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By: raydixon

raydixon — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:23:19 +0000

Ah yes, it’s the “gateway” to “Beautiful Bright”. In fact I wanted to put a slogan on our advertising “First on the right as you enter Bright” but Leanne wouldn’t let me. Bloody leftist woman!

By: Dave from Albury

Dave from Albury — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:50:48 +0000

So Ray, does that make Grevillea Gardens the Western Suburbs?

By: raydixon

raydixon — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:15:48 +0000

Over here in ~~Hicksville~~ Bright, we’ve got a “snob area”, or at least it is in some people’s minds.

It’s the old golf course estate on the north side of the town & river. It runs off “Toorak Road”, now that gives you a clue.

One of our local “identities”, a “lady” who shall remain nameless but who has a propensity to jump on the bandwagon of evry popular cause like “save the trees” & “saveBrightfrom Coles” and who gets around town sometimes in an old horse & buggy (literally) and whose surname (well her current surname, she’s been married a few times) rhymes with “Jelly”, allegedly puts out invitations to all her neighbours each year around Christmas to come and join them in the “NORTH SHORE” christmas bash.

I kid you not. I’m not sure how many wankers actually accept these up yourself invitations but believe me there ain’t nothing special about the “NORTH SHORE” of Bright anyway. She’d be a Liberal voter for “shore”.

By: Dave from Albury

Dave from Albury — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:08:03 +0000

Albury simply isn’t a large enough town to have “snob” areas

Try running that argument past anyone who lives in Forrest Hill.

On the whole Albury is one of the best integrated towns I have ever lived in, your observation about no ghettos is mostly right. The exception to this is one or two areas in Lavington where entire blocks have nothing but units on them and seem largely derelict.

By: alburywodongaonlinechronicle

alburywodongaonlinechronicle — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:07:54 +0000

oh Borella road is just shitty now with the lights and the roundabout, it’s a circus.
It always was a lousy road but it’s worse now.
Area snobbery in Albury always amuses me no end, East Albury is hardly Toorak, Ivanhoe or South Yarra for that matter is it?
It’s like Hapeney look down on Tuppence as far as I’m concerned.
Albury simply isn’t a large enough town to have “snob” areas, and even in places there are two or three expensive properties shoulder to shoulder, the town planners had the forethought to ensure that there’s a housing commission area never further than a kilometre or so away.
It’s good that way, it keeps areas from becoming too ghetto like and keeps the toffs from becoming to insular and up themselves.

By: raydixon

raydixon — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:44:19 +0000

It sure does, it means I get to avoid ‘peak hour’ in Bright, which can be so busy sometimes you have to stop at the roundabout to let a couple of cars through.

So “Lavies’s” not the go over there I take it?

By: Dave from Albury

Dave from Albury — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:28:14 +0000

East Albury is doing OK in general, we’re still a lot better off in the perception stakes than anywhere past North St. The irony is that heaps of development is happening on this side of town, while they are almost out of land to the west, this will only exacerbate the problems on the Borella Rd interchange. On the rare occasions that I need to go into town when most people are on their way to work I am gob-smacked by how bad that interchange is, working from home does come with some benefits.

By: raydixon

raydixon — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:01:51 +0000

My impression is the freeway has created an even bigger divide in living conditions and, subsequently, property values in Albury. Those who live west and well away from the freeway are now even more better off than those on the east. If I were looking for a property in Albury to live in, I’d be staying well away from the freeway side.

It reminds me of when the SE “Freeway” was first built in Melbourne in 1970. It only ran from the Hoddle Street/Punt Road bridge in Richmond to the leafy suburb of Toorak (naturally) but they put it on the (then working class) Richmond side of the Yarra.

The long term social impacts of this misguided decision could be quite significant for Alburyites – until it becomes trendy to live on the “east side”.

By: Dave from Albury

Dave from Albury — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:37:35 +0000

The Borella Rd Interchange is a mess, largely because there are only two west bound lanes, meaning that one of them has to double as a turning lane, thereby holding up traffic. It usually takes longer to get from the Borella Rd Interchange to Dean St than it does to get from Wodonga to the Interchange. None of the others are much better, East St has confusing lights, meaning people often run the red they are at because they see the green further ahead, while the Racecourse Rd and Thurgoona Drive exits have no lights and poor visibility, they are accidents waiting to happen.

All of this was pointed out to the RTA, but they are refusing to acknowledge any problems.

By: raydixon

raydixon — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:39:51 +0000

We were over in Albury today and what struck me was the chaos around the Borella Road bridge. Too many stpos & starts. I nearly ran up the arse of the car in front.