No money for Syd roads

[tiger101]

No money for Syd roads - report
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 » 10:10am


The NSW government has run out of money for roads and Sydney's existing network won't be upgraded until 2026, secret documents show.

Confidential files relating to Premier Kristina Keneally's transport blueprint indicate worsening gridlock over the next two decades, with public buses slowing to an average of 18km/h, The Daily Telegraph reports.

One consultant warned there was no money for the M5 project, and it was also revealed the M4 East project is at least 16 years away.

A proposal to include duplicating the M5 tunnel in the blueprint has been shelved; a senior transport official wrote in an email there was no money for the project.

Ms Keneally also vetoed any mention of a proposed upgrade to the F6 to Wollongong as the blueprint was about to go to press, the report says.

The secret emails and briefings were exposed after a call for papers by the Opposition in the Upper House.

[mightytiges]

Well you guys could borrow our freeway down here that ends in the middle of Collingwood plus our neglected railway system that has hardly changed since the 1920s and still uses track speeds set in the 1800s for steam engines .

[the_boy_jake]

The totally inept NSW government and the opposition that have been unable to shift them are reason enough to abolish State governments.

Up here in QLD it is the same story. Bligh seems to lurch from one disastrous handling of an issue to another, but the LNP opposition couldn't run a chook raffle.

The talent is too thin on the ground to have both.