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Originally Posted by Blue Roo
Ok. How about building better roads.
If you compare the Road Infrastructure in Australia with other countries like in Europe, The United Kingdom, America or even Canada. Australia's roads would has to be one of the worst in the world.
Have a look at Australia's National Highway (Highway 1) or any other major highway / road system and see how bad it really is. Especially the Bruce Highway in Queensland. Ask any Truckie. They will tell you.
Australia's Road Design and Traffic Management is out-dated and needs to be brought into the 21st Century.
I am amazed why State and Federal Governments are not serious enough in building a Super Highway Network (like the Autobahn in Germany) for traveling at High Speeds in state as well as Nation wide. This country has the room and space for this type of road infrastructure. The only problem with building this type of infrastructure would be cost and who would foot the bill.
If the State and Federal Governments use the Fuel Tax as it is should do. That is, using all the Fuel Tax on building and maintaining the road system. And not using or spending the Fuel Tax on other areas. We would and could have a better road system.
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The problem is that insignificant amount of people would be using the road system, to justify maintaining and building it, given Australia's humongous size. Germany is smaller than most of Australia's States and territories and the USA has more than 10x the number of people and hence number of cars getting around. The numbers don't stack up, unless we pay exorbitant tolls to use the Australia Autobahn if it ever did exist.