Grilla took a stroll around Point Percy (aka Point Walter) and discovered a tourist trail that puts the covered bridges of Madison County to shame. The benches of Point Percy each have their own flavour. One has views but is actually in the water. One isn’t in the water, but faces a blank fence and scrub. Another isn’t in the water, has a view, but is broken. Must have been strong vandals to carry one of those mothers into the river, or is this the rising water levels we’ve all been hearing about?
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That first photo takes that phrase “cooling your heels” to another level.
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I like that; very punny.
The second one: Perspectives on a lost vista?
Nº three: Brokeback Demountin’: The Lost Rails?
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I wonder if those responsible for their maintenance would be prepared to take cut lunches to work instead of indulging themselves at the community’s expense each day and use the cost saving to repair the seats and the excess undergrowth?
I’m still waiting for Father Xmas to bring me something nice, too.
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I think you’ll find very few local governments provide lunch for their staff.
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Who’s talking about the staff?
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Oh, you mean the Councillors. I see.
They don’t get lunch either. They don’t get paid for their time at all.
Who did you mean? Or was it just a general ‘corporate fatcats/bureaucracy-gone-mad/taxpayers’ money’ moan, with no specific relevance to bench maintenance?
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Oh! Boy! But do some of them profit from their positions of influence.
Some of them even get nabbed with their snouts in the trough.
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Non-specific moan it is. Duly noted.
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Isn’t that where you catch the ‘Shelley Taylor- Smith’?
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‘no officer, I’m not cottaging, I’m simply recording all the park benches on Point Walter for an ironic archive.’
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GOLD!
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on more important matters…
any comment on the new proposals for Colin’s Creek shown on the front of Teh West today?
sadly no Swan Island or monorail, and the cable car to King’s Park is labelled ‘not part of the initial development, to be built later with private money.’
in fact, if you look closely, it is all marked ‘not part of initial development’, so it would appear all that Colin is doing is digging a rectangular hole in the foreshore, letting it fill up with fetid swamp water, then getting She-Ra’s developer mates to wrestle each other for the best commercial spots around the tide line.
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with a cycleway out the front. Filigree Siberian or what ?
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But it will be a vibrant hole. Channel 9 late news said so.
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still no mention about how traffic from Riverside Drive is going to get around, or under, the Barnett Bayou
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I assume they’re going to sink Riverside Drive (not part of the original development) or find some ridiculously complicated spagetti road system (which they will make flow one way, and then the other, and then change back over the next 10 years).
WAToday are calling it Foetus Island
http://www.watoday.com.au/opinion/politics/who-cares-if-it-has-an-umbilical-cord-just-get-it-done-20110215-1aurp.html
I think I preferred Carps’ Dubai version (pinker and more vibrant), but I haven’t spent enough time looking at this to be sure.
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Sinking Riverside Drive isn’t an option, as it would leave a 300m scar at the entrance and exit – have a look at the eastern opening to the Northbridge Tunnel, and imagine it along the foreshore.
I don’t give a fuck anymore. Would someone please just grab a shovel and do something?
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Let’s all do something ! Set fire to Barney : think of the vibrancies in that.
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300 metre scar, or a 500m traffic tailback.
or, if it’s really like the Northbridge Tunnel, 300m scar AND a 500m traffic tailback
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According to this (http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/waterfront-enough-talk-now-we-need-action-20110216-1awhl.html) Barny’s idea is to close Riverside Drive, and expand the tunnel by using the emergency lanes and use that as a replacement.
Now, I don’t have a degree in traffic planning, but given how poorly designed the tunnel exit/entry points are now, and how often it’s gridlocked at peak times, I’m not sure they have thought that cunning plan all the way through.
For their next trick maybe they could scrap the CAT service (to reduce traffic congestion) and re-open the malls to traffic.
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If you look at the two plans side by side one comes off as a wealthy modern city doing a multi-million dollar redevelopment with world class architects and planning experts. The other looks like they called in the Backyard Blitz team to knock up a pergola in the middle of the backyard and bung some curtains up to make it look exotic.
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Page 131 of central metropolitan perth sub-regional strategy August 2010
why is evryone surprised? Buzzy knows someone with a backhoe
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damn
Buzzy knows
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I had absolutely no idea that anyone really read that shit.
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It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’.
http://www.planning.wa.gov.au/Plans+and+policies/Publications/2234.aspx
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I suspect that is more a function of the quality of the render than the planning merits?
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didnt click both links
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no, it’s pretty poor planning. i think skink’s summary is just about perfect.
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It’s not even planning. It’s just drawing a picture and saying “wouldn’t it be ace if someone built this!”
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neat synopsis of visionary planning creating vibrant spaces
Here have a large bucket of money, some playdough, lego architect and go have a wank.
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Chatted with someone more or less in-the-know about new foreshore plan earlier tonight; agreed that basic concept is good while devil will be in the detail. Lagoon could well turn into a fetid swamp ala Dawesville Channel. High-rise development may well fuck the whole thing up. Stupid cable-car afterthought will fuck up Mt Eliza, if ever actually commenced, and whole project should be centered around cultural center such as vaguely proposed Aboriginal museum, rather than around developer free-for-all that will result otherwise, inevitably. At least we get a children’s playground on the mostly pointless foetus island, ha – Perth Eye etc V.2. Col says he’ll do the museum if re-elected – blackmail? Ah Perth.
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i’m sorry, with so many negatives i’m not quite sure i grasped the basically good bits.
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In short, emphasize cultural attractions such as museum rather than commercial development, otherwise it’s the usual cart before horse routine.
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lip service black fella engagement on Derbal Yerrigan
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Yeah well if done right it’s better than “La- Laguna’s,”- Perth’s most exciting new waterside buffet dining experience etc.
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will there be gondolas? I fkkn lurv mthrfkkn gondolas
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Gondolas up to your arsehole.
You’ll be able to leap from one side to the other on gondolas
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fkkn gr8
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I hadn’t noticed any.
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Hey everyone! Remember the Aboriginal museum that was to be a critical centrepiece of the Swan Brewery redevelopment, and the key to reconciling the sacred site protesters?
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There is a teletubby island instead.
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Great! Fanatastic! Will change the very nature of Perth! Not a Tourist Trap! Will abound with a reasonably priced collection of eclectic bars and eateries! Will not be full of cashed up bogans! Iconic! Vibrant! etc!
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Lovely worst.
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If only they’d had benches on Gilligan’s Island. The professor too could have stolen some planks and then used them to fix the small hole in their boat.
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But then, pete, just as they’re about to leave, Gilligan would do something stupid and they’d still be stuck. Imagine that.
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Oh, we loved these but thought surely they were an existential sculpture trail. Mistaken? Again?
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There’s a fine line…
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They are there to ponder the futility of existence as you first thought Deidre.
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Well “can half a bench be said to be…”
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Never abandon “Teh Classics”.
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I think the first bench is in the perfect spot, as long as you don’t break a limb climbing down the cliff face.
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Perth, the city of lost benches. I saw one making its way along South Street today. Perhaps they find their way to the river to spawn.
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The days of Point tha Percy
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Look at the tree is huge.
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Wired and gaint?
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gaint?
definately
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goant at the very least.
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