Vic / NSW Border closes

[Mrcoolabah1au]

Yes ok thanks for that great message

[Greynomad]

Relief... of a sort.

Successfully applied for an exemption pass for self & SWMBO.
Problem is, we have to re-apply in 14 days, when current one expires!

Then there's the problem of actually crossing the border.
How much time to I add to our normal travel times to ensure we get to appointments on time? We'll either arrive late or an hour early!

Had enough of that living in Melbourne. That was a major reason for the tree-change.

[Coolabah1au]

Maybe 1hour [emoji848]


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[Coolabah1au]

Border closed


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[supersparky]

Ray, In a back handed sort of way, you are probably a little lucky that a lot of heavy transport crosses to Corowa. At some of the little places along the river the ABC is suggesting that the bridge is closed and you must go another way. I suppose it depends on the size of the town, facilities and shops.
On the ABC early news they reported that quite a few campers and caravans (their words not mine) were at the wayside stop just on the Vic side along the Princes Hwy near Genoa. But there are always people overnighting there on the old caravan park site.

[native pepper]

David, the old caravan park is at Genoa, by the river. The wayside stop they are talking about is probably the one just after the NSW border, there are two, one is on the Vic side and the other in NSW. There's a lot of room at those places for a number of vans and as said, there are always vans parked there at night time. Can't understand why they don't park at Genoa, it's a lovely spot with facilities.

It's a wonder we all don't have the virus, considering the incompetent stupidly of the authorities. They let an entire planeload from Melb last night disembark in Sydney without any checks. Now they have discovered a member of a family who has been holidaying in Merimbula for a week, tested positive in Melb before leaving, but they didn't tell them. The family has toured the coast, including dining at the Tathra pub where there were 80 people eating. Now they may have to shut down Merimbula and maybe the entire Bega valley because of the gross incompetence of the pollies and bureaucrats.

[Greynomad]

With you, Bruce!

Us border residents are paying for the stupidity & selfishness of a few morons in Melbourne who couldn't/wouldn't/didn't care about infection controls such as social distancing & hand-washing.

A fair few of the infections were traced to huge family gatherings to celebrate the end of Ramadan. Others to people who were told to go home and isolate themselves, and immediately went shopping or on a pub-crawl!!
Because of them, we're not allowed to travel into NSW without a permit, and absolutely forbidden to enter Queensland!

[jon_d]

t's a wonder we all don't have the virus, considering the incompetent stupidly of the authorities. They let an entire planeload from Melb last night disembark in Sydney without any checks. Now they have discovered a member of a family who has been holidaying in Merimbula for a week, tested positive in Melb before leaving, but they didn't tell them. The family has toured the coast, including dining at the Tathra pub where there were 80 people eating. Now they may have to shut down Merimbula and maybe the entire Bega valley because of the gross incompetence of the pollies and bureaucrats.

I read they told him, he was negative. So he and the family traveled in good faith.

[Coolabah1au]

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[Greynomad]

How much time to I add to our normal travel times to ensure we get to appointments on time? We'll either arrive late or an hour early!

Maybe 1hour [emoji848]

A 5km queue along the Hume at Albury/Wodonga this morning... five hours to cross the line!!

They'd better get a lot quicker at passing cars through tomorrow...