Are you looking forward to the Commonwealth Games?
Well, are you?
On the one hand, I am, in a way. I imagine the opening and closing ceremony to be filled with music, dancing and fireworks. I also look forward to watching the competitions, hoping all competitors are competing in all fairness without steriods. I also imagine Melbourne crowded with people … where the pavements are filled with people with standing room only … all the cafes, restaurants and hotels filled with visitors doing wonders for our economy.
And that brings me to think of the increased traffic, on the roads, trains, trams and buses. Which makes me think of the increased security, more police everywhere, crowds of people suffocating me in the heat of the day … all of which I try to avoid!
I guess there is something for everyone at the Games, the good and the bad.
So, are you looking forward to the Games in a couple of weeks time?
I’m not looking forward to the amount of people that are going to be around, and am going to stay inside as much as I can.
I’m looking forward to the free entertainment. Apparently there’s going to be a free circus, and stuff like that.
I’m not looking forward to the amount of police and private secruity that are going to be around. It means a lot of of people I know won’t want to be in the CBD.
I’m looking forward to Clean, an art installation in Hosier Lane, about the clean-up process.
So I’ve got pretty mixed feelings about it.
I’m not living in Melbourne, right now, but in Osaka, Japan. As unliveable as this city is, and as much as I long to be back in Melbourne for a while, I’m glad I’m not there now. Cities ought to be comfortable and lived in, built for residents and not as a carnival for tourists. If I was in Melbourne now, I’d be getting ready to leave for the entire duration of the Games.
I’ve got no interest in sport, and no interest in the kind of visitors who would come to see or participate in sport. The whole Commonwealth-Games-inspired redevelopment of Spencer Street station has been a fiasco, and the Games themselves will inconvenience hundreds of thousands of residents and workers. We would have been better off without the event.
No wonder you want to get OUT - you don’t like sport!
We are going to Melbourne for the games - we love our sport and it is costing us a pretty penny as well! We are dying for the hype….but you are right - something for everybody…our something is the synergy and excitement of supporting our athletes. Go AUSSIES!