Qantas gear up for airport traffic chaos?

They *do* actually check the carparks, sometimes. Last week, some eager beaver inspector had chalked tyres three times before lunch.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know the legalities of CAG staff issuing parking fines? In a previous life, I worked in the RG Casey bldg in Barton, and they were required to invite ACT parking inspectors onsite to issue TIN’s – would this be the case at Brindabella Park?

5.00 a day, 17.50 a week, 70.00 a month
or something like that
ant – they don’t park at pialligo cause its much easier to park in the 1hr car parks for the entire day, most of the time. just go out and check occasionally.. they never have inspectors here

i dunno – maybe the centre will be busy on its opening weekend, what with people wanting to check it out just because its new. but i think any interest will drop pretty soon after that. have you seen the list of stores that are in this place? it’s not exactly an exclusive club.

How much DO they gouge the Brindabella Park workers for a day’s parking there? Used to be hordes of them parking across the road near Rodney’s, but the people crossing the road are not so numerous now, so I wondered if they’d dropped the parking prices?

ant: there is SO infrastructure at brindabella park !

There’s TWO cafes ! and a subway !
and a Servo! and 2 ATMs !
and yes, excessively priced parking.
personally, i dodge the traffic cause i work on shift.
and, apart frmo the distance from home.. (20 minutes each way, wah wah) i think i prefer workin here to workin in civic.
of cuorse, we also get free use of the airport shuttle..

CAG ALSO sent out an email proclaiming some bullshit about a special night for Brindabella PArk employees, and, i kid you not, they sent it out to 10 pages (in word, font size 12) of email addresses.
They didn’t bcc, or in ANY way hide the email addresses.
Hello email harvesters..

VY – there are 1700 free spots. See their website…

I know plenty of people from areas like the South Coast and Riverina who will come to Canberra for shopping trips – there are already Seniors and other group bus tours from these areas that go to Sydney DFO at Homebush and Essendon Airport in Melbourne. I can imagine that some may come to Canberra instead being half as far away – assuming the shops are selling half decent product instead of absolute rubbish (the stuff they could not get rid of in Sydney/Melb/or god forbid Adelaide DFO!) …

Cool, so the first 3 cars get to park for free, everyone else parks like a spaz wherever they can and gets a ticket. Yep, it’s Canberra all right!

It’ll be a debacle, yes. The roads out there can’t handle the normal weekday rush hour traffic. Brindabella Park is a schemozzle.
I checked out the DFO at Homebush one weekend recently, and the traffic was crazy there, too. And there were no bargains! It was a swizz.

In the US, there are these Tanger outlets everywhere, and they are rather useful. They have special stuff made for them, plus the stores will send stuff that’s leftover there. If you check them often, yes, there are great bargains. But mostly, it’s just heavy-duty retailing. Some are fooled into thinking that because it’s there, it’s naturally cheaper, You need to know your prices to be sure though.

and yes, the parking will be free. Unlike the poor buggers who have to work at Brindabella Park, where there’s NOTHING, no shops no nothing, and have to pay for parking! After being in traffic jams to get there, and to leave.

I flipped through Capital Magazine’s new monthly freebie that featured DFO in its launch issue and decided that it’d be worth a visit if only because they’ve got brands there that aren’t anywhere else in Canberra.