Roads, mostly

I flexed-off work today and Penny didn't have any on, so we enjoy a day sans les enfants.

Took off for Shornecliffe on the bikes, along Shultz Canal and across the Boondall Wetlands for a fine lunch at the Full Moon.

After exercise, a couple of beers, a good feed and sitting in the warm sun, you loose the enthusiasm for further exersion, so we only managed a few more kms up the promenade before kopping out and catching the train home.

All-in, did 31kms.

Sadly, construction of another Gateway motorway (sorry "upgrade") is well underway, meaning a great swathe of the Ramsar Convention listed Moreton Bay wetlands - bought-up by the ratepayers of Brisbane - is being bulldozed under a mass of ashphalt and concrete.

Ironically, this is an initiative from the [Smart-] State government. Cars are the way of the future, apparently.

I'd hate to think that Queensland is 25 years behind the times when it comes to transport policy thinking.

I was saddened to see that there were no protestors lying in front of bulldozers and chaining themselves to trees.

When I think back to how much trouble the UK authorities went through to build the Newbury Bypass all those years ago - and that was just through an oak and beech tree thicket.

I thought about doing an Arthur Dent and laying fruitlessly in the mud and arguing with a pointless bureaucrat. But then, well, you know, "bypasses have to built".