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Thursday Nov 19, 2009 #
Cycling 1:00:00 [3] 21.4 km (2:48 / km)
From near work out to the Maribyrnong at Essendon and back along the river and Footscray Road. Couldn't really get going this morning, even though I slept OK for a 28-degree night. Headwinds early on didn't help; felt a little bit better after turning around.
There is a flood marker on the Maribyrnong with year markings which show that it flooded just about every year - until the mid-1990s.
Looks like the building works blocking most of the last bit of the path into our building from the north are approaching completion. This is the building which is planned to play host to the "venue" which was attracting so much media excitement a couple of weeks ago; seemingly lost in the discussion was the idea that just because a place has a liquor licence it's going to turn into a clone of the worst of King Street. The area could actually use some places to eat in the evening which fit into the gap between fast-food chains and big night out (their absence is something I notice working late on evenings, or when I'm going directly from work to the football) and if the new place fills that gap I won't be too upset by it. Much more concerning in my view is the proposed 1500-capacity nightclub in an industrial area on the other side of the Westgate, not least because there is no nearby public transport and getting to most places from there requires negotiating the Westgate/Lorimer/Montague intersection, a serious challenge even when sober.
There is a flood marker on the Maribyrnong with year markings which show that it flooded just about every year - until the mid-1990s.
Looks like the building works blocking most of the last bit of the path into our building from the north are approaching completion. This is the building which is planned to play host to the "venue" which was attracting so much media excitement a couple of weeks ago; seemingly lost in the discussion was the idea that just because a place has a liquor licence it's going to turn into a clone of the worst of King Street. The area could actually use some places to eat in the evening which fit into the gap between fast-food chains and big night out (their absence is something I notice working late on evenings, or when I'm going directly from work to the football) and if the new place fills that gap I won't be too upset by it. Much more concerning in my view is the proposed 1500-capacity nightclub in an industrial area on the other side of the Westgate, not least because there is no nearby public transport and getting to most places from there requires negotiating the Westgate/Lorimer/Montague intersection, a serious challenge even when sober.