03-01-2016, 09:54 AM
(03-01-2016, 09:45 AM)DJC link Wrote:One of the problems with our transport infrastructure is that it's not integrated.
A rail line should have been built down the middle of the Eastern Freeway and another should have gone in on the Tullamarine. It's a scandal that we don't have a train servicing Melbourne Airport'
Of course, the radial nature of our rail system needs to be addressed with suburban interchanges getting people to their destinations without going through the CBD. Getting heavy vehicles off the road wouldn't go astray but it all costs money and Aussie politicians are terrified of raising taxes, or even not reducing current taxes.
Melbourne is not the only city to suffer traffic chaos when something goes wrong. I was heading north out of Paris a couple of years ago and there was a truck fire on the inbound lane. The traffic was banked up for 21kms and there were hundreds of vehicles still heading towards the jam.
You're right many other cities experience traffic issues but I don't know of any that piss away $1billion.
Most of the traffic that goes through royal park could have gone underground.
Just simply wasteful and arrogant.
Obviously from people who find it very easy to spend someone else's money