Also, the auction of Holden Bathurst sign was temporarily halted due to “online sabotage”. The auction will be re-run next Monday, February 26.
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Kia premiered its Ute commercial during Fox League’s coverage of the NRL season opener from Las Vegas today. It featured 20 past and present Australian sporting stars, including Kia ambassador Dylan Alcott, Ash Barty, Damien Oliver, Lance Franklin, Mackenzie Arnold, Steve Waugh, Darren Lockyer and Wendell Sailor.
The ute will be launched in 2025.
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Its been referred to as the Kia Tasman up until now
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What u have found to be more the case in Sydney then anywhere else is the traffic lights only stay green enough to let maybe 2 or 3 cars through in particular at peak times. You just need someone not paying attention and you miss a cycle. Especially if you are turning onto a major road some times the lights won’t go green again for 5 minutes or it seems like that. This is dangerous as people race to try and make it through the lights before they change. They should either have the lights green for longer or make the light cycles quicker. Only allowing 2 cars through is ridiculous.
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Yes most cities have some intersections like this but yes in my experience Sydney is the worst.
Two major arterial milestones reached in Melbourne over the past 72hrs, the other night EastLink tollway’s 3 year resurfacing project completed and just today the West Gate Tunnel project’s West Gate Freeway upgrade component completed:
https://twitter.com/ConnectEast/status/1765568733169520938?t=KRtckIoUlCN7qKh2B-d50w&s=19
https://twitter.com/WestGateTunnel/status/1766006691164823821?t=KRtckIoUlCN7qKh2B-d50w&s=19
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‘You need to be dealt with’: Yarra Council votes in favour of crackdown on ‘idiots’ owning huge utes
Yarra City Council on Tuesday night unanimously backed a motion by Greens Councillor Sophie Wade to investigate “ways to make travelling on Yarra’s streets more equitable and discourage large and heavy vehicles on Yarra’s streets, including by considering proportionate parking fees based on a vehicle’s size”.
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While I think driving one of these trucks is silly (unless you have a purpose for needing it), calling the people who own them idiots doesn’t really do anything positive to help it.
The truth may be painful, but these ‘yank tanks’ are here to stay, and will become even more popular. We will need to take this into consideration when building car infrastructure in the future.
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I’m hoping owners of Ford F150s and RAM 1500 etc “trucks” realise they are just too big for our city streets and come to their senses and downsize back into something more suitable. I wouldn’t be in favour of changing things to suit them.
Even Ford Rangers and Toyota Hiluxes are too big really, they are only slightly preferable to the oversized F150s and 1500s.
I miss the days when Falcons and Commodores ruled the roads, they are all a family really needs.
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I dunno, sometimes I think calling a spade a spade might wake a few people up. Tastes can also change over time and there’s no way of knowing if they’ll continue to get more popular or if people come to their senses of over time.
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Perhaps if we don’t build it they won’t come. Doesn’t seem fair to have to adjust car park sizes for example for wider vehicles that aren’t needed leading to fewer spaces overall.
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Yes, controversial but I’d like to see the likes of the F150 and RAM banned from shopping centre car parks where they simply don’t fit, and cause a hazard.
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This dopey truck driver caused southbound trams on George Street in Sydney’s CBD for at least an hour this morning. The truck and tram were still there when I walked past 20 minutes ago
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Well why did the stupid light rail driver keep going? They couldn’t see that they weren’t going to fit?
I didn’t see the accident live, but the truck driver was too far over to start with.
They might have been trying to turn left/right and gotten too close to a stationary tram.
There’s some really costly means of trying to do this - there’s an apartment building near me which has an elevator for the cars, because ramps would take too much space, which to me feels like a nightmare. Getting rid of those requirements should just come with a service provision requirement - same as any growth area estate - a tax on the land developer to go towards ensuring public transport services are adequate.
Basically, if you’re not within a 15 minute walk of a every 15 minute peak hour train/tram/bus, have a levy that goes towards funding service expansion. Getting rid of parking minimums is great, but if you don’t provide the alternative, it just leaves people filling up on street parking.
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I noticed that too in a news update, perhaps I could have done a live cross for 6 News hey @Leo_Puglisi6 !?
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