Lack of pavements
Mar 24th 2004, 12:55 am
#16
BE Enthusiast
Joined: Nov 2001
Location: Back in Aus
Posts: 721
My theory about the lack of pavements in Oz is no one walks to the pub here, mainly because there isnt that many pubs!
Slap a good old boozer on every street corner, get them selling pork scratchings and jars of cockles, attract those finely toned 25 stone atheletes (darts players), make sure the pub closes at 11:00pm, (all the yobbos will be optimally tanked up and looking for a fight in the car park), put a curry house next door, and before you know it we will have pavements!
Slap a good old boozer on every street corner, get them selling pork scratchings and jars of cockles, attract those finely toned 25 stone atheletes (darts players), make sure the pub closes at 11:00pm, (all the yobbos will be optimally tanked up and looking for a fight in the car park), put a curry house next door, and before you know it we will have pavements!
Mar 24th 2004, 8:43 am
#17
Banned
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 4,432
Originally posted by hevs
LOL at megs. Are you actually a robot type machine??
LOL at megs. Are you actually a robot type machine??
Look, after parking cars at Milliways since before you were a species, here I am, brain the size of a planet and you want to discuss pavement?.
Mar 24th 2004, 8:47 am
#18
99.99999% there !
Joined: Feb 2004
Location: Essex, England, UK
Posts: 378
Same as in the US by the sounds of it.
The pavements (sidewalks) where I lived were essentially 12inches of the actual road that had been seperated from the main road only by a thin painted white line. Kinda scary when you're pushing a pram down the pavement and the great big yank trucks roar by only inches way from you :scared:
What with this and the soaring price of lettuce, sometime makes me rethink the whole move to Aus !
The pavements (sidewalks) where I lived were essentially 12inches of the actual road that had been seperated from the main road only by a thin painted white line. Kinda scary when you're pushing a pram down the pavement and the great big yank trucks roar by only inches way from you :scared:
What with this and the soaring price of lettuce, sometime makes me rethink the whole move to Aus !
Mar 24th 2004, 9:06 am
#19
(Jon) returning to NZ 04
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 816
product of a lower density population & drive everywhere society. same with the streetlights.
similar in NZ, but only really in newer less established subdivisions. older areas have footpaths on both sides.
I'm guessing that maybe it's the developers who are skimping...? Maybe it's only required by law to have it on one side and the council don't bother with another until the density of housing demands it. I could be wrong - just a thought.
similar in NZ, but only really in newer less established subdivisions. older areas have footpaths on both sides.
I'm guessing that maybe it's the developers who are skimping...? Maybe it's only required by law to have it on one side and the council don't bother with another until the density of housing demands it. I could be wrong - just a thought.
Mar 24th 2004, 9:12 am
#20
High in the Dandenongs
Joined: Apr 2003
Location: Listening to Puffing Billy
Posts: 9,183
Originally posted by Megalania
"Pavement! Don't talk to me about pavement!"
Look, after parking cars at Milliways since before you were a species, here I am, brain the size of a planet and you want to discuss pavement?.
"Pavement! Don't talk to me about pavement!"
Look, after parking cars at Milliways since before you were a species, here I am, brain the size of a planet and you want to discuss pavement?.
still making me LOL!!
