Some of the main challenges and events characteristic for the Melbourne city have been shaping its appearance as the busy urban environment. Congestion becomes another major concern for the city up to date, with the recent accidents that have affected the daily traffic flow. The collision occurred on the in Melbourne’s northern suburbs and led to travel disruptions: the delays reached 40 minutes during the peak in the morning. This episode is the best example of the further attempts of the city to solve the problem of steadily growing transportation demand.
The Melbourne City Council and VicRoads are currently ongoing to come up with such traffic problems by coming up with some measures aimed at reducing and effecting the flow and a general outlook of roads. However, the present string of accidents and breakdown reveals that there is no shortage of investments in infrastructure and traffic management systems. Road users are also urged to warn their friends and families on the state of the roads and whenever they can delay traveling on the roads they should do so.
Other than traffic problems, Melbourne’s CBD recently suffered huge disruption resulting from a giant union protest. Thousands of mining and construction employees affiliated to the Central Federation of Building and Metallurgy Employees (CFMEU) went on a rampage and closed the City Centre. This protest now regarded as one of the largest seen at any union meeting in recent past brought together, workers from many industries through common grievances on labor relations and standards set across the country.
The protest was not violent but it disrupted commerce as well as residential life in the city’s central business district. There were disruptions in public transport services thus many stores and offices did not receive as much traffic as they expected. Borough leaders coordinated with union leaders to contain this incident and maintain law and order considering the freedom of assembly. The event has also elicited the public debate on the freedom of workers to strike and demonstration related economic losses on business all over the major cities.
On the sad news, the city has been dealing with the consequences of a terrible event that occurred in Daylesford; a driver in a pub tragedy will not stand trial. Such development has resulted in increased discussions on road safety especially in associated tourismFriendly zones. Public agencies are evaluating safety protocols and are already looking into possible further actions to avoid a repetition of the event.
In the field of sports, Melbourne remains to this date a great sporting ground among athletes in the present generation. A couple of weeks ago Essendon and Sydney engaged in AFLW match and there were many interesting moments at the game. Essendon came out of the ditch as the team won a very tactical game that would later involved controversy following a hit by Madison Prespakis. The event has again raised questions about players’ behavior and the level of animosity in ladies’ football.
However, the rugby league fans of the city have something to cheer for as Jahrome Hughes of Melbourne Storm snagged the Dally M medal. Hughes meteoric rise through the ladder from being nothing more than a nominal footballer to one of the best players in the game has been seen as the American dream come true for this young man. He is considered the living proof of Melbourne’s rich sporting tradition, and athletic prowess developed in the area across the numerous disciplines.
Local issues have also seen environmental issues take the front cover with an attempt to evac a dead fin whale that stranded on a Victorian shore. Thus, the event has invited public attention on the matter concerning marine conservation and interference of human activities in marine environment. Officials and some conservation agencies are trying to ensure that, any effort to remove the whale is done without causing harm to the environment as well.
Some of these are the following, Melbourne has gone through all of these and continues to face them and as the city bleeds through its hardships their unity and strength still remains. Starting from infrastructure requirements to sports victory, Melbourne articulates its capable approach towards handling the complexities of urbanity. More actions will be unveiled in these ongoing narratives over the next several weeks as the city puzzles out the problems and grows further as one of the liveliest major cities in Australia.
