A good example of a “dead figure of speech” – no-one actually knows what a linch-pin is any more, so no-one knows how to spell it.

quite contrary to your minority view. Today’s telegraph servey shows that 55% of (55%) of people who is planning to vote Labor thinks they have done a poor job and do not deserve to be re-elected.

There is strong view in the community that labor had run this state very poorly and spending on services and infrastructure has been non existent. Add that to the 45% who plans to vote Liberal, and you have almost 75% of the people of the state who thinks that labor should not be re-elected. However Debnam is so bad that the liberals is just unelectable. If only Brogdan was slightly less stupid.

I forgot to mention the lynch pin of the road system the M7 which has finished the bypass of Sydney and greatly reduced the congestion of the west. It as finished after I left.

Dovif – I accept your views of public infrastructure as a common view but I think the election will show that more people now have greater and better access to state services as a result of the last 12 years. Not many of these people take part in political web sites.

That is called public transprt, there are also public schooling, public hospital and police force. These are where our taxes goes toward

In the last 12 years, the budget of NSW has almost doubled, yet little had been done in our transport system, school, hospital is at its worst, police are understaffed, where has all the money gone?

That is the big problem with this labor govenment, while I think the liberals are idiots and I won’t be voting for Debman, I think this labor government has probably been the worst dovernment at handling resources of any government in Australia. They are really just incompetant

In my opinion Politicians like projects that can be completed in one parliamentary term, so they can display their achievements before the next election. Unfortunately, new railway lines usually take longer than one parliamentary term to build. For example, the Epping to Chatswood railway project commenced in 2001 and isn’t due for completion until 2008.
For that reason, both sides of politics have been reluctant to expand the metropolitan rail network.
Here’s are list of new lines that have opened in the last 30 years (in reverse chronological order).
Epping to Chatswood – Carr/Labor (still under construction)
Cumberland line – Carr/Labor (this is a short section that allows direct services between Campbelltown and Blacktown)
Airport Line – Fahey/Liberal (opened when Carr was premier)
East Hills to Glenfield – Wran/Unsworth/Labor
Eastern Suburbs Line – Askin/Liberal (opened in 1979 when Wran was Premier)
In addition to these, the Wran government expanded the outer/inter urban network by electrifying existing lines to Lithgow, Port Kembla, Newcastle and from Riverstone to Richmond.

Motorways/Freeways

M2 – tollway instigated by Liberal Govt (Greiner/Fahey) & completed after Carr became Premier

M4 was known as the F4 Freeway prior to Greiner becoming premier. It consisted of 2 sections: Concord to Mays Hill and Propect to Jamisontown (Mulgoa Rd). Greiner Govt build the missing section between Mays Hill and Propect and put a Toll on the existing road at Silverwater.

F5 from Casula (Hume Hwy) to Moorebank (Heathcoate Rd) and Prestons to Campbelltown (and beyond) were constructed by Wran/Unsworth Governments. Greiner Govt renamed it M5 and built Tollway from Moorebank (Heathcoate Rd) to Beverly Hills (King Georges Rd).
M5 section from Casula (Hume Hwy) to Prestons and M5 East freeway from Beverly Hills (King Georges Rd) to Airport were constructed by Carr Government. The sections constructed by Carr and Greiner Govts are about equal in length.

I’m sure that is all pretty boring to psephologists!!!

Ted you’re such an ignorant sh*t. It must be your half baked private (but largely public funded but unaudited) school education that has left you incoherent and lacking any grammatical skills.

why doesnt someone do something about the big GST rout in NSW? Can’t a leader simply stand up and say they’ll bring all the premiers and PM to the table demanding a deal where every dollar spent in a state stays in the state…. otherwise i reckon someone should make nsw pull out of the gst arrangement and enact the equivalent 10%gst but as a state tax… that way the system would be the same but nsw would keep all the money it lost in tax….