But today I could cheerfully have strangled anyone and anything within my arm's reach.
Oh, how I dislike the car park at Westfield Bondi Junction. It is huge and it has many entrances and exits; perhaps more than a centipede has legs. But try finding a space in which to park. You follow an endless line of cars all searching; all hoping they will happen upon a space that will be vacated just as they reach it.
Overhead signs helpfully indicate the number of vacant spaces in that section of the car park but try locating one of them. Where are they? You waste a major part of the first two hours of free parking circling the joint over and over.
I know it was silly attempting to park there on a Saturday just three weeks out from Christmas, even it was not yet quite 10am...but really, what is going on?
It's simple, really. Too many people. Too many cars.
ReplyDeleteOf course you could catch the train, or the bus. Even a taxicab might be better.
ReplyDeletewcs - the car park has capacity for thousands of cars yet still fills up
ReplyDeleteAndrew - we Sydneysiders tend to use our cars too much partly because of inadequate public transport (compared with Melbourne). The train service between the two locations is good except that yesterday the line was shut down for maintenance (usually happens half a dozen weekends a year) and would you believe the only regular direct bus service has a one hour frequency on weekends.
Appearances can be deceptive. Although at times there seems to be buses everywhere, when you sit down and look at timetables, the service frequency can be quite poor. Our trams generally operate on a twelve minute service interval or better during the day, including weekends.
ReplyDeleteAndrew - I know that you are quite the student on transport but there are some things that may have escaped your notice.
ReplyDeleteThere is a considerable discrepancy between the services that use Oxford Street and those that use New South Head Road. There is a far greater diversity of services and a superior frequency of those services on the Oxford Street run compared with what is offered on the services running in close parallel on New South Head Road.
This, of course, has nothing to do with the fact that NSW has a long running Labor Government and that Labor has electorates adjoining Oxford Street whereas New South Head Road runs through blue ribbon Liberal electorates that have never elected a Labor member.
Last time I parked there - each parking space had a green light above which turned red we a car parked in it. So you just had to look for the green lights and head towards them before anyone else. I know easier said then done.
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