Two days, Sydney CBD suddenly appeared a group of high-spirited people, they turned on the main road in CBD "barbecue Party," the oven sausage with their hands of beer, everyone's faces are smiling.
At their leisurely pace, they chatted about their lives, and from time to time they had a glass of celebration, a mouthful of grilled bowels, and a glass of wine in the street.
At a close look, they all seemed to be wearing orange overalls, with blinding reflective belts 50 meters away, and several people with yellow safety helmets on their heads, and they swam on the "ruins" surrounded by iron nets in the road. Obviously, they are the road construction team from CBD, Sydney.
Why are they so happy?
It turns out that, because of these days, George Street finally opened part of the road!
After a year of hard work, it has finally opened up, and everyone's faces are full of laughter.
After receiving information, the editor rushed to downtown martin place to share with all citizens the joy of opening the main road.
The repairs in the vicinity of martin place are indeed almost complete. Here, take a look at this:
Clean ~ open ~ concise ~ generous ~ people feel very comforting, continue to go south.
There seems to be something wrong with it. How did you get to the end of the open section of QVB,?
And further down, yes, it's the scathing landscape again:
I don't know if you have any impression. At the end of December last year, there was an article showing you the road sections that had been repaired before martin Place. Sydney George Street is open! 2.1 billion years, and now it's fixed. 450 meters! The Australian people are moved to cry!
At that time, taking Wynyard station as the starting point, walking all the way south, I saw that George Street was about that long open. This year, a whole year later, I went down from martin place and found that George Street was so long open:
Visual survey, compared with last year, this year also opened about 100 meters ah!
It's been a whole year since the last field trip, and government spent hundreds of millions more, and finally got such a tearful result!
If you take a look at the daily work of the George Street construction team, it will not be difficult to understand! The daily life of Australian workers is purple with sauce.
This is a common scene on the CBD road in Sydney in the early morning, and people who don't know that they're on a busy morning trip to work at the construction team's theme, party, are not hard to see as they are barbecuing: olive oil and barbecue sauce on the side. The commuters could not help but 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.
It didn't take long for them to start today's work. It seems that today's main task is to move bricks …
Let's take another look at Sydney's CBD brick-carrying assembly line: according to Dailymail, this was a picture taken on Thursday morning, when Sydney's workers moved bricks with extreme stability and carefully handed a stone brick slowly into the next man's hands. Adhere to the principle of "light take light", the brick carefully placed on the ground.
From a distance, no one would have guessed that it was moving bricks.
< 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 salary of $35 hours are often seen smoking and playing with mobile 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 …
CBD's nightmare.
It was such an outsourced construction team that dragged Sydney's beautiful CBD into a nightmare. In the eyes of newcomers, CBD is the center street of shops; in the eyes of lovers, it is a cup of hot chocolate in the hands of winter; in the eyes of struggling youth, it is the path of stars carrying dreams; In the final analysis, it is black-and-white film buried deep in the heart. In short, there is no way to describe the importance of George Street in the hearts of the people of Sydney.
But CBD's nightmare officially arrived on August 1, 2015.
Sydney government spent 2.1 billion on that day to build the Sydney light rail project, and since then Sydney's CBD has been torn to pieces. In the eyes of newcomers in Sydney, this is the difference between a seller's show and a buyer's show.
Just this morning, you can see that every corner of CBD is full of excavators and transporters from all over the world, noise and dust have caused a lot of trouble to people's lives. Shuttle excavators and looming iron nets, these are the daily lives of the CBD people in Sydney.
In CBD, you can say there is no escape, for the car people, the basic difficult city center, driving difficulty please climb a higher floor.
When you heard the navigation prompt "turn right at the next intersection", you saw this:
Finally I was about to reach my destination, but I saw this a hundred meters away:
I had an appointment with my friend in half an hour, but as soon as I drove into the center of the city, I saw this:
The scariest thing is, driving your family to the airport to catch a plane, passing through the center of the city. Don't mention anything so sad. All in all, the construction of George Street during this period of time has caused a lot of inconvenience to people, but also lost much of Sydney's downtown viewing.
Low construction efficiency
Last year, a year and a half after the construction of CBD in Sydney, people liked to see (George St.) on George Street in Sydney. A new section of the road opened, just when people applauded, but found that things are not right. Sydney, Australia, government, spent 220 million Australian dollars to carry out the George Street renovation project, lasting two and a half years, to help the masses solve 450 meters of traffic problems. A 5-minute walk! You told me to fix it for a year and a half!
From last year to the present, people have found that although it seems to have fixed another section of the road, but the length is not as long as before! Only about 100 meters?! A year later, only 100 meters fixed?
This is not the most exaggerated, more than the efficiency of construction in Australia, is the excuse given by government …
It's not our fault, says Australia's government. After all, the progress of the workers is limited. They can only pave 26 meters of roads a day. What is the concept of the 26 meters? boys tested the 50-meter run as a child. It's like you're only halfway, and a day's gone, nine times, and a year and a half. Do you know that the hourly salary of the workers in the construction team is $35, but is it impossible for them to say that the length of the road they pave every day is not equal to their hourly salary?
Let's do a little arithmetic, the light rail project from Circular Quay to Kingsford. According to official reports, the total length of the project is 24.7km, and it has been completed at 14km.If the rest of the 10.7km section continues at the speed of 26m/day, It will take another 411.5 days to complete the installation, and officials have told the public that the project will be completed in May 2020, excluding statutory holidays and public holidays. Are you sure you will be able to make it? ?
The shops lost their profits and closed down one after another.
The owner of the shop along the street, some people cut the income by half; some people can't make ends meet and lose money all the time; 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, affected by the geographical location of, The Book Kitchen's net business declined by 60%!
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.
Shopkeeper Jaide said: "every Friday, afternoons are very busy, the crowd is very noisy, but now it becomes an empty ghost street, can not 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.
Now, as long as they work near CBD, people who work are suffering from the rumble of noise, even the annual parade, the only entertainment activity of the old Chinese in George Street.
(the Spring Festival Great parade in Old Sydney's memory)
If you put this efficiency in China, it's no different from vandalizing public facilities.
Just to build the light rail, Australia's government has planned for nearly five years. In China, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has been in operation for only eight years.
If the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge was built in Australia, it would have become a century-old building as soon as it was completed.
Today, Prime Minister Tan Bao, who started the project, has stepped down and really dedicated himself wholeheartedly.
God bless, let Sydney CBD as soon as possible restore the heroic position of the year, I wait for the little citizen, really can't stand it …