The Victorian state government will probably press on with its
manic decision to spend 6 to 8 BILLION dollars on a tunnel designed to
link existing freeways/tollways with the aim of easing currently
near-intolerable peak hour traffic congestion. This despite abundant
declarations by experts warning that experience shows building
more
urban road infrastructure simply encourages many more people to abandon
public transport for car travel. Now, a leaked 'secret' study
commissioned by the government
tends to support 'in spades', the contentention of opponents that
existing traffic congestion is likely to 'balloon' substantially when
the project 'comes on-line'!
Fittingly... the project has been
titled 'The missing link' by glib copywriters handling government
advertising of their 'wonderful' contribution to the already billed
'marvelous Melbourne'. Some people apparently never quite made it out of
the morass along the path of human evolution?
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