Flexi-time beats Melbourne's gridlock in peak hour

MELBURNIANS have been urged to embrace flexible working hours by VicRoads in a bid to fix the congestion crippling our roads.

As motorists battle the worst week of the year for traffic, VicRoads said it was doing all it could to reduce snarls, including providing information about travel conditions and giving priority to certain transport types.

heraldsun.com.au 19 Dec 2012

Melbourne has long been regarded as Australia's worst city for traffic jams, and long touted as one of the world's worst.

Despite this on any given day the authorities or various 'independent' sources claim that Melbourne is the world's most livable city. Another lie perpetuated by the authorities.

Traffic jams now can span 30 kilometres (18.5 miles) during peak hour on major arterials, with queues up to 5 km long in the suburbs.

Authorities have (deliberately) failed to provide an infrastructure that grows with population growth.

The populous are now blamed and punished for creating traffic jams, whereas the fault clearly lies with the authoritie's lack of infrastructure planning and expansion due to population growth.

It has been estimated that standstill traffic consumes an approximate $5 billion in fuel, a welcome bonus for the petrochemical giants but a deep cut into the wallet of the average citizen.

There is no policy to alleviate traffic congestion, even though town planning engineers were brought out from Germany to assess the traffic problems in Melbourne. Once their suggestion were given, they were shipped back to Germany on the first flight home, as the answers were not what the authorities wanted to hear.

Information obtained by corpau from within the industry indicates that the policy is to work in the rears and not for future development and catering for the growing population.

Australia is truly a backwards country when it comes to infrastructure projects.

The population is now told to adjust their lifestyle as a result of government failure.