Golfers Hit In Right Direction

For the second year running the Meredith Golf Club, between Geelong and Ballarat has come up with a great way to raise funds for the Long Ride.

The small club in country Victoria attracted nearly 40 golfers who all took part in a day long tournament to win prizes not normally seen in a golfing tournament.

With prizes up for grabs for both handicapped and non-handicapped players it proved to be a great day that raised $1297.85 which will all got to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia through the Long Ride.

Organisers of the event worked tirelessly to ensure that there were plenty of prizes for the tournament and also a raffle that catered mostly for golfers.  A huge thankyou must not only go to the golfers who travelled to Meredith to play but also the many companies that threw their support behind the vent, these were -
   Barwon Heads Resort
   13th Beach Golf Course
   Tutt Bryant Hire
   Mercure Geelong
   Portarlington Golf Course
   The House of Golf (Geelong)
   Crown Casino
   as well as the many other people who supported the day.  Without this sort of support we couldn't make days like this such a huge success for the PCFA and the Long Ride.

CityLink ... the missing link.

Hmmm ... it’s interesting that CityLink say they will refund motorists for the debacle that occurred today when both the Domain and Burnley tunnels were closed due to a computer glitch.

This is fine if you have an eTag or day pass (you have to chase this yourself) but what about the many more motorists that don’t usually use CityLink and yet were still affected by the many traffic jams around Melbourne that were a flow on from the closures?

I had staff who were over 3 hours late to work, and as some of the work is time critical we were affected greatly by this.  I myself sat in the car for two hours before having had enough I turned around and went home, frustrated by this at least I was able to jump on the bike and make my way through the traffic somewhat, still to turn up to work many hours passed the time I would’ve liked to start at.

Simply refunding motorist who use CityLink is not good enough how about refunding the wasted fuel or work hours that everyone else has had to endure?  It’s ridiculous that a city can close down because of one set of tunnels.  CityLink should be forced to allow free travel or somehow compensate motorists and businesses affected by this morning’s debacle.