Comments on: No congestion tax without better public transport http://blogs.crikey.com.au/trevorcook/2008/11/01/congestion-tax/ Trevor Cook on public relations, social media and politics Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:16:29 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Trevor Cook http://blogs.crikey.com.au/trevorcook/2008/11/01/congestion-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-2680 Trevor Cook Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:35:25 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/trevorcook/?p=4820#comment-2680 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 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

]]> By: Kate Carruthers http://blogs.crikey.com.au/trevorcook/2008/11/01/congestion-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-2678 Kate Carruthers Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:13:31 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/trevorcook/?p=4820#comment-2678 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. 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.

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