Sydney

[den]

I only had to stay in the one area of north-west Sydney with no public transport, and of course the Intercad training centre was in the area of Nort-East Sydney where there are no trains and few busses. I had to drive. ("DUN-DUN-dun!")

On a good day I could take the M2, a toll road ($4.40 each way!) but with no traffic lights. The run took 90 minutes normally, with the first, or last, 30 minutes being spent on Old Windsor Road. One afternoon I didi it in 60.



On a bad day the M2 becomes a parking lot, so I had to go via Victoria Road. If I was confident enough in my navigational skills, I could have avoided Vic Road but that would mean going along Pennet Hills Road ("DUN-DUN-dun!") to Hornsby, then down to Stives.


The markers show 30 minutes of travel on a good day. On the worst day it took me 2 1/2 HOURS to drive the 30km, 2 hours of that just to drive from Glenwood to the end of the M2.

I have got to get me a GPS.

The course was worth it. I have my Solidworksfu on and am ready to go when we get the new PC. First task is to update the assembly I am working on, then I have to start modelling the parts for designs.

Comments

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Sounds like "The Bishop" would have a heck of a time getting around!
"The M=2 Fred, don't take the M-2! It was too late. we was stuck in traffic!".:D

[jamesb]

The only good thing about driving in Sydney traffic is that it can be entertaining ... providing you aren't in a hurry to get somewhere, and you're driving a car that you don't have to pay to be repaired.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I didn't mention the Peugeot with a muffin on the roof, a-la the Ford Focus ad.

[jamesb]

I was doing daily commutes between Bondi and Marrickville in a company provided rental car. It was always entertaining ... especially when it involved watching the antics of drivers of either oriental or middle-eastern ethnicity.

:)

[arcturax.livejournal.com]

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&saddr=cincinnati&daddr=london&sll=45.3301,-41.321315&sspn=84.949353,162.246094&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=3&om=1

Re: :)

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

Re: :)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Trying to swim to Melbourne?

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[annvole.livejournal.com]

I took 45 minutes to move two blocks yesterday. For a few feet the 5 lane wide one-way street was reduced to 2 lanes due to a hole dug in the road. One of those 2 lanes is for transit buses only during rush hour. Right beside to blockage, in the bus lane, was a parked delivery van idling (cold enough here yesterday to see the exhaust). The buses had to get into the only lane regular traffic used to get around this guy. When I got there, there was a police officer arguing with him (and had been for at least 10 minutes before I passed him with a police car with cop-lights on behind him).