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@chameleon54 wrote:
@bright.ton42 wrote:
@lyhargr_0 wrote:
@bright.ton42 wrote:ok but which one? I thought there were about 30 border points.
Am assuming it's the whole border, what a bleeding mess this is becoming/has become
Yes it has. Just wondering if all cars with Vic numberplates will be stopped on the highway (but which highway) close to NSW? It just doesn't seem workable.
SA has had border closures with VIC for many weeks now. The police have border controls directly on the border, but also run a constant loop of patrol cars up to 150 km. from the border on the main highways.These stop interstate registered cars well into the state. This helps to catch those who slip through the back roads etc and enter the highways 30 or 40 km. from the border.
They also run road block blitzes at choke points in main highways perhaps 100 - 150 km. from the border. One blitz 150 km. from the Vic. border ( at Meningie ) caught 19 interstate motorists in one afternoon who had avoided the main roads into the state. Each person recieving a $1050 fine and 14 days monitored quarantine..........
The only problem is that the patrols often only run 8am - 5 pm. with highways completely deserted in the middle of the night.
The vigilantes rule the night ....
@go-tazz wrote:
@chameleon54 wrote:
@cezm wrote:
-@go-tazz wrote:Like I said others don't seem to understand how the border towns operate here and that closing the borders
simply doesn't work between NSW and Vic.
But nonetheless itt's happening
As far as residents near border towns go, the South Australian government has a permit system where people apply online and receive a permit to cross the border to attend medical appointments, shopping or take kids to school.
This seems to work smoothly. My sister lives in Victoria, but works in a South Australian town close to the border. She hasn't had any dramas yet and she has been crossing back and forth over the border daily, for many weeks now under thOne suspected case had recently travelled to Melbourne, returning before harsher restrictions were introduced in hotspot suburbs.e permit scheme. I cant see why N.S.W and Vic border towns should be any different.
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The NSW Victoria border is NOTHING like any other border in Aus and what works for your sister wont work the same for that border.
In Albury and Wodonga alone (pop 100,000+) can have over 10,000 people that cross that border 5 days a week for work and health care.
That region now has three cases as one idiot decided to travel from a Melborne hotspot before stricter measured were put into place.
Should've put roadblocks on all the highways leading out from Melbourne as that's where the problem lies.
The country areas all managed any early cases quickly and effectively and showed the city how to best handle it but obviously they aren't smart enough to learn in the city but quick to punish for no reason.
With Yarrawonga (8000 pop) and Mulwala (2000 pop) you'll have more people come from NSW to Vic as most of the shopping,health care,schooling,work is situated ther
Same with Tocumwal/Barooga where most of the same is situated in Cobram (6000) which is in Victoria.
None of those would need a permit because they live in NSW but can come across the border into Vic and mingle with the people that need a permit to travel less than one km to NSW.
These all would have residents move back and forth across the border both or either way daily and many of those would cross over multiple times.
Looks like a similar permit system will be made available to residents of border towns along the river. Of course no system is perfect, especially one implemented at very short notice, but the South Australian experience is that it works very well all things considered. I know a number of Victorian people who have permits and regularly travel to S.A. border towns and I haven't heard of any major dramas.
It is probably more of a convenience issue for people who may only cross the border now and then, having to apply for the permit and explain at the border why they need it. For the genuine, serious, regular cross border citizens its probably less of an issue than for the occasional border crosser.
@go-tazz wrote:
@chameleon54 wrote:
@cezm wrote:
-@go-tazz wrote:Like I said others don't seem to understand how the border towns operate here and that closing the borders
simply doesn't work between NSW and Vic.
But nonetheless itt's happening
As far as residents near border towns go, the South Australian government has a permit system where people apply online and receive a permit to cross the border to attend medical appointments, shopping or take kids to school.
This seems to work smoothly. My sister lives in Victoria, but works in a South Australian town close to the border. She hasn't had any dramas yet and she has been crossing back and forth over the border daily, for many weeks now under thOne suspected case had recently travelled to Melbourne, returning before harsher restrictions were introduced in hotspot suburbs.e permit scheme. I cant see why N.S.W and Vic border towns should be any different.
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The NSW Victoria border is NOTHING like any other border in Aus and what works for your sister wont work the same for that border.
In Albury and Wodonga alone (pop 100,000+) can have over 10,000 people that cross that border 5 days a week for work and health care.
That region now has three cases as one idiot decided to travel from a Melborne hotspot before stricter measured were put into place.
Should've put roadblocks on all the highways leading out from Melbourne as that's where the problem lies.
The country areas all managed any early cases quickly and effectively and showed the city how to best handle it but obviously they aren't smart enough to learn in the city but quick to punish for no reason.
With Yarrawonga (8000 pop) and Mulwala (2000 pop) you'll have more people come from NSW to Vic as most of the shopping,health care,schooling,work is situated ther
Same with Tocumwal/Barooga where most of the same is situated in Cobram (6000) which is in Victoria.
None of those would need a permit because they live in NSW but can come across the border into Vic and mingle with the people that need a permit to travel less than one km to NSW.
These all would have residents move back and forth across the border both or either way daily and many of those would cross over multiple times.
Plus all the little back roads Tazz ......
@lyhargr_0 wrote:
@go-tazz wrote:
@chameleon54 wrote:
@cezm wrote:
-@go-tazz wrote:Like I said others don't seem to understand how the border towns operate here and that closing the borders
simply doesn't work between NSW and Vic.
But nonetheless itt's happening
As far as residents near border towns go, the South Australian government has a permit system where people apply online and receive a permit to cross the border to attend medical appointments, shopping or take kids to school.
This seems to work smoothly. My sister lives in Victoria, but works in a South Australian town close to the border. She hasn't had any dramas yet and she has been crossing back and forth over the border daily, for many weeks now under thOne suspected case had recently travelled to Melbourne, returning before harsher restrictions were introduced in hotspot suburbs.e permit scheme. I cant see why N.S.W and Vic border towns should be any different.
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The NSW Victoria border is NOTHING like any other border in Aus and what works for your sister wont work the same for that border.
In Albury and Wodonga alone (pop 100,000+) can have over 10,000 people that cross that border 5 days a week for work and health care.
That region now has three cases as one idiot decided to travel from a Melborne hotspot before stricter measured were put into place.
Should've put roadblocks on all the highways leading out from Melbourne as that's where the problem lies.
The country areas all managed any early cases quickly and effectively and showed the city how to best handle it but obviously they aren't smart enough to learn in the city but quick to punish for no reason.
With Yarrawonga (8000 pop) and Mulwala (2000 pop) you'll have more people come from NSW to Vic as most of the shopping,health care,schooling,work is situated ther
Same with Tocumwal/Barooga where most of the same is situated in Cobram (6000) which is in Victoria.
None of those would need a permit because they live in NSW but can come across the border into Vic and mingle with the people that need a permit to travel less than one km to NSW.
These all would have residents move back and forth across the border both or either way daily and many of those would cross over multiple times.
Plus all the little back roads Tazz ......
Walwa/Jingellic is another one, I know the area well, having lived in both Corryong and Albury for a number of yrs .....
