We can and should be allowed to drive faster on our freeways and motorways; but don’t think governments will let it happen overnight.

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/1198065

We can and should be allowed to drive faster on our freeways and motorways; but don’t think governments will let it happen overnight.

  • Faceman🇦🇺English
    4•1 year ago

    We’ve been trying to build a widespread high speed rail network for half a bloody century, the problem is after the first few costing reports and plans are drawn up and agreed upon, the government gets kicked out and the plans scrapped for budget savings, then a few years pass and a new plan is started from scratch.

    • Deceptichum
      5•1 year ago

      The problem is they genuinely don’t want to. There’s no real political will to achieve the goal and some pollies will give lip service to the idea and never truly bother to get it started.

      • Faceman🇦🇺English
        3•1 year ago

        And yet over the decades, we’ve spent hundreds of millions on “feasibility studies” that amount to nothing.

        Funilly enough the people who received that money all happened to be buddies with the politicians. On both sides even.