Re: New Government for Vic
Reply #24 –
For people in the south and east - linking up east link to the ring-road
makes _way_ more sense than turning the eastern
into another tolled car park as commuters pay to wait in a tunnel at a slow moving off-ramp.
You can imagine how the regional towns were so happy about loosing tafes, hospitals and driving on crumbling roads so the money can be spent on an eastern suburbs indulgence which does not stack up.
It won't move trucks off the road because it doesn't go through to the west.
I won't help commuters because it dumps commuters at the same clogged exits.
eastern will connect with city link..to suggest its a tolled cark par is misleading..
mate .. blame the unions for trucks in the west...they wanted an expanded docks and bay dredging for more trucks..
btw - the cfmeu will put the heat on andrews to approve the east west link, because the cfemu interests demand work for its members..
The CFMEU wouldnt know a good thing if it was staring them in the face. They are by "so far" the dumbest, backward thinking organisation I've ever come across. They have completely lost their members. The construction industry is full of subcontractors getting paid a pittance of what they once were. So long as the CFMEU get their union dues, that's all they care about. Carpenters/ plasterers are hit the hardest.
The plumbers and sparkies are still going strong. They have the adv. of being a licensed trade so they arnt so easy to replace with blow ins!!
FWIW, I've been in the construction industry for nearly20 years and I've never seen a bikie once. The officials can be boistrous and colorful with their language sure, but being run by bikies and so on seems a bit of a stretch in my view.
Not having a political bone in my body or much financial nous either ........can someone please answer me this......
If the Gov'n were to take out a $1B loan to build the east/west link and toll it, would the fact that the tolls are going back into our coffers rather than o/s investment change peoples views on the project?? I'm of the understanding that citilink was paid off in under 4 years yet the consortium who paid for its construction has the rights to toll it for 30 odd years!!!!!
Kennet made the state squillions during his time in office but he sold the gas and fuel , board of works and our electricity board. Wouldnt tolling road projects where the money eventually come back to the state be one way of ensuring a steady revenue for our states future??
Wow, who new I could be so heavy !!
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