haha having been on the receiving end of that rage I feel sorry for the traffic.
Well Iām being punished for that rage now surely when I go back to Sydney and play in traffic Iāll just hand them flowers instead of raging fits. 
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I always drive with both the air con and stereo on.
It doesnāt totally eliminate frustrations with the traffic, but Iām sure it helps.
You, rebel, you. 
Oh but I stick to the speed limits.
Iāve never had to pay a speeding fine in 30 years of driving.
Be like me recommending a visit to Walsh St Broadmeadows for anyone headed to Melbourneā¦
Why Walsh Street?
Lived there for a few years as a very young tacker!
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Near Eddieās old house?
Not sure, donāt think so.
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Heaven forfend you donāt get a one seat journey to your destination, your majesty.
Most major cities require users to interchange. New York and London, itās basically expected. Weird that Sydneysiders think theyāre entitled to a one seat journey.
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I have no problem with swapping trains and platforms. In fact, we should have had more stations and networks already built to cope with our population. The crowding at stations like Town Hall, Wynyard, Central and Redfern has been bad for years and now itās bad at some of the inner city stations with high density residential around them.
The state government is now building new infrastructure for what we need now. But by the time itās finished, the city will have already grown past it and it will all be overcrowded again.
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Yes we need a better strategy to decentralise our population.
Too many people want to live in Sydney or Melbourne, particularly immigrants.
Jobs are one of the biggest impediments to that.
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Yes. I have a schoolmate who moved to Newcastle because he just couldnāt afford to buy a house and bring up his young family in Sydney.
Although he doesnt need to work in an office or a fixed work location, itās still a pain becausd he has to travel to Sydney once or twice per fortnight.
And his wife canāt find part time work like she had in Sydney.
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Forget about driving smoothly across Sydney between 0630-1000 in the morning and between 1500-1900 in the afternoon. Youāre better off staying close to the CBD and relying on public transport which, despite its annoyances, is the lesser of two evils.
The main arterials (Pennant Hills Road, King Georges Road, Victoria Road, Parramatta Road, etc.) have two traffic states- āvery heavyā or āgridlockā. Freeways are a mess during the aforementioned peaks but the M7 deserves a special mention for its tendency to produce gridlock at all hours of the day; a small accident or breakdown is all it takes because thereās only two lanes in each direction.
July and August are the best months to visit Sydney provided you donāt want a beach holiday- pleasant, sunny, cool to mild weather. You will get a couple of smoky days in August as pre-summer hazard reduction burns kick in (but May is much worse for this). September can also be OK but often windy and variable, similar to Melbourne in late spring and early summer.
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Some direct flights coming to Brisbane
QANTAS SETS SIGHTS ON DIRECT FLIGHTS FROM BRISBANE TO CHICAGO AND SAN FRANCISCO
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AirAsia is eyeing more flights from South East Asia to Australia, following the reveal of its new Airbus A330neo planes at the Paris Air Show.
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Brisbane to Chicago!?
Wow, that would make it one of the longest non stop commercial flights in the world.
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acoroding to this it will be 14,326km and take about 16 hours and 20 minutes, depending on winds. When it launches it is likely to be the fourth-longest passenger flight in the world.
It will be the second longest flight on the Qantas network, closely behind Qantasā 14,499km Perth-London service.
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That will make it easy for Queenslanders wishing to trade a torrid summer for a frigid winter 
Sydney- Chicago would be more logical but I guess thereās already the Sydney-Dallas route, which performs a similar function (linking to a central US port).
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