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| "text": "It's Monday morning and there seems to be far less traffic on the road compared to usual.", | |
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| "text": "It's no longer school holidays and there's no public holiday today.", | |
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| "text": "The amount of traffic going by is more like what is seen on a Sunday. Usually there's traffic backed up outside for peak hour.", | |
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| "text": "Even the Hume seems to have way less traffic on it.", | |
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| "text": "Any strikes or events on today that could be causing this?", | |
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| "text": "Edit: I figured out a possibility.", | |
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| "text": "The Americans have their SuperBowl on today.", | |
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| "text": "A couple of Aussies were tipped to be playing.", | |
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| "text": "Could picture a lot of people chucking a sickie to watch the game.", | |
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| "text": "Maybe they’re all on the far south coast. Sooo many caravans and campers today. I guess everyone just decided to take a long weekend.", | |
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| "text": "People have been back about a month and RDOs are due.", | |
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| "text": "Generally Mondays and Fridays are a bit quieter due to RDOs.", | |
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| "text": "School holidays have ended - so maybe the people without school aged children can now have a holiday while it's still warm but outside of peak times so avoiding all the crowds?", | |
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| "text": "Maybe the Super Bowl", | |
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| "text": "Fuck me the traffic in the eastern suburbs was horrific this morning. Wanna swap???", | |
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| "text": "Gee, some people are lucky to live the life.", | |
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| "text": "Mondays are usually much busier on the roads here than today.", | |
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| "text": "Usually looks like a car park before 09:30.", | |
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| "text": "That's what I said above earlier in my edit.", | |
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| "text": "Mate mate I’m going to stop you there. I live on South Coast in one of those “nice” beachside towns and for us locals we hate the school holidays & long weekends. I live 3 streets from the beach but on weekends and during the holidays I avoid it like the plague. Traffic becomes a nightmare, food disappears from shelves at the supermarket like a swamp of locusts and our beach gets taken over & littered on. It may be good for business but it’s a nightmare for locals. Plus we don’t get new stock in some stores (Kmart here sucks!)", | |
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| "text": "Right!?", | |
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| "text": "Fair enough. I must have missed that ", | |
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| "text": "How is that relevant to my comment?", | |
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| "text": "I was saying that some people are lucky if they can afford to go and head off somewhere from the city/metropolitan areas", | |
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| "text": "“Lucky” they say, not for some of us. I used to be one of those lucky people but since living here I’ve come to realise that weekenders and tourists seem to “forget” that those towns actually have people who live there and want their town to be respected & cared for.", | |
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