Buses, Trains and Automobiles

The same day I read this I also saw that yet another state in America is introducing seat belts on their school buses. Are our buses and bus drivers so good that they are above what all car enthusiasts know to be a fact: seat belts save lives.

If you are reading this in either Victoria or Queensland I am giving you yet another opportunity to laugh at us here in NSW. Anyone that has taken an L90 to Avalon will realise why I find this decision so mind-boggling.

Try taking the bends at The Spit standing when the bus driver is trying to make up a bit of time between the three sets of speed cameras from the top to the bottom of the run. While this may be fine for me -- I'm quite fit even with the amount of beer I drink -- the flow-on affect is potentially appalling. The 70 to 90 year olds will have even less of a reason to hand their licences in. Why give up driving to be forced to stand on a lurching bus?

Then again the bus service is marginally better than the train I am typing this blog on.

I am crawling around the Hawkesbury at what seems like 5km/h. The tracks can't take much more. A one 65- minute drive, garage to office car park, turns into anything up to two hours, fifteen minutes on a train.

At least though I can get my laptop open on the train. On a bus there isn't even the room without hitting the person in front in the back of the head. Not that it will matter for much longer, we'll all be standing.

Can our transport system be any more ludicrous? Can our state government find anyone more stupid than the last four transport ministers we have had?

Thank you to the people of Ryde for waking up and showing NSW Labour what we really think of their performance.
Bring on the election and let’s make Roads, Transport and enthusiast’s requirements a focus.

Along with Health, Education and everything else they have also stuffed.

Then again, Rees is supporting the V8s at Homebush, so he does show a small spark of enlightenment. And he did get rid of Costa and Sartor, two of the most arrogant examples of humanity we have ever been forced to listen to.