aVex

I've lived here for four years. We are owner occupiers. What I have seen over the last few years are the most ridiculous planning from the governments.

They decided to redevelop Harbour Esplanade. This costs taxpayers more money because they now decided that tram stops should have been kept in line with the City of Melbourne, which is the centre of all main roads. How come this wasn't thought of much earlier?

We would have thought that the redevelopment would have made better changes for the future then. Since now we have more corporate and apartment buildings sprawling including more activity at the popular Eithad Stadium, surely since they are remodelling Harbour Esplanade, they would increase the road lanes available. The truth is now, they have shrunk it, certain parts of the road is now one lane. I cannot understand this, there is so much land on either side, why not take advantage of this?

Tram services are appalling. The frequency isn't enough or reliable enough to be trusted. Once you go past peak hours your tram wait times go over 15 minutes! Sometime stretching to almost 30 minutes.

The amount of pubs and drunk people shouting in the middle of night has increased so much in recent years I cannot leave my apartment windows open, since they will wake me. You get drunkards/hooligans making a scene at times.

In summary, you pay extravagant prices to live near the CBD, yet it's harder to get to the CBD due to traffic congestion, not reliable public transportation. I wish everyone here all the best in the next few years as more and more people move in (hint, ask yourself how many entry and exit roads there are to Docklands and can it support that many people).