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Please see here and feel free to contribute, Victoria's current Government made noises about our road situation and have since gone quiet.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Road-Saf ... 10?fref=ts
Thanks and please post those images, I am sure that we all have plenty of favourite shitty bits of roads.
Greg.

If you complain to much about road conditions the powers that be just reduce the speed limits on those roads. Speed limit signs are much cheaper than road repairs.

Easy fix to fix up roads More tax then the wingers will put up another facebook page

Drive to suit conditions.

Plus I refuse to use Facebook.

Magpie wrote:Drive to suit conditions.

Plus I refuse to use Facebook.

So we are both over 14 ?

IQ?

years old

Magpie,
The road that I was traveling on today is a stock route that services major sale yards between Huntly and Southern Central Victoria, grain carriers from the Central plains to the North and motorists to and from our main business centre, Bendigo. The conditions should be better!
Greg.

Poli's will always make plenty of right noises ... very few reasonable actions ...

I am appalled by the apathy displayed in the above responses.
Greg.
Every nation gets the government it deserves.
Joseph de Maistre. (1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821)

Political apathy is the luxury of an affluent society where the majority does not feel threatened and people's basic needs are met. Under such circumstances, apathy is understandable, predictable, and perhaps even rational. THOMAS MAGSTADT

It's not apathy as much as reality. Our politicians at all levels and of all persuasions are pathetic and deserve the disdain and mistrust with which they are regarded.

Libertarian.

/thread

Sure we would like better roads and we sorely need better public transport even more. We also need better drivers and politicians not just interested in the short term but it does not look like that's ever going to happen.

someone mentioned that our parents paid for better roads but I doubt if that will stand any close up scrutiny. The roads of the 1950's 60's and 70,s were either not existing or just plain appalling in Vic. If anyone looks at photos of say Melbourne roads in suburbia in the 50's they will not believe what would be regarded as bush tracks. Even those that lived with it would be astonished at the goat tracks that some goats drew the line at decades ago.

The public transport lobby argue that we spend too much on roads.

I agree most of us are apathetic but we rely on lobby groups and journos to do the stirring.

One of the major issues is that none of us want to pay higher taxes and little likelihood of apathy if the tax rate gets a hike.

The single best road experience from an efficient transport perspective that I regularly travel is the WestLink, which is private and you pay 4 bucks or whatever to use it.

Would pay again.