City links
Posted April 29th, 2006 in Roads
At the risk of creating an echo chamber of links I’d like to point readers to Senator Andrew Bartlett’s post on the plans for two tunnels in Brisbane.
More pollution, greater traffic, bigger debt for the Council – it’s amazing what politicians can get away with just by promising a few minutes off the trip in the car. And of course by the time the promise is shown to be so much hot (and polluted and very expensive) air, the politician will be long retired, and future generations will be stuck carrying the can.
Brisbane blogger Fabian Dal Santo has posted some complimentary commentary on this.
The idea isn’t to encourage our relentless consumption of oil and fuel, it’s to make a concerted effort to get us off the intravenous drip of petrol.
And on the subject of toll roads, the 100% anonymous, inimatable, and absolutely necessary Mr Lefty has set up a blog devoted to the politics of Melbourne’s City Link/East Link arterial roads.
Yes, the party that’s campaigning on “no tolls” is the party which gave us the only currently existing toll road in the state. And the one which gave us a far worse deal than the Bracks mob were able to manage just a few years later.
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