Walking to the ’G on Saturday night down Clarendon Street, AussieRulesBlog and friend remarked on the exceedingly slow pace of the line of traffic waiting to enter the MCG carpark.
The reason became clear after we crossed Wellington Parade. There was a sign as the Yarra Park entrance announcing that the carpark was full. That’s all very helpful, but the sign couldn’t be seen without crossing over Wellington Parade.
Let’s say, right now, that those who decide to park at Yarra Park for the football take their chance anyway, since there’s no guarantee. AussieRulesBlog parks a couple of kilometers away and walks in — a much less stressful solution.
Notwithstanding the right or wrong of sitting in a line of traffic, using petrol, just so you only have to walk a hundred metres to the stadium, why hasn’t someone devised a system of signs in Clarendon Street to advise the poor sods driving down it that there is no carparking available at Yarra Park? Not hard to do and it would calm what we are sure are some quite angry people when they discover they’ve waiting so long for nothing (and probably missed the start of the game).
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Totally off-topic, but what do you think of Jimmy Bartel's article about a shorter season? It makes a lot of sense to me - http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/less-gives-everyone-more-bang-for-buck-20130409-2hjhy.html
Superficially, these are nice ideas, but the modern game runs on broadcast rights money. Is Jimmy going to forego a third of his salary for not that much different workload?
We all have our pet theories, even AussieRulesBlog. We're a devotee of the two conference idea, where each team plays its co-conference members twice and each team of the other conference once for the season. But it's not going to happen. Nor is Jimmy's pet theory.
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