Clair Martin has introduced a NEW TAX & not addressed the issues that are the real concern & is making us feel guilty enough to accept a NEW TAX!
The truth is that ALL ROADS WERE UNLIMITED UNLESS OTHERWISE SIGNED, that includes even the most dangerous dirt tracks through the scrub were open slather!
Now the rural default is 60kph, thats right 60kph ,that must be the lowest in the country where as previously they were "unrestricted", so deaths on those tracks now wont be counted towards the toll, making the open road speed limit look more effective.
Clair Martin & Harold Scrubby obviously have never driven on a corrugated road before, as 60kph will probably cause your vehicle to vibrate vital components from your car, causing your vehicle to veer into a table drain, crash & then you become a statistic in a 60k area, instead of a 130k zone, therefore increasing a statistical need for more speed cameras in built up areas. !AARRGGHH! Clair Martin wouldn't know this, she doesn't drive that far, she spends our tax $$$ on flights when ever she goes out to claim credit for another
mine being started here.
Governments are spending millions of our tax dollars blaming us with "worst toll ever" campaigns, when in fact the road toll has been declining since 1970. How about advertising "never drive at night", "know your vehicle" & "know your personal limit" campaigns. Empower the public, don't oppress our intelligence.
Territory highways were built for speed, Now the highways are built for fatigue! straight as an arrow for hundreds of kilometers with an almost perfect surface, so good you can tell the difference near the boarder, but now its not // open anymore the road works crews have been pulled out since before Christmas a
shop keeper in bees creek told me. This looks like a cocktail for disaster.
FFS, we didn't even have a traffic branch until now, so to me, that goes to show how
well the general public can do without "supervision". without contradiction,
Darwin has some cowboy drivers out there who wont indicate, or belt up & who run red lights, thats been taken care of now theres a "new traffic". I see them booking drivers everyday that otherwise would have got away scott-free.
The most dangerous place to drive in the NT is between
Darwin & Palmerston, its can be like driving in the V8 Supercars at 7:45am & im sure those speed cameras must crank out plenty of revenue, especially when those fines were so cheap, they were cheap enough to risk! 15k only cost me $60 :)
Australia having its own "Autobahn" like other forward thinking countries was pretty cool, an Aussie icon, Stuart Highway, how Aussie is that? i'm sure Stuart would be proud as hell to know that from his incredible effort we Australians could travel at comfortable speeds & explore this beautiful territory. I bet Stuart would have been able to tell a story or two about fatigue.
Good news on the fight for having the NT Speed Limit repealed at
keepntlimitfree.org