Partying down on the Canberra Centre roof

Spent some of the best times of my youth partying on roof tops……………good times…………..

GardeningGirl said :

I was wondering if the recorded message was the result of an incident.

I remember the weekend before the “voice over” was installed, they had teens standing there asking people to hold onto the rail.

AG Canberra said :

dph said :

GardeningGirl said :

The Canberra Centre? The one that has the recorded voice telling you to stay between the lines on the escalators (at least I think that’s what I once deciphered)?

You can thank the pieces of sh*t who sue large shopping centres for that recording.

People sued them because they installed super slipery escalators and people were injured using them. Their insurers demanded the recorded messages because so many people (6 that we know of) slipped on them soon after the new section opened a few years ago. Of those six, three required ambulances and all were injured to a decent extent – broken wrist, cracked ankle, stitches required etc None of them were pieces of anything. Just people injured through no fault of their own….

I was wondering if the recorded message was the result of an incident. The rooftop partyers probably won’t be taken very seriously unless something happens and then the management will make a big show of doing something just to cover themselves legally.

It’s a funny world. It can be hard to find anyone to take concerns seriously before anything happens, the expression “failure of imagination” comes to mind. (The awkwardly slanting step in one of Canberra’s other shopping centres is of no interest to management.) But if something does happen then it’s panic stations. Can we anticipate the roof being covered in signs warning “heights can result in falls”? (Even though the responsibility ought to lie with the people who choose to go skylarking in areas where they shouldn’t be.)

The travelators should have been fixed properly, they are a publicly available facility and the public is entitled to certain expectations regarding their use. Or at the very least the recorded message should be loud enough and accurate…. “warning, hold on tight because we installed a bodgy surface to stand on and this recorded message is our cheap way of fixing the problem”.

Word on the street is that the escalators are to steep to begin with…

2.0 said :

AG Canberra said :

dph said :

GardeningGirl said :

The Canberra Centre? The one that has the recorded voice telling you to stay between the lines on the escalators (at least I think that’s what I once deciphered)?

You can thank the pieces of sh*t who sue large shopping centres for that recording.

People sued them because they installed super slipery escalators and people were injured using them. Their insurers demanded the recorded messages because so many people (6 that we know of) slipped on them soon after the new section opened a few years ago. Of those six, three required ambulances and all were injured to a decent extent – broken wrist, cracked ankle, stitches required etc None of them were pieces of anything. Just people injured through no fault of their own….

People need to take responsibility for their own actions. no sympathy from me.

I agree wholeheartedly. The Canberra Centre needed to take responsibility for their actions (slippery escalators). Or were you suggesting something else?

One is an accident, six (or more) is a result of not making safe something they knew was dangerous for their customers. Footware has nothing to do with it.

For the record – we didn’t sue. We asked them to make the escalators safer and to cover our out of pocket expenses. I do know that they were sued and rightly so.

AG Canberra said :

Just people injured through no fault of their own….

were they wearing crocs or flat rubber soled trainers? Were they holding onto the handrail?

AG Canberra said :

dph said :

GardeningGirl said :

The Canberra Centre? The one that has the recorded voice telling you to stay between the lines on the escalators (at least I think that’s what I once deciphered)?

You can thank the pieces of sh*t who sue large shopping centres for that recording.

People sued them because they installed super slipery escalators and people were injured using them. Their insurers demanded the recorded messages because so many people (6 that we know of) slipped on them soon after the new section opened a few years ago. Of those six, three required ambulances and all were injured to a decent extent – broken wrist, cracked ankle, stitches required etc None of them were pieces of anything. Just people injured through no fault of their own….

People need to take responsibility for their own actions. no sympathy from me.

I too have slipped on those escalators when they are wet. Yes, they can be slippery.

The CC just installed lights on the side rails of the escalators this week.

dph said :

GardeningGirl said :

The Canberra Centre? The one that has the recorded voice telling you to stay between the lines on the escalators (at least I think that’s what I once deciphered)?

You can thank the pieces of sh*t who sue large shopping centres for that recording.

People sued them because they installed super slipery escalators and people were injured using them. Their insurers demanded the recorded messages because so many people (6 that we know of) slipped on them soon after the new section opened a few years ago. Of those six, three required ambulances and all were injured to a decent extent – broken wrist, cracked ankle, stitches required etc None of them were pieces of anything. Just people injured through no fault of their own….