returning Tuesday with a group of friends. Weeks of planning and organisation gone thanks to some bad food.
I’m supposed to be somewhere else. I’m really annoyed.
The devorcee father of a friend of mine has been going out with an Asian woman for the past couple of months now. I’ve only met her once and I think the cartoon above sums up pretty well the kind of relationship they have.
This week’s TGI Fridays award goes to several recipients: Connex, Otis lifts and the Melbourne Central Station authority for taking the slow road when it comes to repairing/maintaining an escalator on the Swanston St side of the station concourse. The escalator leading to the lower (3/4) platforms has been taken out of service “UFN” since the 4/6/2006 to replace the stair chains.
The task of replacing the chains isn’t normally a small one however clearly there has been little planning on the side of the authority for the massive undertaking.
Now that the food court has been built inside the concourse there is a greater inefficiency associated with having to take an escalator down to platform one/two, wade through the passengers then finally to platform three/four rather than walk through the concourse to the Elizabeth St side. The other issue is related to the fact that the one remaining escalator direction isn’t changed in line with the peak hour demand.
My other issue with all the underground stations is the placement of the monitors at the concourse level. Clearly intelligent creatures were given the job of determining where they were to be installed. Take Parliment station for instance. If you come in from the McArthur Road entrance the Broadmeadows PID is concealed by a column. My opinion: remove the bloddy column.
