NSW Roads

At least elephants and donkeys can step over pot holes in India!!! ;)

Michael,
The tax money gets chewed up in the bureaucracy. Some public servants work extremely hard and others are employed just to make up numbers and job titles.

Those ones that make up the numbers then produce more paperwork to justify their jobs and so more are employed chewing up money.

Senior Director general of operations, Director general of operations, assistant to the Director general of operations, Operations manager, advisor to the operations manager, legislation interpreter, legal advisor, Purchasing officer, Operations facilitator, Secretary , maintenance facilitator, safety officer, a finally two workers watching each others backs, cause the rest of them are watching and waiting to dob them in.

Have a good one

DW,
My vote for the worst sealed road is the Woodenbong to Killarney section of Mt Lindesay Road which was once called a highway. The easy way to stop maintaining a highway is to down grade it to a road.

Have a good one

After a 2 year, 55,000 km trip around the highways and byways of Australia...I'd rate some of Sydney's roads as awful. I have a brother who lives in a large etate near Liverpool...and the roads into the area are very run down, potholes, broken away edges. However in the estate roading is excellent. I think the most consistently bad highway we struck was the Bruce. Despite doing the Oodnadatta track and exploring many out back places....the only place we broke an offroad caravan spring was on the Bruce Highway. Yes, there was lot of evidence of new sections of Highway being constructed...but I reckon there was a Mack truck at the bottom of the pothole we struck!!

I live in Sydney at the moment and can understand why there are so many 4wd/awd vehicles around. You need one to negotiate the pot holes. After this weekends rain, we will all be trying to miss them. But again I have travelled some of NSW rural road over the past forty years, in work and play. The one thing I do not understand, is, why do we have to have three tiers of government look at a pot hole before it is filled in. Federal Government collects taxes and passes some onto State Government. State Government passes some on to Local Councils, who are responsible for filling in the pot hole. Tax paid to Federal Government from myself. By the time it gets passed down the line and everyone takes their administration cost out. My pot hole get a shovel full of ash felt dropped into it by a Council worker and then we are expected to run over it a compact it, 50% get strewn across the road and washed down the drain. Our Council then applies for a grant to fix it up again. I am thrilled to get out into the back of beyond and enjoy what nature provides for free.

Don't know what the hierarchy is like in NSW Steve but here in Wait Awhile local governments are responsible for all local, suburban and city roads. The State is responsible for all highways, freeways, A roads and B roads which is where the confusion and buck passing begins. Some of those roads are the responsibility of Main Roads (freeways and highways for example) whereas the A roads and B roads come under the ownership of the state planning commission. Between the two of them they bicker about jurisdiction and responsibility A LOT.