Summernats is something that needs to be experienced at least once in your life if you are into cars / being a rev head. It is a festival centered around cars - mainly Australian and American V8 cars. It is one of the best known car festivals in Australia, and it generates interest and revenue in Canberra - a dull city for most parts of the year. It also brings in a somewhat drunken exhibitionist type of person to the city, but this is a small disadvantage of the festival.
The Canberra Times recently published an article about how Summernats could be hosted in Canberra for another 25 years. It is also interesting to read some of the shallow and narrow mindedness of some of the commenters, who claim to live around Canberra when Summernats is on. They have said they do not want Summernats in Canberra - "Too much bad behaviour. Not good for the environment. Bad, noisy, bad..."
As mentioned, Summernats, for all its bad points, actually gives Canberra something to look forward to for the year. I will admit there are some other festivals as well, like Floriade, but nothing is to the same scale as Summernats. If Canberrians do not like Summernats, then I suggest they move away from Canberra. Try Karumba - population < 1000, on the beach, but then again they would find something to complain about that. Stop making Canberra duller!
Showing posts with label Things they could fix in Canberra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Things they could fix in Canberra. Show all posts
Monday, 9 January 2012
Friday, 6 May 2011
Things they could fix in Canberra #9.1
This is not a post in its own right, but more of an additional comment to a previous post that I made about the Gungahlin Drive Extension (GDE). Not much useful thought goes into Canberra, and here is more evidence of the single lane road that was to connect north Canberra to south Canberra - which was a short-sighted decision by the local government in Canberra.
These images were taken during Easter 2011, driving from Gungahlin towards Woden (ie. south):
Due to lack of proper planning, the local Canberra resident had to put up with delays and bottlenecks in traffic while using the GDE. And from these images, they would have to put up with them even more, as they have moved entire sections of road, and had to widen and reconstruct certain bridges.
I hope all Australians now realize why taxes are high. What else funds this stupidity ($85.5 million worth of it)?
These images were taken during Easter 2011, driving from Gungahlin towards Woden (ie. south):
Due to lack of proper planning, the local Canberra resident had to put up with delays and bottlenecks in traffic while using the GDE. And from these images, they would have to put up with them even more, as they have moved entire sections of road, and had to widen and reconstruct certain bridges.
I hope all Australians now realize why taxes are high. What else funds this stupidity ($85.5 million worth of it)?
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