The SMH carries a story today that the disappointing Nathan Rees, having dropped the ball on rail transport, is now going to add an extra burden on peak hour car commuters:
THE Premier has declared he wants cashless tolls on all of Sydney’s major roads so motorists pay varying fees at different times of the day – an effective congestion tax to cut peak-hour traffic.
Without a simultaneous, and dramatic, improvement in public transport, this is simply another nasty little tax from the State Government masquerading as a transport solution.
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It is a completely outrageous suggestion to impose yet another a tax on car drivers when Sydney provides no viable alternatives to the car for travelling long distances. The trains don’t work and the buses don’t stop because they are full. There are large slabs of Sydney that don’t have any public transport at all. The NSW government is criminally stupid as well as criminally insane regarding transport. We should be able to sue those politicians responsible for this mess. Those fat cats are getting a pension for life and we’re getting the rough end of the pineapple.
Gosh Kate you’re even more pissed off about the state of public transport in this city then me. I was on a metro 10 bus last monday, stinking hot day, and the driver stopped the bus because the aircon wasn’t working, brand new bus, but he stopped at an intersection not a bus stop where we could have got on the next bus because he said he has to stop where he is when the depot calls, it’s just madness and passengers first? no way