Alinga Rank Revenue Raising.
Dear ACT Police,
Your booking of cabs on Saturday night for U turns WITHIN Alinga Rank was grossly unfair. I don't know if it was a new officer who simply has no idea or just an officer who decided to be a pious pedantic prat.....again. Or maybe just an officer who had simply nothing better to do.
See, the norm has always been to preform a U turn at the bottom of Mort Street and begin to make the way back up the other side of Alinga Rank till you get to the main rank.(FIG 1 & 2). For whatever reason someone decided it would be a great idea to make the area we have ALWAYS preformed this U turn safely, an unbroken white line. This then gave you the option to book cabbie for an illegal U turn. Something that hasn't seemed to have bothered you for months and months and months and months.
Your preference for a new norm for cabbies defies any sensible logic. Rather than preform a U turn as we have done for years and years, within the safe confines of Alinga Rank, you are now requiring us to exit Alinga rank on Mort street, do a U turn around the traffic island in the face of busy Bunda Street traffic and then re enter Alinga Rank on Mort Street (FIG 2). Yes,,your police officer of Saturday night suggested this to be the way it should happen. Absolutely and utterly STUPID. ACT Police seriously want us to believe that they think that preforming a U turn over an area that now is an unbroken white line, but wasn't always so, that has been done for years without incident is more hazardous than preforming a U turn in the middle of a busy intersection? It is the most insanely stupid piece of traffic advice I have ever heard. An ACT Officer actively promoting a dangerous act. I really do think you need to revisit this advice, because when there is an accident because of it...and there will be...saying "Oh, but the Police told us to U turn here" somehow isn't going to wash...is it?
I think this is worthy of ACT Govt intervention to remove that unbroken white line and replace it with the broken white line that was there for years and years. A strip of paint doesn't suddenly make an action unsafe. Any muppet should be able to figure that one out. And when the line becomes broken....well..you'll just have to find another revenue raising stream. You could start by booking the private cars that park on the taxi ranks all over the city at night after the parking rangers go home. Something that is obviously beneath your station in life as asking you to do that is like asking you to rip your arm off.
While I am on this particular line of thought...before you try cleaning up our 'mess'..perhaps you could try keeping your own house in order? FIG 3 shows a police van parked in Alinga Rank lights off, engine off so that the occupants could have a chat with their colleagues on the footpath. Here's a thought...go have your social conversation somewhere else. And for the love of God YJI-40F QUIT SPEEDING THROUGH ALINGA. Yes..we see you. We see where you go...no where, and we see what you do when you get there....nothing. So why speed and endanger peoples lives ? Seriously..not cool...and WAY more dangerous than crossing a unbroken white line in Alinga Rank...and probably not quite as dangerous as preforming a U turn in the middle of a busy intersection.
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FIG 3
Your booking of cabs on Saturday night for U turns WITHIN Alinga Rank was grossly unfair. I don't know if it was a new officer who simply has no idea or just an officer who decided to be a pious pedantic prat.....again. Or maybe just an officer who had simply nothing better to do.
See, the norm has always been to preform a U turn at the bottom of Mort Street and begin to make the way back up the other side of Alinga Rank till you get to the main rank.(FIG 1 & 2). For whatever reason someone decided it would be a great idea to make the area we have ALWAYS preformed this U turn safely, an unbroken white line. This then gave you the option to book cabbie for an illegal U turn. Something that hasn't seemed to have bothered you for months and months and months and months.
Your preference for a new norm for cabbies defies any sensible logic. Rather than preform a U turn as we have done for years and years, within the safe confines of Alinga Rank, you are now requiring us to exit Alinga rank on Mort street, do a U turn around the traffic island in the face of busy Bunda Street traffic and then re enter Alinga Rank on Mort Street (FIG 2). Yes,,your police officer of Saturday night suggested this to be the way it should happen. Absolutely and utterly STUPID. ACT Police seriously want us to believe that they think that preforming a U turn over an area that now is an unbroken white line, but wasn't always so, that has been done for years without incident is more hazardous than preforming a U turn in the middle of a busy intersection? It is the most insanely stupid piece of traffic advice I have ever heard. An ACT Officer actively promoting a dangerous act. I really do think you need to revisit this advice, because when there is an accident because of it...and there will be...saying "Oh, but the Police told us to U turn here" somehow isn't going to wash...is it?
I think this is worthy of ACT Govt intervention to remove that unbroken white line and replace it with the broken white line that was there for years and years. A strip of paint doesn't suddenly make an action unsafe. Any muppet should be able to figure that one out. And when the line becomes broken....well..you'll just have to find another revenue raising stream. You could start by booking the private cars that park on the taxi ranks all over the city at night after the parking rangers go home. Something that is obviously beneath your station in life as asking you to do that is like asking you to rip your arm off.
While I am on this particular line of thought...before you try cleaning up our 'mess'..perhaps you could try keeping your own house in order? FIG 3 shows a police van parked in Alinga Rank lights off, engine off so that the occupants could have a chat with their colleagues on the footpath. Here's a thought...go have your social conversation somewhere else. And for the love of God YJI-40F QUIT SPEEDING THROUGH ALINGA. Yes..we see you. We see where you go...no where, and we see what you do when you get there....nothing. So why speed and endanger peoples lives ? Seriously..not cool...and WAY more dangerous than crossing a unbroken white line in Alinga Rank...and probably not quite as dangerous as preforming a U turn in the middle of a busy intersection.
FIG 1
FIG 2
FIG 3