State and Federal Government Stupditiy

Ok now you all know that I have been driving most of the day today and will again tomorrow.  The amount of roadworks going on at the moment is just amazing.  But, why are they going on at all?

Well to answer that question we have to look at how National Highways are funded in this country.  The Bruce Highway or the A1 is a federal funded main road.  Now the A1 around most the country is a high traffic well made road, with the exception of North Queensland.  You see there is this issue in this country that nothing gets funded properly north of the Gympie.  Most the money made in the north is spent down south and we get little back.  Hence the current issue with the Highway falling to pieces its never been built properly to begin with.

So we get this endless and frustrating situation where they are tearing up 20 to 30 kms of road at a time to fix it.  The problem is the bits they have just fixed are falling apart already and so the wheel goes around at around.  I dont blame the road crews but I do blame those who set the standard of black top to be laid and the foundations to the roads.  They are quite obviously not to a high enough standard to cope with the environment or the heavy road traffic.

Now add to this the fact that most of the road it is impossible to overtake on and the overtaking lanes that are in place are in very poor condition and you end up with a very very mad Horse and the 20 other cars he was travelling with.  At one point I wanted to run the slow overloaded truck off the road so we could all get past.  But there was no reason to because round the next corner we were all at a full stop for 15 mins while they stuffed around on the side of the road cleaning out drains.. Go figure..

Now I know the work has to be done now as the road to be honest is dangerous and it does kill a lot of people each year.  But I want them to build it properly to do it once not 30 times and to give us more places to overtake slow traffic.  This would lower the agro of those travelling and stop some of the stupid suicidal overtaking attempts  I have seen today.

 At one point the tail back behind the slow truck was 50 cars, and we were traveling nearly 60kms hr slower than the road speed limit at some places even slower.  I had one guy nearly run up my arse when we suddenly lost 30Kms/hr going around a corner.  Its just damn dangerous, I would have felt safer going inland.

Ok my gripe over, I know it wont change anything, but its out there on the web, so maybe we might actually get something done about this garbage... Ohh and one more thing dropping the speed limit by 10kms hour because its a high incident area that is 30kms long.  Thats the biggest load of BS I have ever heard, stop fucking around and fund the duplication instead of filling your retirement funds.. Ugg

The Horse

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