Bunnings Fyshwick may be site for new railway station

The problem JC with Tuggeranong seceding from the ACT is the financial loss to the rest of Canberra.

The real issue is Tuggeranong costs the ACT government much less than a 10th of ACT Government expenditure, but the area provides a fifth of Canberra’s rates, a fifth of Canberra’s Federal funding to ACT Government and a fifth of Mr Barr’s income.

A cash cow to ACT Labor is provided by Tuggeranong residents and they won’t want that to change.

My feeling is that Tuggeranong residents just want some return on their rates and tax increases.

dungfungus said :

bj_ACT said :

dungfungus said :

bj_ACT said :

dungfungus said :

Bunnings at Greenway certainly are not moving. Security fencing has gone up around the northern and western perimeters and all those lovely shade trees in the carpark are to torn up for a major expansion.

I could be cynical and say that they are stocking up with gap filler to meet the anticipated demand from the recent apartment building in the immediate area but I won’t.

The Supercheap auto next door in Tuggeranong Square will also do well with the 2000 extra cars from the 12 Storey apartments stuck on one single lane feeder road around Bunnings.

SuperCheap moved to Homeworld about 9 months ago and Autobahn have taken over the vacated space at Tuggeranong Square. Autobahn had their official opening yesterday with 25% discount off most things; a bonanza for petrol-heads.

Last night I was talking to someone who bought an apartment across the road and she said while the experience of living in a new apartment was great the noise from “round the clock” parties there wasn’t.

The 62mm cloudburst in Tuggereanong last night will test the wet-sealing integrity of the latest constructions there. Traffic flow and car-parkeing there will be a nightmare.

Thanks Dungers for the update on the auto parts shops.

I’m no longer living in Tuggeranong, but I still see the lack of infrastructure support that the ACT government provides to Tuggeranong as an impediment to overdue improvement to the region.

Sorry to hear you left Tuggers. Despite the lack of infrastructure support that you alluded to and the way we are punished with unjustified rate increases, speed humps, continuing odours from the MLRMC (and threats of other nasties in the pipeline) it is still a great place to be. We haven’t yet been overrun with hipsters and because a tram will never reach here we are not bothered because we, like the rest of Canberra, don’t need one anyway. Yes, we are surviving and toughening up.
When the wheels fall off the rest of Canberra it won’t concern us.

Maybe tuggers should secede from the ACT!

John Moulis said :

As I recall, the tilt train option could not be used because the trains could not negotiate the tunnels at Molonglo Gorge. The only fast train option is the bullet train which must be approved and built ASAP.

Umm, that’s quite the non-sequitor.

If those three tunnels between Bungendore and Queanbeyan are such a colossal problem, then assembling a tunnel boring machine (to drill them out and thus make them wider) would be relatively easy. It’d only cost a couple of million dollars per tunnel. The spoil can be carted away from either end via a rail line that’s already there.

An even cheaper option would be programming the tilting mechanisms to briefly shut down three times between Bungendore and Queanbeyan. Computers can do stuff like that.

Meanwhile, a HSR would cost billions. While a HSR might be worthwhile on some grounds, your concerns about those three short and unimpressive brick-lined tunnels from the 1870s isn’t that good a reason.

bj_ACT said :

dungfungus said :

bj_ACT said :

dungfungus said :

Bunnings at Greenway certainly are not moving. Security fencing has gone up around the northern and western perimeters and all those lovely shade trees in the carpark are to torn up for a major expansion.

I could be cynical and say that they are stocking up with gap filler to meet the anticipated demand from the recent apartment building in the immediate area but I won’t.

The Supercheap auto next door in Tuggeranong Square will also do well with the 2000 extra cars from the 12 Storey apartments stuck on one single lane feeder road around Bunnings.

SuperCheap moved to Homeworld about 9 months ago and Autobahn have taken over the vacated space at Tuggeranong Square. Autobahn had their official opening yesterday with 25% discount off most things; a bonanza for petrol-heads.

Last night I was talking to someone who bought an apartment across the road and she said while the experience of living in a new apartment was great the noise from “round the clock” parties there wasn’t.

The 62mm cloudburst in Tuggereanong last night will test the wet-sealing integrity of the latest constructions there. Traffic flow and car-parkeing there will be a nightmare.

Thanks Dungers for the update on the auto parts shops.

I’m no longer living in Tuggeranong, but I still see the lack of infrastructure support that the ACT government provides to Tuggeranong as an impediment to overdue improvement to the region.

Sorry to hear you left Tuggers. Despite the lack of infrastructure support that you alluded to and the way we are punished with unjustified rate increases, speed humps, continuing odours from the MLRMC (and threats of other nasties in the pipeline) it is still a great place to be. We haven’t yet been overrun with hipsters and because a tram will never reach here we are not bothered because we, like the rest of Canberra, don’t need one anyway. Yes, we are surviving and toughening up.
When the wheels fall off the rest of Canberra it won’t concern us.

dungfungus said :

bj_ACT said :

dungfungus said :

Bunnings at Greenway certainly are not moving. Security fencing has gone up around the northern and western perimeters and all those lovely shade trees in the carpark are to torn up for a major expansion.

I could be cynical and say that they are stocking up with gap filler to meet the anticipated demand from the recent apartment building in the immediate area but I won’t.

The Supercheap auto next door in Tuggeranong Square will also do well with the 2000 extra cars from the 12 Storey apartments stuck on one single lane feeder road around Bunnings.

SuperCheap moved to Homeworld about 9 months ago and Autobahn have taken over the vacated space at Tuggeranong Square. Autobahn had their official opening yesterday with 25% discount off most things; a bonanza for petrol-heads.

Last night I was talking to someone who bought an apartment across the road and she said while the experience of living in a new apartment was great the noise from “round the clock” parties there wasn’t.

The 62mm cloudburst in Tuggereanong last night will test the wet-sealing integrity of the latest constructions there. Traffic flow and car-parkeing there will be a nightmare.

Thanks Dungers for the update on the auto parts shops.

I’m no longer living in Tuggeranong, but I still see the lack of infrastructure support that the ACT government provides to Tuggeranong as an impediment to overdue improvement to the region.

bj_ACT said :

dungfungus said :

Bunnings at Greenway certainly are not moving. Security fencing has gone up around the northern and western perimeters and all those lovely shade trees in the carpark are to torn up for a major expansion.

I could be cynical and say that they are stocking up with gap filler to meet the anticipated demand from the recent apartment building in the immediate area but I won’t.

The Supercheap auto next door in Tuggeranong Square will also do well with the 2000 extra cars from the 12 Storey apartments stuck on one single lane feeder road around Bunnings.

SuperCheap moved to Homeworld about 9 months ago and Autobahn have taken over the vacated space at Tuggeranong Square. Autobahn had their official opening yesterday with 25% discount off most things; a bonanza for petrol-heads.

Last night I was talking to someone who bought an apartment across the road and she said while the experience of living in a new apartment was great the noise from “round the clock” parties there wasn’t.

The 62mm cloudburst in Tuggereanong last night will test the wet-sealing integrity of the latest constructions there. Traffic flow and car-parkeing there will be a nightmare.

dungfungus said :

Bunnings at Greenway certainly are not moving. Security fencing has gone up around the northern and western perimeters and all those lovely shade trees in the carpark are to torn up for a major expansion.

I could be cynical and say that they are stocking up with gap filler to meet the anticipated demand from the recent apartment building in the immediate area but I won’t.

The Supercheap auto next door in Tuggeranong Square will also do well with the 2000 extra cars from the 12 Storey apartments stuck on one single lane feeder road around Bunnings.

Bunnings at Greenway certainly are not moving. Security fencing has gone up around the northern and western perimeters and all those lovely shade trees in the carpark are to torn up for a major expansion.

I could be cynical and say that they are stocking up with gap filler to meet the anticipated demand from the recent apartment building in the immediate area but I won’t.

John Moulis said :

The Spanish company TALGO reckon their tilting trains can do Kingston-Central Station in 2 hours. That’s better than us catching a taxi to the airport, checking in and waiting, boarding, flying, landing, disembarking, getting out of the airport, onto transport and reaching our Sydney destination.

TALGO are so confident they’ve offered to loan us their rolling stock for a year for free, to prove their claims.

So it seems smart to pull the line into Fyshwick and then help all the commercial guys move to Hume and Mitchell, and replace the entire area with super high denisity apartments (like Green Square in Sydney) for 30,000 or 40,000 buyers.

That’s one way to solve the housing crisis… mini manhattan. So sure, why not.

As I recall, the tilt train option could not be used because the trains could not negotiate the tunnels at Molonglo Gorge. The only fast train option is the bullet train which must be approved and built ASAP.

It was also reported the tilt train also renovated a couple of platforms along the way.

If smaller and lighter 2 car commuter trains were introduced now, travelling times could be introduced dramatically because the speed restrictions that are imposed on heavy rail traffic (to avoid damage to cuttings through vibration) could be lifted. These speed restrictions will still apply to the tilt train.

The Canberra Times has today published a Clarification on page 2 which states that Bunnings have made no decision to relocate the Fyshwick business to Majura.

Readers should be aware that Bunnings in the UK appears to be having similar problems to the ill-fated Woolworths-Masters venture in Australia: http://www.smh.com.au/business/retail/bunnings-hits-a-snag-in-british-expansion-plan-20170817-gxyik4.html