Road closures for the Australian Running Festival

buzz819 said :

I really do find it funny, if there is something on, that someone doesn’t like, or agree with, they take it personally.

Dungfungus “I’m going to take my $35 else and waste more money driving somewhere else.”

I bet if you guys lived in Sydney you’d still be there beating your drums when they shut down the harbour bridge for there marathons and publicity stunts, get over yourselves, you live in a community, which means you have to put up with what others in the community want to do.

They never said you couldn’t get to the Auto Italia, they said that getting there maybe disrupted.

I actually spent more that $35 at a great restaurant/vineyard near Hall; about ten times that much in fact. It was a great community event – didn’t see any runners all day either but I saw some photos of them in the Canberra Crimes this morning. They are a grumpy looking mob. Which one are you in the photos?

No dramas for me getting to and from Auto Italia on Sunday. What a beautiful day it was too!

RaTTyRaTT said :

Well the irony is that while I have been busy working and that, imagine my surprise to find the roads blocked today. Oh that’s right – such a great job advertising that “everyone” knew it was on. Duh! please someone think a bit. 6 suburbs, combined with some ‘very’ major thoroughfares (eg: Commonwealth Ave down to 1 lane…) does actually cause some effects ironically…
Now, many people would say – “ooh you should have heard or read about it” to which I reply “where? and why would I waste my time checking those sites for possible disruption that may/may not impact me…”
In the end, I got round it, but there were some stupid places where the roads were blocked – and i pity the poor bastards who lived behind the barriers. (really, I mean some roads blocked at nearest cross-street, leaving about 500m of road not even being ‘run’ on. DUHHH!)

I know. I was driving through that section of town and it took me 3 more minutes to get over Commonwealth Bridge than it usually would.

Oh the irony.*

*Note to self. Check meaning of word irony.

Well the irony is that while I have been busy working and that, imagine my surprise to find the roads blocked today. Oh that’s right – such a great job advertising that “everyone” knew it was on. Duh! please someone think a bit. 6 suburbs, combined with some ‘very’ major thoroughfares (eg: Commonwealth Ave down to 1 lane…) does actually cause some effects ironically…
Now, many people would say – “ooh you should have heard or read about it” to which I reply “where? and why would I waste my time checking those sites for possible disruption that may/may not impact me…”
In the end, I got round it, but there were some stupid places where the roads were blocked – and i pity the poor bastards who lived behind the barriers. (really, I mean some roads blocked at nearest cross-street, leaving about 500m of road not even being ‘run’ on. DUHHH!)

I was thinking of going to the AutoItalia. Thanks for the link Felix, I’m not sure that info was there last time I looked, or perhaps I just missed it. Well done to the organisers for putting up a useful map of the event and surrounding roads. Why can’t TAMS put a map on their website instead of just a list of the streets that are closed?

Felix the Cat said :

http://www.autoitaliacanberra.com/

Has instructions on what roads are closed how to access show, really not hard.

Damn, I really wish I didn’t have to do this

*whistle blow*

10 Minutes in the penalty box for excessive use of common sense, be warned, next time your out for the rest of the game.

http://www.autoitaliacanberra.com/

Has instructions on what roads are closed how to access show, really not hard.

I really do find it funny, if there is something on, that someone doesn’t like, or agree with, they take it personally.

Dungfungus “I’m going to take my $35 else and waste more money driving somewhere else.”

I bet if you guys lived in Sydney you’d still be there beating your drums when they shut down the harbour bridge for there marathons and publicity stunts, get over yourselves, you live in a community, which means you have to put up with what others in the community want to do.

They never said you couldn’t get to the Auto Italia, they said that getting there maybe disrupted.

If people like the complainers here had their way, perhaps AJ etc would be right, and Canberra would become a boring place?
Luckily there are lots of people here who like to do differerent things (that may or may not ‘conform’ with your weekend plans). Humans are like that. It’s one of the things that makes the world an interesting and better place, IMO.
Enjoy life! Celebrate and enjoy diversity! TGIF. 🙂

dungfungus said :

Why the hell do these people need to close down 6 suburbs for? What sort of events happen at a “Running Festival”?

Perhaps you’ve just moved to Canberra….since the Canberra Marathon has been held around this time on this same course for maybe the last 20 years…

As a former resident of Kingston, I always found the disruption minimal.