Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009 at 06:58
It keeps the western australians where they belong :)......
Seriously, we didnt get much of a choice.
The goverments over here are broke despite ALL the excessive tax's they have dreamed up, so they get a private company to build the road and then allow them to put a toll on it. The upshot is some pretty good roads in a fairly short amount of time, the down side is "tolls" seemingly forever.
I didnt like the e tag system when it first came out, I thought it was a level of embuggarence that went beyond the pale.
Why have I changed my mind? I was sick at home one morning watching the morning advertising shows (news) when they had a traffic fly around of
Sydney,
Melbourne and
Brisbane,
Sydney had about 1.5 km of traffic banked up for the toll plazas to the bridge,
Brisbane had a 1 km line up to the
Gateway bridge,
Melbourne had free flowing traffic everywhere except the south eastern car
park.
The NSW government are shifty Pr***s they funnelled ALL traffic in inner
sydney throught the Tunnel, which IMO is a good enough reason for a coup.
I have no idea where all the rego money, stamp duties and a million other sundry charges motorists are paying go, all I know is I pay and pay and pay, this system seems to remain in place regardless who is in power.
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