Carlton Supporters Club

I'm a believer if you commit to something you follow through so a). Like I said though it was all an election sham.

During the election the Liberal Party said they will scrap the SRL and build hospitals instead. Dan Andrews said he would do both.

They're not building any hospitals, the SRL has been delayed because we're broke and Dan is trying to find somewhere to play golf.

They are building hospitals and care facilities though.

Check out ferntree gully, Wantirna, there is a new ten story building going up at Box Hill, and rumour has it, Maroondah hospital too.

The Eastern Health corridor is growing very quickly.  The Northern has got some new facilities too.

There is no doubt that infrustructure is going up, the cost cutting is coming in various capacities too.

My mum had a minor procedure there and they nicked an artery in her groin on the way out and had to rush her to the Monash because they don't have a vascular team at the VHH.

Righto, bit of venting needed. This evening I witnessed first hand what I think is wrong with young people in 2023. Behaviours that start with some gobbing off that often leads to violence (sometimes fatal) when directed at the wrong person and then leaving parents wondering "how could that happen to our young boy, he was such a loved young man".

I was on the way home tonight in my car and I was crossing a bike lane which runs in the nature strip of a busy main road. I had to stop as I crossed it as car was in front me stopped waiting to cross the car on the side. I was probably obstructing the rather wide bike lane, by a tow bar at worst. This young turd, maybe 20 years of age + or - a year, riding down the bike lane pulls up next to my window and starts hurling the biggest, mother of all expletive laiden tirades I have heard in a very long time. He called me every name under the sun and had a go at every one of my physical attributes. I admit to eventually exchanging some expletives with said punter and he eventually road off. Now my point is that if this to me occurred 25 years ago, I can promise you that within 20 seconds I would have jumped out and given him a fair old fashioned hiding. These days, I am older, grumpier but a lot wiser, however if that idiot had have hurled that abuse to the wrong character (like some of the mad pricks you see on the news these days), I'm tipping there would have been a fair chance he may not have seen Xmas 23.
Now technically, to the letter of the law, I was in the wrong but FMD a more disrespectful, young a-hole I have not come across. To stop and launch that level of venom over such a minor thing I found mind blowing.
Vent over.

As a regular former cyclist myself I have to say within that group there are some seriously self-entitled folks who give the community a bad rap.
Maybe GIC was in the wrong technically but the number of cyclists who think the rules don't apply to them is also significant.
Common sense is often out the window.
We have a stretch of road with a perfectly good, wide, safe bike track alongside it yet some cyclists take to the road that narrows in parts over bridges and delays traffic significantly.

Sorry you had to put up with that GTC. Disgraceful behavior. Wonder how he'd go on the frontline in the Ukraine?