tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18909424.post773034555201640368..comments2024-03-24T23:01:11.766+11:00Comments on Melbourne on Transit: Peter Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13413976934040474125noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18909424.post-90706466432314321902009-03-05T16:41:00.000+11:002009-03-05T16:41:00.000+11:00Birrell is also a racist too. If he wasn't governm...Birrell is also a racist too. If he wasn't government funded I'd regard him as "fringe".<BR/><BR/>I think Melbourne 2030 has made zilch difference, and I don't think the granularity of making every little intersection, like say Middleborough and Burwood Hwy, into an "activity centre" actually works.<BR/><BR/>Start with CBD's. Like Sydney. Build your North Sydneys, then your Parramattas, then your Chatswoods, then your St Leonards. Once you've done that, then we can talk about your "Burwood-East-Central" activity centre.<BR/><BR/>I'd say Melbourne is stuck at the "North Sydney" stage, namely St Kilda Rd. No Parramatta in sight yet, let alone Chatswood. And our North Ryde (Mulgrave/Rowville) will never have a railway station, unlike the actual North Ryde which has three of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18909424.post-73778656558459990062009-03-01T13:14:00.000+11:002009-03-01T13:14:00.000+11:00My local stations (Thornbury and Bell) have acres ...My local stations (Thornbury and Bell) have acres of vacant land. The problem is, the area is a 'light industrial area' with some warehouses being cleared or turned into apartments. The area has ripe potential to have more pedestrian activity. But there are two main obstacles, namely:<BR/><BR/>1. Bell Street: pedestrian unfriendly and generally fairly awful in terms of amenity.<BR/>2. The Labor Councillors who know diddle-squat about this stuff and are about as spineless as one of Lynne Kosky's 1700 bureaucrats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com