I recall quite clearly giving a donation of $15 to help prevent Skyrail ever happening, and I have the t-shirt to prove it.
At the same time, Sky-rail has proven itself to be one of the most wonderful quiet and real successes of mixing humans with wondrous landscape, with good benefit to both.
I am certain the Aquis development will have a far more positive, and far larger, longer, impact on the Cairns landscape and future than Skyrail could ever hope to achieve, and Aquis will do their work more effectively and more sympathetically than Skyrail.
Aquis is a good thing.
It still, I guess, won't stop my Chinese wife, a life long teacher, communicator, and language scholar, when riding her bicycle safely in the bicycle lane along the road at Earlville, being spat at for being Asian and for not getting off the road to suit various ute drivers...but sometime in the future, Cairns will accommodate the real world and thus accommodate the benefit of a better, stronger future for itself...and for its ute drivers also.
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