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Vic Roads welcomes the Hot Rods to Bright …

Posted in Bright Australia by Ray Dixon on 5 November, 2009

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It’s Thursday before the big Hot Rod event, the biggest of its kind in Southern Hemisphere, with over 1,000 highly decorated and expensive Street Rods about to roll into Bright – and they start arriving today. So what is this on my nature strip by the Great Alpine Road so bright & early? What’s going on with THE ONLY road into town?

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And what is this truck doing across the road, what’s it carrying? Are they ….

….. stones?

Oh no!

Tar …

…. and stones.

They couldn’t be going to … 

Surely they wouldn’t ….

Not even Vic Roads would be so stupid …..

OR MAYBE THEY WOULD:

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  1. Noel Stone said, on 5 November, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    They’ve just done the same thing in Myrtleford too!

  2. Ray Dixon said, on 5 November, 2009 at 3:48 pm

    We’ve got some rodders in already Noel, and they are not happy. One of them even said, “It’s like they don’t want us here”. I tried to explain that Vic Roads is separate to the local authorities but the impression they’re getting is not good. How could this happen? Does Vic Roads tell anyone in advance like the council, I wonder?

  3. Orville_B_Croft said, on 5 November, 2009 at 6:35 pm

    Oh man. That’s just brainless.

  4. Baldrick said, on 5 November, 2009 at 7:38 pm

    VicRoads to be tar and feathered by the revheads?

  5. Ray Dixon said, on 5 November, 2009 at 8:42 pm

    Wait until the barricades go up in the shopping centre tomorrow morning, Baldrick. It’s like the final insult.

  6. Don said, on 5 November, 2009 at 8:56 pm

    I reckon Wally organised it.

  7. Ray Dixon said, on 5 November, 2009 at 9:08 pm

    COMMENT. OF. THE. WEEK., Don.

  8. jr said, on 6 November, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    OK, here’s my contribution. That part of roadway is a state highway, right? That makes it the jurisdiction of Vic Roads. They use private contractors for that kind of work.

    Having said that, every piece of roadway has it’s programmed regular (every so many years) maintenance resurfacing. This is programmed years in advance, so in theory, council should have been aware of it.

    So that brings us to the bit about the left and right hands and the communication between the two, if you get my drift.

  9. Ray Dixon said, on 6 November, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    It is a private contractor JR, and believe it or not they have also been working on it today.

    Yeah I agree that the council would have been aware of the proposed works – and CLEARLY they should have requested a deferral. The fact that they didn’t seems to suggest they don’t give a shit about the hot rodders.

  10. jr said, on 6 November, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    I’ll be over in the morning to poach the event for Wodonga. I’ll bring over my shiny new brochure on next year’s Chrysler show.

    It shows the fantastic new Gateway Lakes Reserve Wodonga City Council has prepared on the Lincoln Causeway, right next door to the Murray River. It can comfortably hold all the rods.

    Who do I see to formalize the paperwork?

  11. Ray Dixon said, on 6 November, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    You are banned from Bright. The gate is closed.

  12. Baldrick said, on 6 November, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    Given the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I propose we run a Trabi festival. Maybe a Lada Niva extravaganza. A P 76 procession?

    Let’s get some truly woeful cars into the town and make them as popular as pugs. Give Daylesford a run for its money as the alternative town.

  13. jr said, on 6 November, 2009 at 5:42 pm

    I’d go with the P76 / Morris Marina. “Leylands a la Alpine”

    Good chance of breaking the crowd record the following year.

    Won’t matter then how many times they reseal the road either. Owners wouldn’t give a rat’s tail.

    Wally’s probably got one to enter himself.

  14. Ray Dixon said, on 6 November, 2009 at 6:29 pm

    Give Daylesford a run for its money as the alternative town.

    So a revhead fest for gays, Baldrick? Might as well invite all the boys from Geelong FC along too.


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