Won't somebody think of the children!!

[mike-s]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/eto ... 86896.html

Oh man, this just reeks, if they get the teeth of private enterprise into any more public f*ing roads im just going to take my numberplate off, paint the gpx black and ghostride it the hell everywhere.

[mrmina]

just ghost ride it for the fun of it anway

just remember, its not illegal unless u get caught.

[Jonno]

Oh man, this just reeks, if they get the teeth of private enterprise into any more public f*ing roads im just going to take my numberplate off, paint the gpx black and ghostride it the hell everywhere.

ditto

just ghost ride it for the fun of it anyway

Just remember, its not illegal unless u get caught.

Seriously thinking about for this and many other reasons...

Back on topic a bit, I though taxes on fuel, rego, and whatever else they say they charge for and is meant to be put into roads is meant to be put into roads ffs, just like diesel fuel and gas was meant to be cheaper alternative.

Tolls are just a way of the State Governments to hide behind a private tollbooth in fact they are the real fair evaders IMO. The Fed's have allocated billions for this road and the State Government seems to have mismanaged it and /or used it for some other worthy cause like health……yeah right..

The State Governments is blaming the feds and so on..blah blah I hate thinking the way State politics is managed today, just another word for screwing the people with little in return.

[I-K]

I though taxes on fuel, rego, and whatever else they say they charge for and is meant to be put into roads is meant to be put into roads ffs,

Far from it. That all goes into general revenue, and has done for a long time yet. The only part of it I can recall going directly into roads is the 3x3 levy in NSW.

The Fed's have allocated billions for this road [Pacific Highway] and the State Government seems to have mismanaged it and /or used it for some other worthy cause like health……yeah right...

"Allocated" is correct. What they've done is said to the NSW government, "We'll put up $x billion *if* you put up $y billion", in the full knowledge that the only way they can come up with those $y billion is to go into debt for it. If the NSW government goes for it, the Feds get to bash them over the head with how fiscally irresponsible they are. If they don't, they get to accuse them of putting money ahead of people's lives. Win-win.

I hate thinking the way State politics is managed today, just another word for screwing the people with little in return.

...and when would it ever have been significantly different?

[Jonno]

Very true, there was a time well before mine long before they lost all reasoning and memory how to govern and why they were elected in the first place..... Oh well that’s almost a fairytale now..

Enough already it is xmas day and I am getting quite an appetite