samuraisaint wrote: ↑Tue 16 Apr 2019 8:57pm
I don't know where you're posting from WellardSaint but the public transport from the southeast into, and out of, the city has been atrocious the past month or so. Getting to the footy has been a massive testament to our sanity and our patience - with the exception of the Essendon match.
It took me an hour just to get out of the underground car park leaving the ground on Sunday evening, because of the traffic congestion. Then I had to deal with the chaos in the city traffic. All four railway lines from suburban corridors where St Kilda and Hawthorn supporters live were out of action. I reckon maybe 5 or 7,000 people didn't go Sunday due to this.
This weekend will be more of the same with two southern suburban clubs playing, the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines out again, the Frankston line have no trains between Moorabbin and the city, and no Sandringham line trains again for the entire long weekend. Which is bad timing, because it is along these three lines where the majority of both of these teams live.
This time however anyone going has to just hope that the MCG carpark is open, which it isn't always.
Absolute joke. My tax dollars at work.
Margin: Saints by 7 points.
Crowd: 37,000
I put a few gaps in your post to make it a bit easier to read.
WellardSaint was born in Melbourne many years ago, in the glory days of the red phone box with rotary dialler,
the 2 buttons marked "A" and "B",
and moved to Perth when mobile phones were becoming commonplace and SMS had just been unleashed on the public.
Have been back to Melbourne a few times since,
and have seen how horrendous the traffic can be, on a normal day, almost as bad as Tokyo,
so can understand the pain endured during sporting events.
It beggars belief that the major arteries of the train system can be totally shut down.
A real Sainter will pledge allegiance to the ❤
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and despise the Pies, the Blues, and the Injectors.
Remember one of the 10 Commandments :
Thou shalt have no other team before thee