Parramatta Stadium Rebuild and other stuff

[Eelogical]

Hey @Eelogical

I had beers at The Family Hotel the weekend before last. The first time in about 15 years.
There was a good reason for being there and it's a long story.
In brief, I was there showing a lovely young English girl who's her mum (a friend of myself and my mates) used to drink at while her mum lived here in Oz 20 years ago.
The Family is just a basic, rundown pub nowadays, but it brought back memories for me seeing Cold Chisel and Midnight Oil and The Angels and others, in their heyday.
Crazy nights they were back then.
Pretty sad that the live music scene is fairly lame these days.

Nice! It’s been a long time since I was there. I believe it was the Spur Steak Ranch at the time.

 

[Suitman]

Nice! It’s been a long time since I was there. I believe it was the Spur Steak Ranch at the time.

I believe you are correct.

 

[Twizzle]

I'd have taken you as a Bondi Lifesavers or Royal Antler sort of merkin.

all my haunts were around Parra

 

[Twizzle]

Pretty sad that the live music scene is fairly lame these days.

It's cheaper to get some DJ who will play all sorts of shit for $500 a night. Decent bands cost min $5K and most a lot more.

Also back then it was no trouble to down 6 or 8 schooners and drive home with no concern for being breathalyzed, no breathalyzers back then.

 

[TheRam]

Serious question, apart from the cost, what is the issue with toll roads?
I can drive on any toll road on the East Coast of Australia and use my toll pass without think about whether I will get a letter in the mail telling me I owe someone somewhere some money.

Serious response.

You will learn to love your servitude.

 

[T.S Quint]

I don't think that was a serious response.

 

[emjaycee]

Serious response.

You will learn to love your servitude.

I have a choice to use the toll roads or not, is that classed as servitude?

 

[TheRam]

I have a choice to use the toll roads or not, is that classed as servitude?

Slave to the man.

You are working to pay the man. How do you not see that, when there is a simple alternative and it is free.

We should be raising the funds from issuing the the money from a State or Federal owned Bank interest free and backed by the people. The way banking should be by the way. It has been done before, but they don't want you to know that of course.

Banking at present only benefits our overlords. I use these words and names for them because it is exactly who they are and want to be. This is not hyperbole.

All these assets should be ours free of debt that we build for ourselves. They have done a number on you and all of us to think that their private ownership is the only way. You are now just a renter and it is only going to eventually get worse, right down to the keyboard you type on.

I'm sure you have have heard the WEF line that 'you will own nothing and be happy'. Well guess what? You should believe them. They bloody mean it. Take them for their word. They aren't dicking around.

Like I said all these large utilities and land assets are ours, but they have slowly wormed their way in and sold them from right under our noses after we already paid for them and then wacked a renters toll on them or they refuse to build new ones without the renters toll placed heavily over them.

They shut all our major power stations down and then charge you extra tolls for privately owned renewable energy stations and grid that doesn't work as well, all in the name of saving the planet. Ha! While they buy up the best beach front properties and make out on carbon trading schemes like bandits.

Are you seeing what is happening here? Like I said, you are now working for the man more then ever before and you don't even seem to know it.

Like they keep telling us, You will own nothing and you will be happy. Well initially anyway.

 

[T.S Quint]

f**ken commie bullshit.

 

[emjaycee]

Slave to the man.

You are working to pay the man. How do you not see that, when there is a simple alternative and it is free.

We should be raising the funds from issuing the the money from a State or Federal owned Bank interest free and backed by the people. The way banking should be by the way. It has been done before, but they don't want you to know that of course.

Banking at present only benefits our overlords. I use these words and names for them because it is exactly who they are and want to be. This is not hyperbole.

All these assets should be ours free of debt that we build for ourselves. They have done a number on you and all of us to think that their private ownership is the only way. You are now just a renter and it is only going to eventually get worse, right down to the keyboard you type on.

I'm sure you have have heard the WEF line that 'you will own nothing and be happy'. Well guess what? You should believe them. They bloody mean it. Take them for their word. They aren't dicking around.

Like I said all these large utilities and land assets are ours, but they have slowly wormed their way in and sold them from right under our noses after we already paid for them and then wacked a renters toll on them or they refuse to build new ones without the renters toll placed heavily over them.

They shut all our major power stations down and then charge you extra tolls for privately owned renewable energy stations and grid that doesn't work as well, all in the name of saving the planet. Ha! While they buy up the best beach front properties and make out on carbon trading schemes like bandits.

Are you seeing what is happening here? Like I said, you are now working for the man more then ever before and you don't even seem to know it.

Like they keep telling us, You will own nothing and you will be happy. Well initially anyway.

OK, well I really just wanted to know what was wrong with our toll roads... but thanks.

 

[the phantom menace]

Is Casper among us again...?

 

[the phantom menace]

It's cheaper to get some DJ who will play all sorts of shit for $500 a night. Decent bands cost min $5K and most a lot more.

This is sadly true... and all the DJ has to do now is fire up their pre-made streaming playlist of other people's songs - money for jam.

Would much rather see something played live, but the days of being able to see gigs at venues in the suburbs any night of the week are sadly behind us. At least we have the memories.

 

[TheRam]

f**ken commie bullshit.

Actually the opposite of Commie bullsh*t.

It would allow free enterprise at all levels to thrive. The real economy would be in the hands of the people.

You really need to look into it. I think the commies and the fascists have done a real number on you. Maybe look up economists like Richard Warner or Michael Kumhof. Or even watch the best two docos on this in The Money Masters or The Secret Of Oz. Might wake you up a little. Then again the servitude in you is strong fallen brother. Maybe best to just wait for the bullet to come. Why fight it when you can have pizza and beer, right?

 

[T.S Quint]

f**ken capitalist bullshit.

 

[emjaycee]

I still want to know what the issue is with toll roads ffs.

 

[T.S Quint]

I still want to know what the issue is with toll roads ffs.

My issue is that they cost too much.
Apart from that, all good.

 

[the phantom menace]

Positive article re current development and future plans for Parramatta.

‘Barangaroo of the West’: Parramatta wants you to embrace its river after centuries of neglect

Western Sydney leaders want to transform the Parramatta River into a destination to rival New York’s Central Park.

www.smh.com.au

 

[Suitman]

Didn't take the SMH long to be negative again.......


The following article also doesn't explain that covid and more importantly, petty union bans during this work have caused these delays, but anyhow, I'm sure you all again knew this.

The only decent thing is that Labor have seen the benefits of this project and decided to complete it, for the betterment of the whole Sydney Rail system. It frees up so much more space through the city circle for other lines to massively increase capacity, which was the whole idea in the first place of extending the metro to Bankstown and taking over that line.
And, it won't take 15 months but that is just another bullshit sensational slant from the Herald without any basis or evidence. A lot of the work has already been done.
The Epping -Chatswood conversion from Sydney trains to Metro took 6 months.
Anyway, carry on with your agenda SMH. It's amusing.

Extent of disruption during Sydney rail line upgrade hinges on ‘trade-offs’​

Under a worst-case scenario, a 13-kilometre stretch of the Bankstown line will be closed for up to 15 months.

www.smh.com.au

Extent of disruption during Sydney rail line upgrade hinges on ‘trade-offs’

ByMatt O'Sullivan
June 4, 2023 — 2.53pm

Turning an existing Sydney rail line into one used by driverless trains will be a balancing act between disrupting commuters and the time it takes to complete the troubled project, the boss of the state agency responsible for the city’s new metro network says.

Sydney Metro will present options to the state government within the next few weeks about how to complete the multibillion-dollar conversion of a section of the T3 Bankstown line, which is already running at least a year late. It is part of the $20 billion Metro City and Southwest rail project.

The option selected will determine for how many months thousands of train commuters will be forced to catch replacement buses while 13 kilometres of line between Sydenham and Bankstown is shut to convert it to metro-train standards.

Edit:

Key last sentence:

"Premier Chris Minns has ruled out cancelling the Bankstown line conversion but has said its completion is likely to be “beyond 2025”."

 

[the phantom menace]

Meanwhile ICAC have confirmed these will be released by the end of the quarter (i.e. end June)....

Icac will release findings about Gladys Berejiklian on Thursday. What was the inquiry about and what could happen next?

The former premier has long denied any wrongdoing. As the NSW corruption watchdog prepares to hand down its report, we look back at how we got here

www.theguardian.com

*Edit: Sorry, wrong thread - got this one confused with the Politics thread...

 

[Gronk]

Talking about the Family Inn, those merkins who used to see bands at the Vicar up in Dural or the Local Inn at West Ryde might know (should know) Dee Minor and the Dischords. They are playing the Bridge Hotel next month.

I saw them last year at Frankies last year before they shut

Dee Minor & the Dischords - The Bridge Hotel

Dee Minor & the Dischords return to The Bridge Hotel in Rozelle for a some good old fashioned, authentic 80's post punk rock & roll!

bridgehotel.com.au