A rant on Sydney roads
On Friday afternoon, I drove from Bondi Beach to Katoomba. It took nearly three hours for the 120 km journey. For the first 60 km, I was stuck in traffic jams almost constantly. Yes, I'm well aware I was part of the problem. I saw only one bicycle on the entire trip, a person riding illegally on an empty footpath. But who could blame him? The bike lanes, which were little more than a white line between the gutter and two-tonne of angry vehicles, were a death trap. I saw very few pedestrians. Throughout the inner-city, from Bondi to Concord, it was just a line of we stupid people in cars. I also saw very little public transport. The occasional bus stuck in the same traffic jam as me. I wondered if there was any incentive to catch a bus for my fellow motorists. I was astonished to see some lanes were blocked by parked cars. Legally parked cars on a major road! One person's convenience was enough to bring two lanes of traffic to a crawl. One single car owned this valuable real est...