Another Clover Moore Achievement

Remember the Bourke St Cycleway?

The one that would cause the area to become "a Parisian-style boulevard lined with cafes and grand homes"?

Yes, well.

Locals were curious to see closed the Remy & Lees "Bicycle Cafe" on the Bourke Street cycleway

The café was at 547 Bourke St Surry Hills (off Phelps St)

The recipient of huge free publicity and locals assume a small business grant or two from Clover Moore MP Lord Mayor, has gone to the wall.

The spin says ‘lease was up’ it's another way of saying they went broke!

Speaking of spin, check out pro bike-lane comments on that article.

And let's completely ignore the number of businesses along the Bourke St Cycleway which are prospering as a result of the increased bike traffic e.g. Deus Cycleworks, Tokyo Bike,

Perhaps if Clover Moore encouraged horses and carriages, there would be an overnight boom in farriers and blacksmiths. How about it Clover?

Moore's Lore

Tim Blair has reported on Clover Moore's crusade against parking spaces.

Under a plan before Sydney Council, every new apartment will get its own bicycle locker, yet only one in six will have a car space.

Good luck doing the grocery shopping on your bicycle.

What do these bicycle riders do when it's raining? Catch public transport? Oh, that's right. Sydney hasn't really got any. Well, not until Clover puts in her magical fairy-powered trams.

It's well and good for luvvie politicians to insist we should stop using cars. However until there is a viable alternative means for getting around, it's just stupid.

Moreover, now that councils spend their forecast fines revenue before they've earned it, they've become addicted to parking fines, like heroin. No cars means no fines. No fines revenue, means no sponsoring worthless wastes of money.

Rates, Roads and Rubbish, Clover.

Clover pulls the wool over...

It's no secret that Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore hates cars. Her barely used bike-lanes have completely screwed Sydney traffic (and parking). Her previous achievement, William St Sydney, taunts me daily. Clover's plan was for it to be a "Boulevard" of cafes, trendy shops and glamorous fashion. She would achieve this by removing two lanes of traffic and widening the footpath.

Nobody is walking on those footpaths. Nobody. It was a total failure and stands as a monument to incompetence.

In the real world, stuffing something up so badly would usually ensure a person was never given responsibility for anything ever again, if they kept their job. In NSW Government however, incompetence has never been an obstacle to promotion. So Clover then went on to 'fix' Kings Cross. Translation: Millions spent and nothing achieved.

And then the bike lanes...

In today's Daily Telegraph, Clover announces another grand plan. This time, to get rid of cars on George St (one of Sydney's main CBD streets) and replace it with "Light Rail". You know, trams. Like the trams which ran on Sydney's roads 50 years ago, but were removed because they were unsuitable to our roads and the overhead powerlines were ugly.

But these trams are better. Check out the "artist's illustration" (Click to embiggen).



Notice anything missing?

Clover Moore - how are your 180 Million Dollar wonder-trams going to be powered?

Maybe she can get Fred Flintstone to be a consultant.

Extra stupidity:

"We want to open up a network of vibrant lanes and small plazas that encourage shops, bars and other small businesses to thrive.""

If Moore prevents motor vehicles getting near them, how are all those trendy bars and shops going to have goods delivered? By bike? That handsome bloke in the picture, pushing the upright trolley is going to be a busy boy...

Perhaps Ms Moore can produce another video and triumphantly boast that her new tramline was so successful it resulted in the spontaneous construction of a Queen Victoria Building and a Town Hall.

As for her other "promise":

Lord Mayor Clover Moore yesterday promised the changes would make it easier for motorists who had to drive through the city.

Good grief.