The Blarg of Fosnez

Well, Dear Blarg Readers, changes are afoot at Cairns Central. No I am not talking the good kind. It would appear that someone in Central's management team thinks it would be a great idea to introduce a ticketed parking system. You know, boom gates, ques, the whole shebang! What a fantastic idea, because I don't know about you, but I just love queuing up at those ticking machine, only to have the person infront of me maneuver their tank car so that they don't have to get out of it to get the ticket. What has bought this on? Well I can only assume that it is people (like me) that park my car there when we are at work. Before you shout "Sinner!" give me a viable alternative. Parking metres in the city are there to "encourage" staff of businesses to use alternative parking, now that central is getting the "lockdown" procedure, what alternative do we have? Public transport - Please, pull the other one it has bells on it. I have tried taking the bu...

This was taken near Cairns Central today. They are supposed to say "Danger Men Working Above". However, some good-humored soul has blacked out the "Above" so now all they say is "Danger, Men Working".

Here we have a blue "undercover" cop car (read that as "surprise revenue collection service") sitting right on the corner of Spence Street and the Cairns Central Entrance. Now if I had parked there, I would have copped a fine, I forget, can we still do citizen's arrests in this country? How about a citizen's revenue collection service? According to the Queensland Transport website and Sections 170 and 175 of the Queensland Road Rules, this car was clearly in the wrong. The area in red on the above map is a "no parking" area, as designated by the act. It is also bloody hard to drive around people sitting there when you are trying to get into Cairn Central. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?