"John McKenzie" <jmac_melbourne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:4823D6E2.1D38@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.
And where does the part about you being sandwiched in between the two of
them come into the story?
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