The slow-down scam

SHORTLY BEFORE Christmas, I again had the experience of traversing the Bruce Highway twice from the Burdekin Bridge south. It is pretty obvious that the public sector has found a forest of money trees somewhere. There were roadworks galore.

On the face of it, any improvement in infrastructure has to be a good thing and the Bruce Highway is in need of many more passing lanes. Yes, there’s obviously an effort to provide more passing lanes but there’s also a considerable amount of window dressing. Beyond needing more overtaking opportunities, I consider it to be a reasonable thoroughfare.

I’m still astounded at the numbers of derelict vehicles