Comments on: Stupidity on Swanston Street

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[…] different flavour of stupidity are people who drive down Swanston Street – this driver managed to break down in the middle of the tram stop, and drum up help from […]

By: Photos from ten years ago: September 2013 - Waking up in Geelong

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By: Stuck fast on a Swanston Street tram stop - Waking up in Geelong

Stuck fast on a Swanston Street tram stop - Waking up in Geelong — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 20:32:11 +0000

[…] driving through the tram stops on Swanston Street isn’t anything new – but I was in the right place at the right time during my lunchtime walk, when I spotted yet […]

By: Police fining nuffy drivers on Swanston Street - Waking up in Geelong

Police fining nuffy drivers on Swanston Street - Waking up in Geelong — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 21:32:05 +0000

[…] about Melbourne’s clueless drivers before, especially their obsession with driving through Swanston Street’s tram stops and the Bourke Street Mall, but now I fear the apocalypse is near – I recently saw Victoria […]

By: Traffic jam in the Bourke Street Mall - Waking up in Geelong

Traffic jam in the Bourke Street Mall - Waking up in Geelong — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 21:32:04 +0000

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By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:10:35 +0000

In reply to mich. Good pickup - I've since change it to the correct direction!

By: mich

mich — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:04:52 +0000

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:02:02 +0000

You have highlighted many problems. Police Commissioner says they put their resources where they have the greatest safety effect. Clearly he does not have the resources for general road law enforcement. If people decided on a campaign of civil disobedience and used Swanston Street as a normal street for driving and parking along, there is nothing or no one to stop them. Look how almost every evening now, cars queue across Swanston Street in Flinders Street and block trams. Vic Roads can see it on their cameras as can Yarra Trams, yet nothing is done.

Clearly laws about blocking intersections are not enforced and technological means need to be put in place. Paint hatched areas on the intersections and cameras to photograph stationary vehicles on the hatched area, as they have started to do in England.

It is not always the fault of of the caught motorist who blocks the little streets. It can be the foreign born driver of a car in front who politely stops to let people walk against the lights and cross. Politeness is nice, but not over politeness that can result in delaying a couple of hundred people in a couple of trams.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 05:58:46 +0000

In reply to vbw. You're spot on with the 'soft target' line of thinking by police: someone on foot is a lot easier to pull up than a tuned out motorist with their window up. However the police do sometimes surprise me: a few months back I saw a police officer on foot at the south end of Elizabeth Street stepping out into stopped traffic to reprimand a driver who was chatting away on her handheld mobile phone.