Re: [Melb, Aust] More public transport upgrades

[David McLoughlin <davemcl@AXE*THISiprolink.co.nz>]

Michael Kurkowski wrote:
> 
> "Upgrades aim to transport bus and train travel"
> http://www.theage.com.au/news/20000322/A22418-2000Mar21.html

> Things are looking up...

Do you think so?

Read the fine print of the article:

> The Government will spend $10million over four years
> on transport services across Melbourne. The project
> is part of Linking Victoria, a $1.5billion scheme to
> improve the state's roads, ports and public transport
> system

$10 million for public transport out of $1.5 BILLION on roads and maybe
ports does not look a great improvement to me.  It's not even 1 per cent
of the road budget.

The $800,000 for a bus stop at Hopper's Crossing eulogised by the
article consumes almost a tenth of the allocation for public transport.

It must be a new record though, an $800,000 bus stop.

Here where I live, the council just sticks a $20 metal "bus stop" sign
on a handy power pole.

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand