David Z wrote:
>
> "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?
in your mind and nowhere else. Do you actually have _any_ conception of
humour? It seems not. Not to worry, mummy still says you are special,
she must be right, and everyone else is wrong.
--
John McKenzie
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