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Queensland Government promises to build yet another (probably tolled) fucking car tunnel. (cdn.masto.host)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/brisbane@aussie.zone
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Queensland Government promises to build yet another (probably tolled) fucking car tunnel. @brisbane

Fuck this makes me **so** angry. We KNOW this doesn't work. You want to solve congestion, road diet the existing roads. Build good bike infrastructure. Build good public transport. How does this happen with a single off-the-cuff announcement when *months* of back-and-forth debate over public transport network with the NWTC went *nowhere*.

Facebook post by Bart Mellish MP reading "BREAKING We are proceeding with the Gympie Road Tunnel"
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It will use tons of public sector resources and attention regardless if it's PPP or a state asset.

Just look at the recent Logan/Gateway Motorway upgrade (Logan Enhancement Project) which Transurban financed for $512M. There was least $30M of government spending directly afterwards on an adjacent road, and likely more than $100M to come.

No doubt a $7b tunnel will similarly result in $100Ms or even billions in adjacent road spending.

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