Weaponxr Donating Members 624 Member For: 13y 11m 18d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 03/10/12 11:46 AM Share Posted 03/10/12 11:46 AM the saftey people certianly are concerned about saftey of people and lives, but I can just imagine the number crunchers sitting on their calulators crunching away at how much theyve lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never had any say Panda I <3 Floods Silver Donating Members 11,198 Member For: 13y 3m 29d Gender: Male Location: South West QLD Posted 03/10/12 11:50 AM Share Posted 03/10/12 11:50 AM Not just the safety people weapon..Putting the massive amount of drivers that use those tunnels into an unsafe situation is Begging for a multi-fatal accident to happen..Latest crash costings indicate that every fatal accident costs between 2.9 and 6.6 million per loss of life.. Closing those tunnels for a day.. Maybe 300 grand in tolls max.Personally I'd rather lose the 300grand. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossmang FREAKY Donating Members 12,427 Member For: 14y 11m 4d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 03/10/12 11:52 AM Share Posted 03/10/12 11:52 AM what else can I complain about?melbourne roadscost of parking in the citytoo much traffic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HER-XRT Donating Members 261 Member For: 13y 9m 21d Gender: Female Location: Werribee, Victoria Posted 03/10/12 11:55 AM Share Posted 03/10/12 11:55 AM what else can I complain about?melbourne roadscost of parking in the citytoo much trafficHaving just moved back to Melbourne after living in Sydney for 2 years, I can only say that the worst Melbourne roads are better than 99% of Sydney's better roads - at least our lanes are wide enough for a decent sized car!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never had any say Panda I <3 Floods Silver Donating Members 11,198 Member For: 13y 3m 29d Gender: Male Location: South West QLD Posted 03/10/12 11:56 AM Share Posted 03/10/12 11:56 AM Okay then here goesmelbourne roadsYou know you probably won't pay enough tax in your life to fix up 1km of road to a standard you consider acceptable in Melbourne.cost of parking in the cityUse public transport.too much trafficMove out of the friggin city if it's that bad.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossmang FREAKY Donating Members 12,427 Member For: 14y 11m 4d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 03/10/12 11:57 AM Share Posted 03/10/12 11:57 AM (edited) Okay then here goesYou know you probably won't pay enough tax in your life to fix up 1km of road to a standard you consider acceptable in Melbourne.Use public transport.Move out of the friggin city if it's that bad..I just want them to fix the roads, not just throw a blob of tar in a hole, then fark off to the next one.cant use transport as I drive into the city to service air con filtering systemsyes I hate the cityHaving just moved back to Melbourne after living in Sydney for 2 years, I can only say that the worst Melbourne roads are better than 99% of Sydney's better roads - at least our lanes are wide enough for a decent sized car!!!do you have custom plates?what brings you back here?single? Edited 03/10/12 12:00 PM by Ford Freak 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never had any say Panda I <3 Floods Silver Donating Members 11,198 Member For: 13y 3m 29d Gender: Male Location: South West QLD Posted 03/10/12 12:17 PM Share Posted 03/10/12 12:17 PM Are you gonna pay to fix the roads freaky?Repairs are necessary (and yes annoying) because 'fixing' or upgrading roads has such a massive run on effect very few people understand.This is a photo of one of 3 similar job sites I've been on this week.. This job site alone will use 420m3 of 56mPa concrete.. That doesn't include the precast concrete culverts, piers or spanning slabs.. Total cost of construction of these 3 flood ways is tipped to be 4.6 million..That's construction..On top of that we have engineering and project management fees, property resumptions for road use, property rental for side tracks, property resumption due to afflux in a Q20 event (basically means with a certain storm the culverts can't handle the flow so water will back up into someone's house so we had to buy the house), worksite insurances, inspections, weekend patrols and a bunch of other sh*t I can't be bothered listing.. Total project cost $7million.. And this is seriously out in the middle of no and where.Another job I work on in an urban environment. Simple upgrade from 2 to 4 lanes and a couple sets of traffic lights..$8 million just to relocate electricity, gas, water, telecomms and drainage/storm water services before we even start pricing asphalt pavements for road widening..People always say to me 'if they were smart they would've planned for the future' but no one knows the the future holds and road networks grow off the bones of the original roads and road corridors developed in the early 1900's.If ya dislike our roads (which I'm not sh*tting are actually some of the best in the world considering Australia is one of the toughest environments for road building) try India for a couple months then come back to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossmang FREAKY Donating Members 12,427 Member For: 14y 11m 4d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 03/10/12 12:28 PM Share Posted 03/10/12 12:28 PM I know whats involved, and the costs and roll on affect and all that jazz, been there done construction sh*t.but seriously I pay 1400 bucks a year for two cars to use these roads.its not the new roads that's the problem. its the lake of maintenance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HER-XRT Donating Members 261 Member For: 13y 9m 21d Gender: Female Location: Werribee, Victoria Posted 03/10/12 12:32 PM Share Posted 03/10/12 12:32 PM I just want them to fix the roads, not just throw a blob of tar in a hole, then fark off to the next one.cant use transport as I drive into the city to service air con filtering systemsyes I hate the citydo you have custom plates?what brings you back here?single?Yes I do have custom platesFamily and work brought me back to Melbourneand yes I am single...haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeze_dk I am dissatisfied with my current employment situation Donating Members 8,610 Member For: 18y 2m 1d Gender: Male Posted 03/10/12 12:39 PM Share Posted 03/10/12 12:39 PM Cop^^Female cop outfit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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