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  1. tayser

    Canadian Soccer Association to bid for 2026 World Cup

    Good luck - just prey you dont get lumped with a country that's got a lot of cash to bribe. Sounds like sour grapes, but with the AU 2018/2022 bids - I could cope with losing the bid to the USA because it was going to be so geographically diverse across many of the non-big 3 cities and half...
  2. tayser

    Toronto 2024 Olympic Bid (Dead)

    Yes Torotno could, but you really really REALLY need to ask whether you want what amounts to 2 weeks of fame and then 10+ years of hangover thereafter. It's been 12 years since Sydney, and its only really just starting to get its mojo back - this being the supposed financial/banking/"GLOBAL"...
  3. tayser

    Metrolinx: Presto Fare Card

    Not sure about Oyster, but my Myki (My-key) experience here in Melbourne: much of the rail system outside the centre of the city / big suburban stations have no barriers and the issue has become a lack of myki machines and queues for people waiting to touch-off at the end of the journey. the...
  4. tayser

    Toronto Expo 2025

    SNORT. Lost decade for Australia? no only for Sydney! Since the olympics international arrivals (and the sheer number of airlines) has grown by 13% in Melbourne, 15% in Brisbane and............... Sydney has languished in the low single digits. Sydney's still the largest tourism drawcard...
  5. tayser

    Melbourne

    chortle.
  6. tayser

    Melbourne

    just dumping/whoring images :) These are about 12 months old. Taken in Brunswick St / Gertrude St area in the suburb of Fitzroy in the inner north. fitzroy-2 by tayser82, on Flickr fitzroy-3 by tayser82, on Flickr fitzroy-4 by tayser82, on Flickr fitzroy-5 by tayser82, on...
  7. tayser

    Vancouver's Canada Line

    ^ ah, no wonder it was so bloody cheap to build
  8. tayser

    How will the US "Debt Ceiling" crisis affect Canada?

    A devalued USD = not the best news for Canada specifically as many manufacturing jobs could be driven back across the 49th parallel.
  9. tayser

    Transport study derails thinking on outer suburbs

    interesting stats... we've just got the most recent data for population and PT usage in the past week for Melbourne... Total trips in 2010 was 504,300,000 (broken down: train 226.6 mil, tram: 176.5 mil, Bus: 101.2 mil) and Melbourne's now over 4 million - 4,077,000 or 123 trips per capita...
  10. tayser

    Subway maps from around the world

    Not limited to "subways" (As there's only 3 stations that are underground!) but all of Melbourne's rail lines - metro trains and trams: http://www.railmaps.com.au/melbourn.png (huge image).
  11. tayser

    Tourism Australia says: Where the Bloody Hell Are You?

    fair point, granted. It's the same with Australia and Asia, but at some point you get sick of it - there's a much bigger world beyond the North Atlantic!
  12. tayser

    Tourism Australia says: Where the Bloody Hell Are You?

    ok, with all due respect, where the FREAKING HELL have you people been? (pardon pun) It has never been cheaper to fly to Australia than ever before. Before V Australia and Delta started flying across the pacific 12 months ago, an economy return ticket was ~$2500. Today? Cheap...
  13. tayser

    Tourism Australia says: Where the Bloody Hell Are You?

    The latest campaign (most recent major one since LAra Bingle's Where the bloody hell are you? campaign) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82n1PX1hVEY Less of Sydney, Melbourne finally gets a look in, but still fkn cringeworthy.
  14. tayser

    Australian Race Riots

    mind if I ask what you meant by segregation in Melbourne?
  15. tayser

    Report: Melbourne to Top Sydney as Australia’s No. 1 City by 2037

    funny that this appeared over the weekend... http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-worstplanned-city-in-australia-20100613-y64m.html SYDNEY'S strategic metropolitan planning is the worst of Australia's major capital cities, leaving it exposed to a lack of federal government funding for...
  16. tayser

    Report: Melbourne to Top Sydney as Australia’s No. 1 City by 2037

    NSW's problems lie in the fact politics up there has been, during the Howard years, so focused on the federal level - all the Liberal and Labor talent went to Canberra, and nothing's left at the state level. It's the same old ALP changing its leader every 18 months, and the Liberal opposition...
  17. tayser

    Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool?

    Manchester definitely, if you stay for a few days, you can easily do a day trip to Liverpool to have a look around. likewise Edinburgh & Glasgow.
  18. tayser

    Got a little camera happy last week (Melb)

    Winter's just around the corner, was a nice arvo of 20 degrees...
  19. tayser

    Spring storm over Melbourne last night (30/10/09)

    dont usually mass-spam pics of Melb around the net, but these are worthy! By Fred.Z on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fred_z/4057575133/

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