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 goe...