Snapper wrote:
>
> Here's a beauty.
>
> http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23661161-5000117,00.html
>
> It refers to the soon to be opened Eastlink tollway in Melbourne's east.
> The state budget was handed down the other night and as re****ted, the
> government expects revenue to rise based on patronage of this new road.
>
> It will have banks of fixed speed cameras, mobile police patrols and
> roadside car speed cameras.
>
> Now, as Mitchell pointed out, the government and police drum into us
that
> speed cameras aren't about revenue. Rather, they're about "saving
lives".
> Cameras are set up where there are known hot spots for crashes, and
> problematic excessive speeds.
>
> However, Eastlink, a brand new multilane, modern, state-of-the-art
divided
> carriageway, hasn't even opened.
>
> So, folks, it IS about revenue.
Alert the media.
The government budgets for it. No
> government will concede that it is about revenue raising. No government,
> to put their mouthes where their money is, will plough speeding fine
> revenue back into road safety programs. Rather, it goes into
consolidated
> revenue.
An unprecedented insight :)
> Speed cameras are an easy fix for a problem that they don't address -
but
> they think that we're conned into believing that it does address the
> problems.
nobody is conned. There's an analogy about political parties and ice
cream vendors at the beach, you want to be in the middle so everyone
will buy from you. If another guy sets up, on one edge, only those
closest buy from him and the majority still go to the central one, so
his best option is to setup next to the other bloke, and offer just very
slightly better value.
voila the 'choice' of the two party system.
--
John McKenzie
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