LAST week I went for a walk along Hunter Street to see how much the city had been revitalised since I was last there. The trams have been running for five years, and the railway has been gone for nearly ten.
The most noticeable change was the west end. I actually saw people on the footpath this time. Last time I saw no-one. I noticed more people around Civic, although this may have been because of the university campus. The most people I saw were in the Hunter Street mall. However, while it was pleasing to see people in Hunter Street again, what I saw was a far cry from what it was like in the 1960s, '70s and even the early '80s when the city was allegedly dying.
