Local roads

By: AlanK (Registered ) on 17-10-2007 10:58

With all of the road congestion being suffered in and around Brisbane, when is one of the parties going to say that they WILL allocate ALL of the fuel excise to the funding of road works? We pay 38c of the cost of every litre of fuel as excise, [used to be 45c], and only get 2c returned for road works. 
Just think of it, 19 times the road funding we have now. To be actually spent on roads. I would not mind if some got sidetracked to the provision of additional public transport.  
How long has it been since an additional kilometre of passenger carrying rail track has been laid? 
For places like Redcliffe, the argument of right of way and it's cost is used for the delay. To that I say that the right of way already exists. It is called a road! What is wrong with an elevated passenger rail system? Brisbane had a vastly superior public transport system at the end of World War 2 than we have now. 
If some of this is too difficult for the politicians to work around, how about a subsidised public transport system out of some of our excise taxes we pay on fuel? 
Some of this may sound radical, but, let us get outside the square, and indulge in a little lateral thinking. What has happened over the last 50 years is not good enough. I am sick of pollies telling me that they know exactly what is best for me. They don't even know me from a bar of soap.

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