But what if the accountability is ‘here’s my money now fark off’ 
Sorry, I guess that’s up to the individual, I can’t answer that nor can anyone.
That is a form of pure accountability no doubt, which is why a scaled deterrent will be effective
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Clearly don’t get or don’t want to get what I am trying to say.
So I won’t bother with the conversation any longer. It doesn’t affect my life in anyway in any case. I can afford the fines but also stay within speed limits and don’t get them anyway. I can’t say I’ve found this to be much of a problem in my 26 years of driving.
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Why are you getting angry with me, i just tried to answer the question? Sorry if I wasn’t answering it to your satisfaction.
The only way he should be depicted. Evil.
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Labor today loses its first Newspoll since Scomo got booted in 2022. 51-49 LNP leading. Polls have tightened the last 6-9 months.
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So that’s another 36 (?) polls till Albo gets rolled, and more than that again before Government changes?
You need glasses, then.
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Mismanagement of debt. Cost blow outs, Funding the wrong types of infrastructure. Spending vast amounts of money on level crossing removal when they are neither unsafe, nor congested in many cases. Not maintaining roads adequately, insufficient funding for housing and healthcare.
Trying to grow Melbourne rather than regional centres making Melbourne too large, too dense and crowded.
I understand you favour the socialist type of government and thats OK. Melbourne is a very socialist city, Labor has been the natural party here for decades, but if you really believe they can keep on running the state like this, you need to realise that people can opt to live in other states and migrate out of Victoria if they perceive that Melbourne standard of living is not as good as elsewhere. Brisbane for instance is attracting many people. Building giant 18 storey apartment buildings around suburban stations and hoping people will come may not work out.
Nope. Too much chin.
Removal of level crossings was an election promise way back. Which are the ones that didn’t reduce congestion and air pollution, cut time of travel?
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Albo can call an election any time he and his party decide. If they have good reason to expect the economy will be worse next May, they might decide to go early
Any government is only as good or bad as the opposition allows. With no viable alternative they are free to do as they want and appears it will stay that way for some time
If you are talking about the feds, I would never vote for them again until they accept that climate change is real and get with the program, and promise to close all coal mines and stop exporting steaming coal.
As the the state of Victoria, the Liberal party does not have enough members at the moment to get in at the next election but there will be a protest vote and they might have a chance again in 2030. It depends on how Victoria is managed over the next 6 years so all the rusted on labor voters here can luxuriate in the Labor regime for at least 6 years, whether you like it or not.
I’m talking about Victoria. The opposition are a rabble and are barely surviving so no chance of challenging anytime soon so Labor has a free ticket to do as they please without fear of being overthrown
If the Vic LNP can not be a complete ■■■■■■■■■■■ over the next two years, I suspect they’ll form government at the next state election.
The Vic ALP is cooked. The problem is the Vic LNP are world leaders at not only shooting themselves in the foot but also setting fire to the first aid kit when they do.
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Level crossings were removed on the Dandenong line. This was justified because of the volume of traffic from both sides.
Level crossings were removed on the Frankston line south of Cheltenham. This was not justified There are no houses in Port Philip Bay. With the extremely low traffic volumes propensity for accidents on the said area of the Frankston line is correspondingly low. Sheer farking waste of taxpayers funds .
There is also the issue of frequency of trains, for example if the line is catering to outer suburbs, new housing estates.
As to no houses, are the roads major traffic routes?
Westgate tunnnel and Melbourne metro both open in 2025, so a year of operation before the election in 2026. That’s alot of people in the west generally, Geelong and the Sunbury, Cranbourne and pakenham lines to be impressed.
With a big build add blitz, They will sneak back in with a reduced majority imo.
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