Thanks for attending todays event in some great weather, we hope you all had as much fun as we did.
Special thanks again go out to Custom Kings, the Tim Rogers Band and Skipping Girl Vinegar for putting on a great show.
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Thanks!
One Comment
Apologies but as a resident of Docklands off Bourke street this event may have been a success for partipants but speaking as one of the many residents who lived inside the boundary of your event I must express my disatisfaction and grievance at being treated in such a poor manner.
Whilst we had received notification of the events some weeks back it was in the form of an advertisement flyer, not a warning that the course route was going to mean access to enter or leave the local streets, that contained multiple apartment buildings, was going to be completely cut off during the event. Docklands is becoming something of a favourite for event holders, however in this part of Docklands your event has been the first to plan a route that permitted not even limited access or exit for residents. Add to this several factors and as a resident I must express my anger and dissapointment at being so openly disrespected:
- absence of any warning communications about road closures,
- seeming total unwillingness on the part of your officials manning the roadblocks [at Vic Harbour end] to accept residents making an entirely legitimate request to leave the local area by car.
- forcefulness on the part of roadblock officials in disrespecting any local area residents making requests to leave, something that thankfully changed after persistence on my part.
- incredible determination on the part of an event official who attended the roadblock area at Collins street [on a bicycle] to scold the official, doing his best to manage agitated residents [in our cars] at the scene, for having let us through.
- the risk to personal safety that the pressured roadblock official had to endure from one irate Mercedes driver who intimidated him by physically pushing the front bumper of his car against his legs, one would assume in an attempt to force him out of the way.
Please understand that I will be making my concerns known both to the Docklands association responsible and the Melbourne City Council. I hope and trust that if this event is run again that the route is changed to respect residents right to leave or enter the area by car, and that the [revised] route is communicated at a couple of points in the lead up.
Sincerely
Tim Hallifax