Chinese embassy casts aspersions on College St

That Tiananmen square crack’s a bit sour.

Perhaps they could just put up a sign saying ‘natural selection at work’, and let it be.

Look Left, Right then Left again was something I picked up about the same time I thought Sesame Street was the coolest thing on TV. Coming to think of it, I may have learnt it from Sesame Street.

That’s my point, Thumps – they’ve got no chance at all on College St.

It’s true the different cultures have different ways of crossing the road.

But I somehow managed to survive their roads so I’m sure they can do the same.

Obviously the chinese students weren’t studying physics…

If they can’t get out of the way of tanks, then what chance of avoiding speeding College St hoons?

That’s funny — I’ve been meaning for years to let the Chinese Embassy know of my concerns for the safety of students crossing Tiananmen Square, too.

Ah so, but how many near-misses have there been involving students from UC on College St? I was on a bus that very nearly cleaned up one of UC’s ‘finest’ as she decided to cross right in front of the bus as it pulled out from the Bus Stop!

There should still be a proper crossing there – for anyone wanting to get to the other side. Even if it’s a quickfix until the proposed busway becomes a reality. I’m fed up slamming on the anchors, not good for my mental state either.

I’m going to cause trouble and point out that the proposed busway would solve these problems by taking buses right off College St altogether.

The likely route runs bus lanes parallel to College St on the UC side of the road and would have a single stop right outside the main entrance to UC and another one on Hayden Drive to service Radford College.

I also doubt that the accident has much to do with the supposed lack of traffic skills of Chinese people. After all, we’re talking about a single incident in how many years?

You might as well say that “all private school kids are too dumb to cross the road safely” since two Radford school children were hit crossing College St not long ago.

But I am Chinese. Cars cannot hit me.

A friend has a theory about lack of spatial awareness – try driving in certain parts of Sydney.

Maybe the Chinese Embassy would do better to look into the safety issues of Chinese coal mines and the Chinese Govt’s lack of interest in human rights, rather than worry about a couple of students who were injured through their own stupidity?

Can Stanhope put some money into a memorial for foreign students injured in car accidents in Canberra too?

Surely it’s not too much to ask either foreign Embassies or our Unis, to provide o/seas students with copies of our highway code or advice re pedestrian crossings etc. -In a language they can understand.
But in this case, Kerces is right, there should be a proper crossing at the residences/car park.

In China they run out in front of cars and the cars use their horns to get them “moving”. They don’t understand that we don’t do that here and that there is a crossing which can use safely or wait until the traffic is gone.

Just the gene pool at work, with some luck cleansing out the weakest.

I dunno, i’ve always hoped uni students had the brains to look both ways before crossing the road.

To be fair, at that bus stop a lot of people (more asians then anything) dash across the road there with little regard for traffic and I have come close to a hitting few because they couldn’t wait for a gap in the traffic. I suspect that this would have contributed to the accident aswell.