This view from our apartment window is what the Hotham web site describes as excellent visibility. Fortunately it's a little better further down. The snow is getting a bit plowed up, especially since half the lifts are closed. Still having fun though.
We're doing xmas tonight in our apartment. Roast leg of lamb, veg, sprouts, all the trimmings.
I've been toying with an amazing new web analytics tool called ClickTale. It tracks everything
a user does as they interact with your site, so as well as the usual
heat maps and the like, you can actually observe a user's mouse moving
around, clicks, typing, the lot! Amazing, but somewhat scary.
Certainly could give some insights into how your users interact with
your site, particularly complex elements like forms.
Here's a video of me testing it out to demonstrate quite how
detailed it is. Wow!
I got a letter
in today's Herald about my lack of faith in the delivery of this
North-West metro the NSW government is promising. The bit they
chopped off was: You'd be hard pressed to find Action for Transport
2010 on any NSW government web site. Now why do you think that might
be?
A quick run through press
release confirms what I said.
AIRPORT RAIL LINK
Opened on time, but due to exorbitant prices, patronage has been
well down. If you live anywhere in the inner West, it's much faster
and cheaper to catch a cab.
BONDI BEACH RAIL LINK
Killed. Bondi NIMBYs didn't want bogans from the Western
Suburbs competing for space with Eastern Suburbs bogans, plus the
important point that it was going to be a privatised railway, with
associated huge ticket increases
PARRAMATTA RAIL LINK
Only got halfway, Chatswood to Epping, which completely defeated
the purpose of allowing passengers from the Western Suburbs to get
to major trip generators like Macquarie University and the growing
North Ryde technology parks.
EPPING TO CASTLE HILL LINE
Never built. This new promised metro effectively re-announces
it, but work won't start until 2010 which according to this press
release was when it would be open.
HURSTVILLE TO STRATHFIELD RAIL LINK
Sunk without trace.
LIVERPOOL 'Y' LINK
Never heard of again.
LIVERPOOL TO PARRAMATTA TRANSITWAY
Built. But just remember, this is a glorified bus lane.
BLACKTOWN - WETHERILL PARK TRANSITWAY
Still on the drawing board, despite the touted 2006 opening
date.
PARRAMATTA - BLACKTOWN TRANSITWAY
Still on the drawing board, despite the touted 2004 opening
date
BLACKTOWN - CASTLE HILL TRANSITWAY
Still on the drawing board, despite the touted 2009 opening
date
PARRAMATTA - ROUSE HILL (MUNGERIE PARK) TRANSITWAY
Opened in March 2007, which is actually ahead of the
schedule they set
PARRAMATTA - STRATHFIELD TRANSITWAY
Still on the drawing board, despite the touted 2002 opening
date
PENRITH TO ST MARYS TRANSITWAY
Still on the drawing board, despite the touted 2008 opening
date
EASTERN DISTRIBUTOR
Built.
M5 EAST
Built.
WESTERN SYDNEY ORBITAL
Built.
M2 TO GORE HILL
Built.
METROAD 7 (CUMBERLAND HIGHWAY)
Built.
CROSS CITY TUNNEL
Built, gona broke.
PARRAMATTA ROAD
Built, still a nightmare road.
PRINCES HIGHWAY
Built, still a nightmare road.
VICTORIA ROAD
Built, still congested.
MILITARY ROAD
Partially built
TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
Built. Didn't help congestion.
So do you see the pattern? All the road projects got built. A
couple of the public transport project got built, partically, and
mostly with private money.
