Re: Who said there's no variety these days?

[David Langley <del@ancc.com.au>]

Yuri J Sos/Melbourne wrote:

> Within 3 days of FV forking over $136 million for VLF,  the Vic Gov
> announced expenditure of $536 MILLION to upgrade roads and freeways to
> "improve the competitiveness of trucks in regional haulage".
> Expenditure on rail was a new platform at Flinders Street station (ca.
> $10 million).
>
> Bridges will be upgraded by the Fed Gov to enable "road friendly"
> trucks to get heavier, but they baulk on spending the $$ on rail
> improvements that every commission and enquiry and committee has told
> them to.

Surely this does not surprise you Yuri. It has been a well known fact that the
Victorian govt is in the road transport business and was a little reticent to
admit this whilst it actually owned a rival transport firm. Now that they don't
then their true colours are exposed. The two faced attitude of this govt was
amazing but now they can put those bad old days behind them and appear to be
honest when it comes to showing just which transport they prefer. And it's
because it supports an enormous collection of industries that life off the road
business - petrol, tyres, vehicle manufacture etc etc etc. Which in turn will
give the appearance of reducing the unemployment but will in fact just turn our
environment into one of air and road pollution, unfit for human habitation.

And into the bargain, their Federal mates are no better.

David Langley.