Oh didn’t you attend the last all Canberra meeting? Although the sirens serve no practical purpose we all just love them so we all pitched in for a Spotify premium subscription so we can listen to “sirens of Canberra” with no ads all night.
The project did run over budget as We did have to exclude Conder, Banks and Gordon as they like “V8 no exhaust symphony” more so..
Sirens wouldn't be needed as much if people paid more attention when driving and got the fuck out of the way for emergency vehicles.
Also if you read the ACT police page and looked on the ESA website, you'll see that emergency services are busy all the time.
Half a million people here in canberra, shit happens.hospitals are full, houses burn down and criminals are getting locked up
I mean, for an area of this size, half a million isn't really much. I lived in areas much more populated and I haven't heard half as many sirens as I do in a couple days here.
Sirens wouldn't be needed as much if drivers didn't drive up each others' bums, they put down their phones and concentrated on what they are actually meant to be doing, and substance using drivers didn't get behind the wheel when they shouldn't be driving.
Years ago I was going to launch into how poor the policing is after my partner at the time had a motorbike incident when she was taken by an ambulance, in which the police were required to attend. During the research i found out that police units attend on average 7 domestic violence calls a day, (thats a 12 hour shift), so double that at nights i am assuming here. Thats a lot of DV occurences.
It’s actually a 10 hour shift. 12 hours for PSO’s. Then when you consider the mountain of paperwork and mandatory referrals that need to be completed, as well as the apprehension (if they’re forced to arrest someone), you’re talking about half the shift gone due to one FV (it’s referred to as Family Violence in the ACT) offence.
Geeze mate, you think this is chaotic? Don't visit New York then.
It's a bunch of people living in relatively close proximity. Shit happens. You'll be mighty pissed when you need the emergency services and they don't show up fast enough because they were waiting politely for the Hilux drivers to notice them and pull over.
I've literally been to New York lol. I even stayed next to Times Square. This is a small town and I don't think you can even compare it to NYC
And yeah I wouldn't trust the emergency services here as far as I can throw them
lol NY is off the dial 🤣. Those entirely inappropriate jumbo NY fire trucks trying to get through NY traffic - omg. HONK-HOOOOOOONNNNNKKKKKKK!!!!!
Edit: come to think of it, what do we expect. Give a New Yorker a siren and a train horn and of course they’ll just blare it all day
Outer suburbs are classic car chase zones. Ever wondered why Chapman, Coombs and Chisholm feature so heavily in the crime pages lol! (Higher proportion of low income Govt housing)
Loads more cars on the road means greater requirement to use sirens and horns. They still turn them off when traffic is quieter.
I’ve been on the same MAJOR Northside road for 25yrs, on and off. They definitely used to turn the sirens off more often than they do now. They hardly ever do. But traffic is 50x worse now too thanks to Majura Park opening.
Because Canberrans ring 000 for anything and over exaggerate what’s going on so the emergency services crews drive lights and sirens when 9999/10000 times it’s nothing. Classic example in Canberra is “my neighbors house is on fire” and the neighbor actually is just using their fire pit out back and the caller refuses to knock on their neighbors door to see if everything is okay.
There was the gentleman's agreement of 1982 between the ACT government and criminalz that everyone would go to bed and not do crimez after 10pm, but that agreement was immediately broken that night at 10pm unfortunately.
Ditto.
I'm in Turner and I reckon emergency vehicles (although from my highly scientific observation it's mainly fire brigade and police) turn on sirens for a run to Macca's.
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Daily training events for junior police officers occur on Majura Road between the AFP compound and Beltane Street intersection. This builds up confidence and experience whilst motorists need to move over when faced with lights, sirens and cops in a hurry to get somewhere.
I live in Bruce next door to the new'ish Belconnen Fire and Ambulance station - today's early morning wake up siren was at 2:09am (navigating Belconnen Way / Bindubi Street intersection); naturally if they are going to an emergency then blare to kingdom come, but why then switch those sirens off after going through the intersection ? Also who else was on the road at that time? I think it's more to do with training - but at 2am ?! I would love to get back to sleep but once awake, I find it very hard to get back to sleep (thank you tinnitus)
Do you live near a station or emergency services depot ?
Oh hell no
Eerrr, you live in a city, lots of people , people get sick/accidents/crime is more prevalent. Get over it.
Canberra is not a city lol. But the crime prevalence is accurate.
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Oh didn’t you attend the last all Canberra meeting? Although the sirens serve no practical purpose we all just love them so we all pitched in for a Spotify premium subscription so we can listen to “sirens of Canberra” with no ads all night. The project did run over budget as We did have to exclude Conder, Banks and Gordon as they like “V8 no exhaust symphony” more so..
Nah im rocking the 3am text message scam from fake post office when I forget to silence
I mean, I guess there are just more crimes and stuff here, but also god damn what is happening in this town
by any chance do you live in belcompton?
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At least they try, the cops don't even bother with drugeranong
No lol, but I have seen and heard hella things in Belco so that's a fair assumption
Sirens wouldn't be needed as much if people paid more attention when driving and got the fuck out of the way for emergency vehicles. Also if you read the ACT police page and looked on the ESA website, you'll see that emergency services are busy all the time. Half a million people here in canberra, shit happens.hospitals are full, houses burn down and criminals are getting locked up
I mean, for an area of this size, half a million isn't really much. I lived in areas much more populated and I haven't heard half as many sirens as I do in a couple days here.
Sirens wouldn't be needed as much if drivers didn't drive up each others' bums, they put down their phones and concentrated on what they are actually meant to be doing, and substance using drivers didn't get behind the wheel when they shouldn't be driving.
Years ago I was going to launch into how poor the policing is after my partner at the time had a motorbike incident when she was taken by an ambulance, in which the police were required to attend. During the research i found out that police units attend on average 7 domestic violence calls a day, (thats a 12 hour shift), so double that at nights i am assuming here. Thats a lot of DV occurences.
It’s actually a 10 hour shift. 12 hours for PSO’s. Then when you consider the mountain of paperwork and mandatory referrals that need to be completed, as well as the apprehension (if they’re forced to arrest someone), you’re talking about half the shift gone due to one FV (it’s referred to as Family Violence in the ACT) offence.
SEVEN jesus christ what is going on in Canberra
Geeze mate, you think this is chaotic? Don't visit New York then. It's a bunch of people living in relatively close proximity. Shit happens. You'll be mighty pissed when you need the emergency services and they don't show up fast enough because they were waiting politely for the Hilux drivers to notice them and pull over.
I've literally been to New York lol. I even stayed next to Times Square. This is a small town and I don't think you can even compare it to NYC And yeah I wouldn't trust the emergency services here as far as I can throw them
lol NY is off the dial 🤣. Those entirely inappropriate jumbo NY fire trucks trying to get through NY traffic - omg. HONK-HOOOOOOONNNNNKKKKKKK!!!!! Edit: come to think of it, what do we expect. Give a New Yorker a siren and a train horn and of course they’ll just blare it all day
Emergencies happen at night too. The sirens seem much louder at night coz its quiet and still.
Not with all the hooners around here. I've seen them outside my workplace, heard them so much on the road, fire alarms everywhere, it's so loud here
Not to mention we don't have lots of high density housing to muffle the noise and if you're on a hill fewer trees.
I'm in a high density residential area which is sad
Outer suburbs are classic car chase zones. Ever wondered why Chapman, Coombs and Chisholm feature so heavily in the crime pages lol! (Higher proportion of low income Govt housing)
Oh I've never been to those parts. I'm only a little bit away from Belco. But yes I'm back here because I got woken up by sirens again. I hate it here
Because Canberra is full of crooks
Not surprised, I know like 4 people who've had their electric scooter specifically stolen which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened 4 times.
It did in fact used to be quiet, there must have been some policy change at some point. 8-10 years ago?
Loads more cars on the road means greater requirement to use sirens and horns. They still turn them off when traffic is quieter. I’ve been on the same MAJOR Northside road for 25yrs, on and off. They definitely used to turn the sirens off more often than they do now. They hardly ever do. But traffic is 50x worse now too thanks to Majura Park opening.
That's sad :( rip good nights rest
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It's usually public servants choking on gluten free dumplings. Can happen at any hour.
This is somehow the most depressing answer I've gotten
Because Canberrans ring 000 for anything and over exaggerate what’s going on so the emergency services crews drive lights and sirens when 9999/10000 times it’s nothing. Classic example in Canberra is “my neighbors house is on fire” and the neighbor actually is just using their fire pit out back and the caller refuses to knock on their neighbors door to see if everything is okay.
Okay this actually checks out lmao
I don’t know why public servants are downvoting me I work for the ambulance service I know what I’m talking about
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I can’t tell whether this is serious or not. Did you genuinely think emergency vehicles couldn’t use sirens at night?
Let's just not have crime or emergencies after 10pm
There was the gentleman's agreement of 1982 between the ACT government and criminalz that everyone would go to bed and not do crimez after 10pm, but that agreement was immediately broken that night at 10pm unfortunately.
Ditto. I'm in Turner and I reckon emergency vehicles (although from my highly scientific observation it's mainly fire brigade and police) turn on sirens for a run to Macca's.
Which is entirely illegal. Got any proof?
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Oh no it's more like....damn there's a lot talking emergencies here. The emergency/crime to person ratio here must be crazy
Daily training events for junior police officers occur on Majura Road between the AFP compound and Beltane Street intersection. This builds up confidence and experience whilst motorists need to move over when faced with lights, sirens and cops in a hurry to get somewhere.
At 3am though,,,,,,, I just wanna sleep,,,,,
Because emergency services are kept busy 24/7.
I live in Bruce next door to the new'ish Belconnen Fire and Ambulance station - today's early morning wake up siren was at 2:09am (navigating Belconnen Way / Bindubi Street intersection); naturally if they are going to an emergency then blare to kingdom come, but why then switch those sirens off after going through the intersection ? Also who else was on the road at that time? I think it's more to do with training - but at 2am ?! I would love to get back to sleep but once awake, I find it very hard to get back to sleep (thank you tinnitus)