Canberra Centre wants to close Ainslie Ave

why would you bother to waste energy to heat that space? by extrapolation, let’s heat garema fuggin;’ place… ffs… back to nimbin with ye, hippie…

I like the view.

And I hate the doors to the original Canberra centre – they are tiny and thin and people are really pushy.

surely it costs a fortune to heat that place with the open space… couldnt they have some form of sliding door arrangements. you’re only there to shop ffs… surely you dont need a ‘view’ to do that!?

CanberraResident said :

I complained about a crappy coffee once; the staff at Michel’s did nothing about it. I hope they freeze their tiny little nuts off their chocolate eclairs.

That Michel’s is pretty mediocre.

Sina said :

CanberraResident said :

I complained about a crappy coffee once; the staff at Michel’s did nothing about it. I hope they freeze their tiny little nuts off their chocolate eclairs.

How petty some people are.

For Heaven’s sake you corpuscle.

And your comment is not petty????

FFS.

CanberraResident said :

I complained about a crappy coffee once; the staff at Michel’s did nothing about it. I hope they freeze their tiny little nuts off their chocolate eclairs.

How petty some people are.

Why do we say ‘Burley-Griffin’, anyway? Burley was his middle name, not the first half of a double-barreled surname. Maybe the Donald-Stanhope government should change the name of the lake.

Submissions may have technically closed, but it is up to the panel whether they accept late submissions. Suggest people agitate on this – it was a travesty to build on the axis.

a door would be an architectural travesty – the view up ainslie ave to mt ainslie from the floor of the centre is remarkable and a world-class aspect. no door, no door, no door…

The lights at the crossing actually work well.

Now they just need some lights at all the crossings on the other streets teh mall crosses over, up towards Gus’s. Someone is going to get run over for sure.

Last week a car forced it’s way onto the crossing, and the driver screamed at pedestrians to ‘just bloody wait’.

The title of this post “Canberra Centre wants to close Ainslie Ave” seems to misrepresent the DA they have lodged, which is to put doors at either end of the new section of the Canberra Centre. There is nothing in the DA to suggest they are proposing to close Ainslie Ave. It’s probably not a secret that the Canberra Centre would like Ainslie Ave closed, but I don’t think its going to happen – or at least until a shopper gets mowed down by a young kid in a stolen car…

There was talk, some years back, of closing off all the roads in Civic, including the bit of Northbourne that divides the Melbourne from the Sydney buildings, and routing all traffic around the outside, a giant ring-road.

And of course, back up til the 60s, garema place and petrie plaza and city walk were all roads.

It’s an open secret that the positioning of the Canberra Centre right on Ainslie Avenue was a case of corruption, pure and simple: the developers bribed the planners to ignore the law. Just like the MLC Tower (or whatever it’s called now) in Woden: there are rules, and if you can bribe or blackmail the people in charge, then the rules don’t apply to you.

Seems like a good idea, the road is pointless.

I complained about a crappy coffee once; the staff at Michel’s did nothing about it. I hope they freeze their tiny little nuts off their chocolate eclairs.