Angry Rant #34: A Bridge not far enough!

Yes, the Harbour Bridge gets closed off and everyone is angry because some guy is protesting about not being able to see his children – If every other parent in the same position did the same thing, that bridge would never be open. However, I do think he was protesting for good cause. 

But here’s a question – how can one man shut down a city? How - not why - but how?

Then when you step back and look at the state of the transport system, so roads and rail, and try and think of a reasonable explanation, you think for a little bit…you keep thinking…and then it hits you. You can sum up travelling to Sydney to anyone not from Sydney by using the following picture:

So now our newly appointed premier, Barry O’Farrell, is looking into the issue of how someone climbed to the top of the Harbour Bridge – it’s almost mind boggling to think how a person could get up there with so much security!....

Fat Man with Camera: Look at those protestors
 on the Opera House... that's SO Greenpeace. 

I've have walked along this bridge a few times - on the entire stretch of the Harbour Bridge, I saw three security guards. Three of them - and somehow Barry O'Farrell is surprised that someone got to the top by simply climbing it. 

Yes I know, he was driving on the Bridge itself before climbing it, but then what's the point of having security guards on the walk way if people can just stop their cars and climb the damn thing whenever they feel like? Then for that one man to shut down an entire city by simply climbing one bridge proves how fucked up the planning was of this city. 

Could you imagine if there was a terrorist attack in Sydney? I have thought about this for a few minutes, keeping in mind what one man can do, and then found a aerial picture to illustrate what I think would happen if a bomb went off somewhere in Sydney.

Or at the least, a late train. 

If there was a terrorist attack, I'd be waiting 3 hours to get my bread and milk from the IGA in Broken Hill. I'd be waiting in line for 2 hours at a Liquor Land for my rum somewhere in the church and bank-riddled Adelaide. I'd be waiting another hour for my flight in Perth....

You get the idea.

Australia would be so unprepared for any terrorist attack that it's laughable when the people running this country talk about updating security. Luckily, nobody else on this planet knows where Australia is, or cares what we think. Hooray for our non-existent country! 

Don't believe the lies and spin.

JM