Just In Case You're Bored

The wonderful people at King George Square have installed this mammoth TV screen that scrolls through the news of the day. Just to pass those few minutes until your bus arrives.

Road Rage Device

Apparently, San Francisco is starting a system of parking sensors in their parking spaces. The sales pitch is that motorists can be notified by their mobile when a space is available.

Sounds good if you're a fan of drivers reading text messages while driving. Or if you're a fan of watching road rage as drivers compete for the latest available spot. (Ah, the joys of driving ;)

On further inspection it seems the purpose for the sensors (no it's not compassion for motorists) is to signal the parking meter that the car has left, and the balance can be reset to zero. Result: no free parking by using someone else's unused time.

Hopefully the extra revenue for the city goes into public transport :)

The Joys of Driving

Idling in a car park, in a queue to get onto an already full road, to drive in slippery conditions while more rain falls....

Ultra Long-Term Parking

Who says we're addicted to cars? :)

Who Would Drive?

Was reading an article on public transport etiquette, and one reader (ChrisO) had the following to say about driving to work. Makes me wonder why anyone does do it...

Nothing depresses me more than the thought of paying five or six times my weekly fare in parking alone, missing out on the chance to read or work (yes, billable!) all so I can sit through half a morning with my foot on the clutch, burning petrol that cost more $$$ than my lunch, doing nothing more productive than daydreaming about the next or last change of traffic lights, or getting indignant and self-righteous about the loser in the nearby Land Cruiser who nearly wiped out that motorbike a suburb ago because he was sending a text.