It is no surprise nor is it ‘news’ that Melbourne’s traffic
congestion is regarded as Australia’s worst, which it has been for many
decades, despite it being allegedly the most ‘livable’ city, amongst high
unemployment, high house prices, falsified (read high) crime figures and (boat
people) ethnic criminal ghetto pockets.
Governments are quick to blame (point the finger) at the
population for traffic congestion, therefore putting in laws together with
cutting lanes from major arterials into the city, that limit the movement by vehicular
transport.
When overseas consultants (town planners) are invited from
Germany, to offer solutions to the authorities about Melbourne’s worsening traffic
problems, when they offer a realistic solution (one the government does not
want to hear), they are quickly sent packing on the first plane back. If the
same policy applied to migrant criminals, then Australia would be a much safer
place to live in.
Only recently have the authorities admitted to failures in
town planning, Melbourne’s Docklands, and another project that involved turning
Asylums (for the insane) into learning institutions.
The town planners involved in the failed Docklands project should
not only be sacked from their positions, never to work in the industry again,
but be barely given the chance to clean the toilets in shopping malls with
their personal toothbrush.
Corpau has been recently made aware that in Melbourne, a
traffic jam on one of the city’s busiest arterial has been caused by the
government in peak hour traffic.
Most freeway work is done either off peak or at night, to
have the least effect on traffic flow.
A screen capture of a video shows how Melbourne’s busiest freeway,
the Monash freeway, was cut back from 3 lanes down to 1, whilst workers not
only worked at a deliberately slower pace than their normally slow pace, i.e. 1
worker digging, and 4 workers supervising, but they were also laughing at the
traffic congestion caused, as commuters drove past.
This traffic gridlock occupied many kilometres of road, with
commuters having to almost be standstill for over an hour.
This ‘news’ was curiously omitted by the government
sponsored corporate media, in order not to alert the masses of this government ‘conspiracy’.
The government sets up deals that are ‘Money for Mates’ scams
that involved fraudulently put forward tenders that favour the intended
recipient of the works contract.
Having the traffic flowing also contributes to less carbon
dioxide emissions, rather than having thousands of cars standing still idling
away, also creating hotter localised temperatures, therefore contributing to
Global Warming, a deed that the government allegedly is committed to reducing
and not increasing.
Another pathetically executed government project.