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The Harbour Bridge will be closed for 12 hours and there will be widespread road closures stretching at least nine kilometres through Sydney’s eastern suburbs to allow 180,000 pilgrims to walk to Randwick Racecourse for World Youth Day celebrations ...
NSW Roads Minister Eric Roozendaal today conceded there would be widespread disruptions for Sydneysiders when the bridge was closed from 4.30am on Saturday, July 19.
If they’d called this event “Earth Half-Day” and promoted it as some kind of Jesus-based anti-car initiative, the SMH and ABC would be screaming its virtues. Instead, the SMH’s Matthew Moore hates it.
UPDATE. Sydney’s Easter Show is a carbon carnival:
Petrol-powered thrills have all but taken over. The main live entertainment drawcards are a revhead’s heaven.
The grand parade still draws a sellout crowd, but has been upstaged by Xtreme Korruption - a one-hour show starring the Toyota V6 HiLux Heroes, the Bouncin’ Bobcats, an extreme motocross team and a motorcycle high-wire act.
And it doesn’t stop there. Sharing a shed with the steers and fillies are a hotrod display, a classic cars and bikes show and mountain bike stunt riders.
Quite how mountain bikes fit in this list of “petrol-powered thrills” is unclear. Anyway, all of these sins are easily absolved:
The show will also participate in Earth Hour on March 29. “We’re very aware of our carbon footprint,” [the show’s CEO, Peter] King said.
SMH Scribes and ABC Pharisees Easter message.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 22 at 12:59 AM • permalink“We’re very aware of our carbon footprint,” [the show’s CEO, Peter] King said, “and damned proud of it.”
What he should have said.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 22 at 03:04 AM • permalinkIt seems that closings of the Sydney Harbour Bridge are increasing in frequency. Sorry marches, bicycle activists, other special occasions…
“let’s close the bridge, because then the TV crews will come and it will be on the evening news!”
It’s a critical piece of infrastructure, and it really should be kept operational for its intended purposes as much as possible.Posted by daddy dave on 2008 03 22 at 03:42 AM • permalinkI have grave reservations about the Royal Easter Show (does it still enjoy ‘Royal’ patronage?).
I know, it’s a time-honored showcase for our rural industries and is loved by excited families, but as the Global Warming emergency escalates daily, it’s time to call a halt.
And forget your CO2 belching “petrol-powered thrills”.
Don’t the ‘powers-that-be’ realize that (according to that unimpeachable source of all things ‘warmey’, Wiki.), “the livestock sector in general (primarily cattle, chickens, and pigs) produces 37% of all human-induced methane” and that additional methane is “generated by the fermentation of organic matter including manure”.
Footnote: “Methane in the Earth’s atmosphere is an important greenhouse gas with a global warming potential of 25 over a 100-year period. This means that a methane emission will have 25 times the impact on temperature of a carbon dioxide emission of the same mass over the following 100 years”(Wiki)
#7, chrisgo, now that you’ve figured out that animal poo contributes to global warming, you’ve got two choices:
1) slaughter as many animals as you can
2) recant your idiotic religionPosted by daddy dave on 2008 03 22 at 04:09 AM • permalink#11 yes, because animals only breed in captivity.
Posted by daddy dave on 2008 03 22 at 04:41 AM • permalinkThe Royal Easter Show is actually run by the Royal Agricultural Society.
A restricted environment like the bridge would be a great place to do a count and see how inflated these rally numbers really are.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 03 22 at 04:53 PM • permalinkDid anyone READ THIS? And did anyone hear the ABC radio program?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 22 at 05:59 PM • permalinkAnd it doesn’t stop there. Sharing a shed with the steers and fillies are a hotrod display, a classic cars and bikes show and mountain bike stunt riders.
Mr. Bibby should learn to get his terminology right: it’s hot rod, not hotrod.
Posted by akornzombie on 2008 03 22 at 06:15 PM • permalink#15 Very interesting.
If this NASA-documented global cooling continues for another few years, I’m looking forward to seeing panic among Australia’s political left and intellectual elites. They’ll be running around wide-eyed like rats in a maze from which there is no exit.
They’ve successfully leveraged the global warming issue to put Labor and the left generally on the moral high ground, and used it to beat conservatives. But if the climate ‘facts’ change they’re screwed, all of them.Posted by daddy dave on 2008 03 22 at 06:56 PM • permalinkGreat point about the pilgrim walk there Tim.
Too bad these Catholics didn’t promote the event as the ‘Earth Walk’ or something, to get the sneering, sarcastic Age, ABC and SMH off their backs.
I suspect if they were Moslem pilgrims, ‘Earth Walk’ or not, they would fare a lot better with this cowardly sector of the media too!Garnaut says
Electricity price rises will not be ‘overwhelming’
Bowen says
Petrol may be excluded under trading scheme
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Couldn’t they take a bit of money from the ABC budget?