Vic Daniel Andrews and the Statue of Limitations

[Crankyhawk]

I had a mixed bag. One tenant paid 6 months ahead and rarely asked for anything. I didn't give them a single rent increase, and we only parted ways because they left the country.

Another tenant felt victimised because they were given warning notices for failing to pay on time, and that was after being continually late for over a year.

There's been a lot of angst against landlords recently, but I feel most of it is biased and unwarranted. Why are we comfortable with share investors if property investors are bad?

Because people owning shares aren’t artificially driving up Prices for others to own housing (shares aren’t one of the basic needs of food warmth and shelter) and it’s easier to see how investment in shares (and I’d also allow commercial property) promotes jobs and economic activity. You don’t get those benefits from rental housing (particularly from existing construction)

 

[FredLeDeux]

SRL themselves are only claiming 70,000 a day.

Early construction on SRL East kicks off

Construction of SRL East is underway this year, with trains running by 2035.

bigbuild.vic.gov.au

The trains themselves will be roughly the size of a 4 car train. Basing it off an X'trapolis that would be 444 crush. Given it would have less seats 500 would be closer.

By 2056 2 minutes at peak time is claimed; so is 600,000 per day

https://bigbuild.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/578273/SRL-Business-and-Investment-Case-Key-Findings.pdf

 

[Crankyhawk]

Car trips that would have been there with no train. Get with the program

Was more questioning the figure of 600000 trips per day. That’s why I was doing the math.

 

[FredLeDeux]

Was more questioning the figure of 600000 trips per day. That’s why I was doing the math.

If I was you, I'd be more interested in the forecast increase of jobs in the Heidelberg medical precinct from a current 18,000 to 50,000. Do you have any ideas about where this increase would come from?

 

[Crankyhawk]

If I was you, I'd be more interested in the forecast increase of jobs in the Heidelberg medical precinct from a current 18,000 to 50,000. Do you have any ideas about where this increase would come from?

aah heck, not again!

what time frame are they doing this

meanwhile we cop (slightly inaccurate) reporting in the Age

Nicole called an ambulance for help. She ended up shackled to a bed

Nicole Lee says being restrained to a hospital bed for six hours as an incomplete quadriplegic is evidence the practice is over-used.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Hornberger]

Surely means per year, cannot see how the maths works (6 carriage train maybe 500 people if packed, peak would have services every 10 minutes, so even assuming 24 hour operation at peak rate is only 72000 people per day..

There are three problems with your maths.

Firstly, you have only done sums in one direction. You need to double your number to account for trains running in both direction.

Secondly, most passengers are not going to ride the train for entire length. A person that board the trains at first station and disembarks in the middle can be replaced by a passenger that boards in the middle of the line and disembarks at the end of the line. The number of passenger per trip can exceed the maximum capacity of the train.

Thirdly, you have assumed that trains are only running every 10 minutes. The plan is have the trains running every 6 minutes, but it would be capable of running trains every 2 or 3 minutes.

Running 10 trains per hour in each direction for 18 hours per day with a 150% capacity factor would give a maximum theoretical capacity of 240,000 per day.

 

[Crankyhawk]

There are three problems with your maths.

Firstly, you have only done sums in one direction. You need to double your number to account for trains running in both direction.

Secondly, most passengers are not going to ride the train for entire length. A person that board the trains at first station and disembarks in the middle can be replaced by a passenger that boards in the middle of the line and disembarks at the end of the line. The number of passenger per trip can exceed the maximum capacity of the train.

Thirdly, you have assumed that trains are only running every 10 minutes. The plan is have the trains running every 6 minutes, but it would be capable of running trains every 2 or 3 minutes.

Running 10 trains per hour in each direction for 18 hours per day with a 150% capacity factor would give a maximum theoretical capacity of 240,000 per day.

Yes, thanks for that. Particularly the second one as that was something I had not considered.

 

[eddiesmith]

Surely means per year, cannot see how the maths works (6 carriage train maybe 500 people if packed, peak would have services every 10 minutes, so even assuming 24 hour operation at peak rate is only 72000 people per day..

So did I, but nope, it said per day. Had plenty of time to look whilst sitting at the lights for 5 minutes!

 

[Chief]

Surely means per year, cannot see how the maths works (6 carriage train maybe 500 people if packed, peak would have services every 10 minutes, so even assuming 24 hour operation at peak rate is only 72000 people per day..

But it's not people riding the line end to end.

 

[Chief]

Some of the bad tenant tales

Had a friend who was in the call centre for the RTA.

Concrete down drains was a biggie.

 

[hawkman]

New train lines to Melton and Wyndham axed from rail plans

An election promise to build two new rail lines in Melbourne’s outer west has been axed, with the Victorian government instead considering whether to electrify existing lines.

www.theage.com.au

Shock that the West gets shafted for SRL in the East again

 

[Sttew]

New train lines to Melton and Wyndham axed from rail plans

An election promise to build two new rail lines in Melbourne’s outer west has been axed, with the Victorian government instead considering whether to electrify existing lines.

www.theage.com.au

Shock that the West gets shafted SRL in the East again

Is anyone surprised? No votes in the Airport rail link, Geelong fast train or Melton line upgrade

 

[Johnny_Dogg4]

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/environment/handed-over-ten-victorian-councils-blindsided-by-sweeping-aboriginal-land-rights-deal/news-story/6760aea4ee5b59ea3572b0207fdd4df5

 

[The Cryptkeeper]

Norman Hermant on the ABC recently did a story on chefs moving to.induction.
Also had 2 chefs compare dishes between gas and induction. He tasted dishes cooked on both - couldn't tell the difference.

We've got a De Longhi induction cooktop btw.

The only issue I have with it is when cooking pancakes, it sometimes errors out for some reason, yet the same pan works fine for everything else. I suspect it's not happy that I'm lifting parts of the pan off to get the mixture to spread. Otherwise, good as gold.

This is what I would do to any piece of equipment that f***ed around with my pancakes.

 

[adogsfan5]

 

[Chief]

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/environment/handed-over-ten-victorian-councils-blindsided-by-sweeping-aboriginal-land-rights-deal/news-story/6760aea4ee5b59ea3572b0207fdd4df5

What do you want to say about this article?

 

[FredLeDeux]

What do you want to say about this article?

I'm with the Mayor of West Wimmera, it's a disgrace that local boy Alister Clarkson will now never have a road named after him

 

[Chief]

“The land council has to be consulted on everything and you’ve got to pay for that consultation,” said Cr Meyer. “We don’t know [how much it will cost]. They might say it’s 20 bucks an hour, they might say it’s 1000 bucks an hour. We don’t know.”

If true, do the councillors, assistants, advisers all work for free?

 

[Sttew]

“The land council has to be consulted on everything and you’ve got to pay for that consultation,” said Cr Meyer. “We don’t know [how much it will cost]. They might say it’s 20 bucks an hour, they might say it’s 1000 bucks an hour. We don’t know.”

If true, do the councillors, assistants, advisers all work for free?

Listening to Tom Elliott yesterday, he said the concern is that if the Barengi Gadjin Land Council (BGLC) in Victoria operates anything like the new cultural heritage laws in WA then farmers may, for example, need permission to dig deeper than 50cm on their land, they will need permission to erect fencimg or cut down trees.

The HUN articles says the affected councils in NW Victoria claim they were not included in the negotiations to form Barengi Gadjin Land Council and were only made aware of the deal just over a month ago when it was presented to them as a “fait accompli”.

 

[FIGJAM]

“The land council has to be consulted on everything and you’ve got to pay for that consultation,” said Cr Meyer. “We don’t know [how much it will cost]. They might say it’s 20 bucks an hour, they might say it’s 1000 bucks an hour. We don’t know.”

If true, do the councillors, assistants, advisers all work for free?

Wouldn't the land council be on the Vic gov payroll?

 

[11kgm]

Greens are actually doing something right for once

 

[adogsfan5]

Greens are actually doing something right for once

 

[Collingwoodity]

“The land council has to be consulted on everything and you’ve got to pay for that consultation,” said Cr Meyer. “We don’t know [how much it will cost]. They might say it’s 20 bucks an hour, they might say it’s 1000 bucks an hour. We don’t know.”

If true, do the councillors, assistants, advisers all work for free?

Council workers are huge leaches. How can they earn so so much for so so little output!

 

[Magnum27]

Greens are actually doing something right for once

Haha as if anyone from the current government will remember how the decision was made and the reasons behind the cost blow out, it will just be one big handball from department to department, as per standing operating procedure from politicians.

 

[Jane Doe]

What do you want to say about this article?

I am assuming this is going to be like the deeply unpopular laws that have been brought into WA recently