61-year-old man in a serious condition after being hit by LRV

Hi, I thought it was look to the right, look to the left and then look back to the right. You need to check where the immediate danger is when stepping out on the road.

Tina Brooks Wonder if he was glued to his mbl ph ?????

Gabrielle Hadkins good question

Krste Saklamaev over a million journeys on that ‘waste of public funds. “

Bruce Hargrave More importantly that money should have been spent to fix our health system.

Yup – Bus replacement is in operation (according to the post)

Leigh Brady looking left and right, reading the post all the same pointless exercise apparently 😂😂

Darron Marks A great big HUGE one is apparently what’s needed! Lol

Tamara Kenna I think ppl who mention mobile phones as a factor may be onto something

Daniel R Burns thanks ended up driving didn’t want to risk it

Daniel Duncan Personally I think otherwise. The ACT Government was not Probably prepared for it

Brad Mann
By doing what exactly? It’s impossible to prepare for pedestrians who forgot to put their brain into gear before venturing out…

Burley Griffin would disagree, Canberra was definitely designed for something like this

You don’t have to listen to us lol, but to ignore the Burley Griffin plan is to ignore the literal design blueprint of Canberra. Light rail was literally conceived from the beginning

Huh..others have stated facts, not arguments to your “opinion”.

I agree Brad – the world wasn’t build for cars, busses, trains, or planes. That’s why we have these accidents.

Because we never had a car or bus hit a pedestrian in Canberra before 🙄

Surely people look for traffic before crossing the road. Trams are traffic.

Brad Mann yeah cause the concept of mechanically powered horse and carriage is totally new??

James Blake exactly right 👏👏👏👏

Trams share the road with cars. LRVs have dedicated corridors.

https://youtu.be/jj7U_afelFg

Russell Nankervis but the vehicles are the same. Either or when referring to the vehicle is correct.

Dominic O’Sullivan how’d you know he was “drug affected”?

Dominic O’Sullivan I was a Melbourne team conductor in the 1970s. The crazy people were the worst part of the job. Last tram to StKilda beach was where you got a few of the crazies. I’d expect the Canberra crazies to be a lot more upmarket.

My concern was that there was no obvious attempt by Transport Canberra to assist the staff members, to whom the offender and his companion seemed well known.

The red gums and willow gums are river trees. Were not suited to a highway medium strip. The new trees will start dropping branches in a few years as well. They don’t call them Crackly Gum for nothing.

Mark Oldrey yep that’s the new “improved” Northbourne Ave.

Malcolm Roxburgh ha, or Brittle Gum! Aren’t they already along the edge of Northbourne, Euc. mannifera?
Yes, the previous gums were River Peppermints, Euc. elata, and before that Blakeley’s Red Gum.
Probably better off with something deciduous… Chinese tallow, crepe myrtle, Chinese pistacio etc…colourful and medium sized.