John McKenzie wrote:
> 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.
>
Dahvid is speshul , at least he keeps the bus windows clean
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