Remember in the pre-Christmas hailstorm report, we joked that after the hailstorm, Sydney's CBD construction site was also damaged to varying degrees, and perhaps the headline was: "Sydney government threw another $xxxx to build the light rail," Project extension x x years ".
Unfortunately, this news is what we say, is really afraid of what to come and what.
Recently, the Daily Mail (Daily Mail) reported that Australia's government has thrown another A $600m to "replenish" the Spanish construction team at the front line of road repair, but Dailymail also said the team appeared to be in a "blood-filled" state all the time.
Dailymail: Australia's government has once again dumped taxpayer 600 million to subsidize the light rail program, but the work does not seem difficult.
According to reports, Australia's government will allocate an additional 600m Australian dollars to support Spanish road construction teams to support them in completing the 10-year light rail project in Sydney's CBD.
600 million!
600 million!
600 million!
I may not have thought that I would be so valuable. Once I learned that my self-worth had been promoted, I must have blossoms in my heart.
The reason for the funding, according to Australia's government, was that the project proved harder than originally thought, so after the new workload was confirmed, government decided to fund an additional 600m Australian dollars as a project.
As a result, the light rail project, which benefits the country and the people, was postponed for a year to overspend nearly 1 billion Australian dollars in full view of the public. Even so, the builders appear to be unhappy with some of government's actions.
The Australian newspaper: the governor has allocated 600 million dollars to resolve the discord.
According to the Australian newspaper (The Australian), Spanish contractors said that government in the new state had always had opaque operations and had disputes over the workload. It said that government "held ransom" on the light rail project. More money should be given to the construction team.
Now, as the construction team would like, government again overspent 600 million Australian dollars, but the entire light rail project is still postponed for more than a year, the construction team proved with strength: one inch of time, one inch of gold.
Government, Australia's new state, must be dissatisfied with such a performance. According to the Australian newspaper, Transport minister Andrew Constance (Andrew Constance) slammed Spanish contractors for pursuing extra funds. "government, NSW, is very dissatisfied with the performance of the construction team on the Sydney light rail project," he said.
He called the extra money "ransom," and it looks like the Spanish construction team kidnapped Sydney's light rail project. The Sydney crowd, however, is obviously more concerned about the construction team than the traffic minister, because it's all taxpayer's money.
Let's look back at what the construction workers have been doing with our money all these years.
A construction team's Showcase.
First let's take a look at Australia's tax code to see how much money in our salary has been thrown into the construction team's pocket.
From 2011, Australia's federal government tax bands are: 6001 to 37000 (income, Australian dollar), 12.6% (tax rate); 37001 to 80000,21.9% to 180000,30.3% to 180001 and above, 45%.
In November 2017, Australia's average full-time adult salary was A $84,661, according to Australia's Bureau of Statistics.
In other words, on a flat scale, every year, 30.3% of our taxpayer salary is taxed by government. (don't be discouraged by the low salary. It's your turn to try your best.) except for FBT,CGT,GST, this is already a big "spending".
However, the cost of the Spanish construction team took two and a half years to help the masses solve the 450 meters of traffic problems.
A 5-minute walk! You told me to fix it for two and a half years!
From 2017 to the present, people have found that although it seems to have been fixed again, the length is not as long as before! Only about 100 meters?! Two years later, only 100 meters fixed?
Australia's government says it's not our fault either. After all, the workers' progress is limited, and they can only build 26 meters of road a day.
Australian netizens said that if you want to let the Chinese construction team to repair this road, not only shorten the time limit, but also can not ask government for more money …
However, according to the "Sunrise" reaction, Spanish workers do not seem to be building roads at all.
I remember a few years ago, a video of "Sydney worker Westfield playing the Piano" caught fire all over Australia, and the workers in it were like this:
The video received many likes from netizens, and the blue-collar was called the "most handsome pianist" at the time. But. Tell the construction team brutally, not at all times, you are the most handsome …
Recently, in the heart of Sydney, there was a construction worker playing the piano to earn extra money. Judging from the sunny weather at that time, brother, you must still be on the clock?
If it wasn't for Cosplay, the worker's show of talent during working hours might not have been praised by his predecessors, many netizens said, workers might not find a job and they would have to play the piano on the side of the road.
In addition to playing the piano, a scene of "people planting trees" video also made Sydney people dumbfounded …
The video shows a tree being transported to George Street as two workers set out to put it in a dug hole.
Then the other workers came, one, two, three, four. Finally formed two people to plant trees, the crowd surrounded the grand situation!
It is natural that more than one tree can be planted, so let's take a look at carrying bricks. In the impression of the little friend, the brick should be moved in this way:
Or something like this:
Clean and efficient, full of strength at the same time without lack of appreciation, can be described as one of the site beauty. Let's take another look at Sydney's CBD brick-carrying assembly line:
According to Dailymail, this was a picture taken on a weekday morning, when Sydney's workers moved bricks with extreme stability, carefully handing a stone block slowly into the hands of the next, adhering to the principle of "taking it lightly and putting it lightly." Place the bricks carefully on the ground.
From a distance, no one would have guessed that it was moving bricks.
At work the inefficiency embarrassment is temporarily put aside, after all, is also in the work, slow is not hurt. But sometimes, construction teams often think about life during working hours.
This is a common scene on the CBD construction road in Sydney in the early morning, and people who do not know that they are on the busy morning trip to work on the theme of the construction team, party, are not hard to see as they are barbecuing:
Olive oil and barbecue sauce lay aside, causing commuters to swallow their mouths.
On an excavator, a worker waiting to "throw food" was already sleepy and fell asleep wearing sunglasses.
Next to him, a worker standing next to steel and cement played his cell phone bored, and he might be able to paint himself on today's news.
< Dailymail > in the headlines, Sydney's rail construction was defined as "catastrophic," while workers' behaviour was described in terms of "Ridiculous", but it seemed, indeed, to be so.
Australia must be the world's largest construction efficiency, if the Guinness World Records, there is one of the world's slowest construction efficiency record, Australia will surely ascend to the throne.
It is said that workers with a $35-hour salary are often seen smoking and playing with their cell phones.
At work hours, some workers seem to be thinking about life, they sit quietly in the road bed, staring at QVB, may be in the brain is constantly debating what the Queen's breakfast is.
The love of men and women is also reflected in the construction site, just on the peak of the working afternoon, they seem to be discussing, whether to go to OPM bungee in the evening …
And this inefficient work has left Sydney CBD in a long-term state of being burrowed, and many of the construction sites have been inaccessible to pedestrians, which has led to a number of CBD stores in Sydney that were already hot and are now depressed and gone.
In the past few years, many hot shops have closed down
Since the first day of construction, Sydney's CBD has been completely destroyed. In the eyes of people who have just come to Sydney, this is the difference between a seller's show and a buyer's show.
As a result of everywhere construction, Sydney CBD people flow drops sharply, along the street shop owner, some people for this profit halves; some people cannot make ends meet, has been losing money; some people go bankrupt and close the door directly … Apart from saying mmp, what else can they say.
The VIVO cafe Coffee Shop, located in the center of CBD, was the busiest coffee shop in the street!
This is CBD office active coffee house, is also one of Sydney's Internet celebrities to sign in. But now, it did not escape the fate of closing the door out of the house.
Angela Vithoulkas is the owner of the coffee shop, which she has run for 16 years. But just three months ago, they announced that Aug. 24 would be their last day of business, and that all of that day's income would be used for charity to farmers suffering from the drought.
And the reason for closing the door, can be imagined, is because of the construction of the light rail procrastination, resulting in less and less passenger flow! The construction had a great impact on the street coffee shop's profits, which, before closing, could not even afford rent.
In addition, the door of the workers raised dust, the dust everywhere, floating on the food and coffee in their shop, a cup of mocha turned into a "grey milk cover," how does the customer drink it?
Because of helplessness, Angela can only bear the pain of suspending the coffee shop. In the same way as Angela, there was The Book Kitchen., the big coffee shop of the year.
Before, if you didn't line up for coffee in the store ahead of time, you could go shopping after ordering, or if you wanted to wait an hour at your place …
And now, this coffee shop is affected by construction, often see the owner standing alone at the door looking at the endless construction network …
At the beginning of the construction, The Book Kitchen's net turnover fell by 60% under the influence of geographical location!
Sparsely customers, noise, dust, resulting in this "internet celebrity coffee shop" daily income of only 300 Australian dollars, buy a dish is not enough ah!
There are less and less profit in the shop here, there is no limit to the construction date, but under the helpless, the shopkeeper can only close the coffee shop, go home to plan a new career …
The Last Strand salon, which has been heard of by all of us in Sydney, is a perfect place for female friends to take care of their hair.
But since the construction of the light rail, this hair salon, unexpectedly appeared "not a hair" situation.
Jaide, the shopkeeper, said: "it used to be very busy every Friday afternoon. The crowd was so noisy. Now it's an empty ghost street. I can't see a few people at all!"
Looking at the messy streets, Jaide said he was so helpless that people often showed real helplessness when they met things that they simply couldn't control, and Sydney's track construction was one of them.
Now, Jaide took this hairless barber shop with no hair, and had to close the door and raise the children.
The light rail project, on the basis of more than a year of extension, swallowed up the cost of taxpayer 600 million Australian dollars. Construction inefficiency has led to accusations from government in the new state, as well as to Sydney residents and CBD shops along the street.
Of course, this has an inseparable relationship with national planning, policy operation, construction obstacles, and objectively cannot be entirely blamed on the construction team.
We only hope that the light rail project will benefit the masses earlier. It is futile to blow it up and hold it high. We "don't look at advertisements but see the curative effect."