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Paul Pottinger
If the RTA’s tenure was linked to performance, it’d be queuing at Centrelink. If the RTA was a horse, it’d be en route to the cat food factory.
Of all the relieved sighs that filled the horribly hot night air that state election night almost 12 months ago, by far the loudest came from those who sit atop the RTA’s Tower of Babel in Centennial Plaza.
The sight of Peter Debnam’s budgie smugglers and the ominous sound of happily clapping religious zealots had seen NSW return the most intellectually and morally bankrupt government since the Rum Corps.
Morris Minor, Costa-living and the whole crew of terminal underachievers were handed another 48 months – the first 12 of which has seen them act about as responsibly and accountably as that emaciated brat in the stupid sunglasses would if tossed a six pack of alcoholic lemonade and the keys to a Ferrari.
So too has the other bunch who were reprieved that night; the disorganization popularly known as the Road Tolls Authority.
We can’t know how a government led by Debnam and the Nat’s Andrew Stoner would have been, expect that we can be certain they wouldn’t have been any more feckless.
Or if they would have fulfilled their promise to break up the RTA like the rotten hulk it is and re-create separate agencies for licensing and roads.
The RTA’s approach to its dual responsibilities has been even-handed. It’s failed to fulfill both roles with equal incompetence.
Pray consider:
• The Lane Cove Tunnel
• The expenditure of more than half its budget on advertising and consultants
* The hiring of consultants because (They had a sign on their door which read “consultants” and must have some sort of idea, right?)
• The funneling of Epping Rd (Is that enough traffic now, Mr Tunnel Operator?)
• The fresh-air and wide open lanes of the M5
• The lack of flashing lights at 40km/h school zones (Well, you can’t fine drivers if they slow down)
• The speed cameras with the accuracy of Steve Bucknor (Don’t worry, they’ll never take it to court. Oh bugger …)
• The $2 million campaign to encourage obscene gestures (Sure the pinkie wiggler was kicked to death, but we’re reducing the road toll)
• The refusal to teach drivers how to drive (Teaching them to use brakes just encouraged them to speed)
• The banning of the safest cars in the world to P-Platers
• The road safety policy maker whose kept his job for 28 years despite the continuingly disproportionate numbers of dead P-Platers
• The elderly gentleman who was failed by one RTA instructor for failing to look over his shoulder, then failed by another for looking over his shoulder too frequently.
There’s more. As I’m sure you can add.
Alright, we’ve got another 36 months of the Iemmagumment. Longer if the alternative proves as unpalatable next time as it was last year.
But wouldn’t it be worth voting for anyone willing to cancel the RTA’s license?
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