Played in a thrash metal band during the Halcyon days doing covers of the likes of Anthrax and Metallica and trying our best to write original material. Performing is fun but only a small part of the experience. Our band was one of a 1/2 dozen metal/speed/punk bands in town so when not playing we would be at each other's gigs. Many of us had rented sheds for rehearsing (decked out in secondhand carpet) so could often drop in on each other. Very much a community and something overlooked.
I believe the SF metal scene and the NY scene at the time was very much the same.
This would appear to be further validation of the "Perception is controlled hallucination" theory. Sensory input is secondary and serves only to correct our evolutionary developed predictive processing.
When you have the electronic ticketing system already in place like Brisbane it makes sense to use it to monitor usage, so you can precisely see each journey, and better plan scheduling and expansion. For example, you would be able to see how many people pass through the two CBD stations crossing the North/South divide in the network. The new Cross River Rail expansion for example will be the first line that doesn't pass through Central.
Bit of a bugbear of mine, but the cross river rail project is mostly a stopgap. Brisbane really needed standard gauge and double decker trains before it became so built up. We are already at trains per minute capacity for some of the inner city bridges, and duplication in the inner city is highly destructive. If we could increase the capacity of the vehicles themselves we would be way better off. But the cheap/compromise position is to just bypass the problem entirely.
Whats worse is that, theres a certain perspective, one of declining CBD use, where cross river rail makes a mountain of sense. But in that case we should be bypassing the CBD with a lot of room for expansion, ie, 8 lines worth of track. But this isnt being done either.
>When you have the electronic ticketing system already in place like Brisbane it makes sense to use it to monitor usage
This and being able to continue charging fines is why it was left in place 100%
I think the cost saving will be realised by not having to expand the road network as quickly if they convince people to use public transport. The cost of land acquisition/resumption along with the improbability of widening some central bottlenecks like Coronation Drive, the SE Arterial and the hell-hole that is Hale Street.
Personally, the $1 commute from the Sunshine Coast has been very good. I occasionally drive in but the Bruce Hwy has been a constant process of widening each section as they barely keep up with the traffic increases.
I think what you will see is a lot more people moving out to residential areas north of Brisbane seeking cheaper housing as they can take advantage of the almost free travel. Especially if they eventually build the Rail/Light Rail through South Caloundra to Maroochydore.
Worked for a car insurance firm about a decade ago and the whole business ran on their Big Iron. I joined the company to work on a customer facing web UI that hooked into an API layer the server group developed to pull data from the Db2.
The callcentre however still used the TUI for all customer inquiries; it was only the customers who got a pretty interface to view their details.
Depending on which system you were logged into, you had a green screen (production) or magenta (development).
I believe the SF metal scene and the NY scene at the time was very much the same.
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