I know this is a bit off topic but I can't believe what I noticed today. When we moved here 38 years ago we were told this street behind us would be connected through to allow another access out of this estate. This is what I noticed today, they have put a footbridge over the drain right across on the diagonal so that the road can never be put through. I guess the council got sick of people asking when the road would be put through. What an absolute waste of ratepayers money. Sorry about this but somebody may get a laugh. This world has gone completely mad.
And MF I would be surprised if more than 3 people a week would cross it, it is not like there is anything for people to need to cross it, there is no shops or sporting venues either side within miles. There is a train station at least a mile away. You never see anybody walking around the streets there except the odd person walking their dog. It is a 2 meter wide bridge so I guess they expect thousands to cross it. Bit like the " build it and they will come" theory.
Councils are just normal lowlifes, but with an agenda for themselves using rate payers money. We see it all the time. I've said for years that the third tier of Government needs to be eradicated and just have Federal and State. Councillors are just wannabe politicians that have no status in the community.
I live a 24 Hour lifestyle, but every now and again I seem to fall asleep, well at least that's what my wife tells me.
With a minimum of $40 a week, talking to a mate the other day, he pays $80 a week, in council rates, they are awash with money coming in and just don't know what to spend it on. I don't know how many houses there are in Casey, I doubt the council knows either because houses are being built so fast here that they can't keep count I just did a census check and in 2016 they listed 102050 dwellings in Casey. Even using the lower average rate of $40 per week that means they are pulling in over $4,000,000 a week and the way the housing is going at the moment the total number of dwellings will have probably grown by at min another 10,000. The money they are playing with is mind blowing.
If that was where I live, the Council would build a foot bridge, then tear it down a week later to put in a road, then a week later they would rip up the road again to build a bigger bridge.
A road re-alignment near me required a mound to be built which apparently helps to drain the water during a one in a million year flood event. They had to get it surveyed and drawn up by an architect on a master plan. Then a contractor had to build the mound, then someone else come in to landscape it with those damned Lomandra reeds. Total cost was over one million dollars for what is effectively just a mound of dirt. The silly thing is the mound is on a hill, so there is really no chance of it ever being flooded in a million years. A local tried to tell them this, but he was dismissed as an ignorant fool.
The flammable tiles on some of the Government buildings in Brisbane are another case in point. Instead of just tearing them all off and replacing them with another style of cladding, they are treating each tile as a unique entity. The problem is there are literally thousands upon thousands of tiles! So they are meticulously measuring and cataloguing and photographing every single tile. Then they plan to reproduce each tile to fit in exactly the same places, and basically reinstall them a tile at a time. At this pace it will take them decades. The cost will be astronomical.
Its OK BB I'm over it now, I just hate wastage in any form and everything about this throw away society just gets under my skin so much. I will go and have a Bex and a lay down .
Good day to you too CyberJack sir. I vaguely recall seeing both billboards for Bex and Vincent's powders at the same railway station! Norman Gunston always had one on hand for his guests, don't forget. I just read in the YouTube comments section that the Bex factory was in Crown St, Surry Hills in Sydney. One cheeky comment even spelled out what I alluded to earlier!
Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!
for a split second I thought you had said another word and it wasn't Rex!
