What cheeses me off

[Pushka]

Well thousands of people were inconvenienced by closure of major piece of infrastructure at the busiest time of day due to 1 person and their coughpy vehicle.

It's not entitled to expect signage to be accurate and better response to removing burning junk from a key road.

A sensible driver would have a fire extinguisher on board.

Is this it? The driver seems to have done as much as possible to avoid issues. But the deluge that resulted was the problem.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/on-the-road/stshow-sydney-traffic-nightmare-after-car-catches-fire-in-sydneys-m4-m8-tunnels/news-story/673eafd2c09e81c20a8fe5d89aded1c2

 

[Cossie]

Newsagents reducing number of staff behind the counter and you have 5 people in a queue and each is doing a complicated lotto thing, sigh, yes I'm old and I'm grumpy.
This newsagent wasn't like this before it was sold last year, always at least two counter staff. For the first time I also noticed a sign stating customers to be respectful and if not they will be asked to leave...... Didn't need it before.......

 

[Flashback]

Newsagents reducing number of staff behind the counter and you have 5 people in a queue and each is doing a complicated lotto thing, sigh, yes I'm old and I'm grumpy.
This newsagent wasn't like this before it was sold last year, always at least two counter staff. For the first time I also noticed a sign stating customers to be respectful and if not they will be asked to leave...... Didn't need it before.......

WCMO is people can buy their Lotto tickets in person when it can all be done online.... in the UK at least, I'd assume Australia is the same?

 

[Lynda2475]

WCMO is people can buy their Lotto tickets in person when it can all be done online.... in the UK at least, I'd assume Australia is the same?

Yep on the rare occasion I buy lotto tix I do it online, it is super easy to do.

I imagine these are the same people clogging up the line at AusPost to pay bills that can also easily be paid online.

 

[Flashback]

Yep on the rare occasion I buy lotto tix I do it online, it is super easy to do.

I imagine these are the same people clogging up the line at AusPost to pay bills that can also easily be paid online.

No doubt! Maybe it's the only way they can find to make them go outside (heck, even I have that problem myself in the UK especially during winter). So while I don't like it, I tolerate it.

 

[Cossie]

WCMO is people can buy their Lotto tickets in person when it can all be done online.... in the UK at least, I'd assume Australia is the same?

Yes you can, easy as, I only wanted a magazine, put it back on the shelf and walked out.

 

[RooFlyer]

Is this it? The driver seems to have done as much as possible to avoid issues. But the deluge that resulted was the problem.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/on-the-road/stshow-sydney-traffic-nightmare-after-car-catches-fire-in-sydneys-m4-m8-tunnels/news-story/673eafd2c09e81c20a8fe5d89aded1c2

Wow - a cough show indeed. Vehicle fires in tunnels extraordinarily dangerous (who remembers the Mont Blanc tunnel fire) & I'm not surprised the deluge was intense.

I wondered why they closed the M8 tunnel as well, and then I remembered:

 

[drron]

What surprised me when looking up news of this latest incident is how often cars catch fire in Sydney tunnels.
North Connect on 28/12/24 and the lane Cove tunnel on 15/12. And virtually every month through 2024.

 

[Lynda2475]

But the fool had smoke coming out of car and still entered the tunnel (barely 1km inside), and then instead of taking the immediate exit (the last exit for ages) to get out of the way pulls over creating chaos. Hope he is fined big time.

Unfortunately lots of people who drive shouldn't, most common tunnel issue albeit usually on the harbour tunnel is fools with over height trucks ignoring signage and then getting stuck cause they are too tall.

 

[Lynda2475]

WCMO today is departure board in lounge says flight is on time and to go to gate, announcement made stating the same.

Get to gate and they are announcing delayed arrival of inbound aircraft, still being cleaned and a wait for catering truck to materialise.

You"d think QF lounge would have better info re their own flights.

 

[Pushka]

WCMO is people can buy their Lotto tickets in person when it can all be done online.... in the UK at least, I'd assume Australia is the same?

Car registration is the same. For those who need to go to Car Reg for drivers licence photo etc, the queue is full of those who are lining up to pay rego. Although I think there may just be a dedicated line for non online queries these days.

 

[drron]

A Fire and Rescue NSW spokesman said they received a report the driver noticed smoke coming out of his car and pulled over in an emergency bay inside the M4 tunnel at Haberfield on Thursday afternoon.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/on-the-road/stshow-sydney-traffic-nightmare-after-car-catches-fire-in-sydneys-m4-m8-tunnels/news-story/673eafd2c09e81c20a8fe5d89aded1c2