Posts by Scott Gamble
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I ride every day in Sydney from Bondi to Potts Point, about 9km (and if you think NZ drivers are bad you ought to try the urban assault vehicle run through the eastern suburbs here!)
Sydney has been undertaking a massive bikelane project for a few years with huge results. The council also runs free bike courses for riding and maintenance too.
Riding everyday is awesome!
By the way, commercial carparks are the best place to lock your bike: secure, staffed, undercover, and usually with bike racks or at least chunky metal poles.
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Cracker: Sydney-side, in reply to BenWilson,
Unless you're scared of sharks.
I surf regularly at Tamarama and Bronte and have yet to have any contact with sharks. In fact, in over 20 years of surfing I've never even seen a shark! And most of the time in Ak I would surf at Maori Bay, which has a seal colony (aka shark attractors) on Oaia Island.
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Cracker: Sydney-side, in reply to Hilary Stace,
@Hilary
Re: public art and Councilor Casey researching it.Details of Ak public artwork here on the Ak Public Libraries website: http://bit.ly/egM9wf
(disclosure: I helped research this about 10 years ago)
Good to see public artwork getting some attention though. It can make a city.On a change of subject, I live in Sydney and it is bigger and better than Ak in many ways. But also much worse too. (traffic, house prices and availability, awful, awful rich twits etc)
Basically it's just Ak but 4x the size. No real differences. Except that their city beaches are miles better than our east coast beaches.