The recently announced Northconnex road tunnel for Sydney is to cost $3 billion. By my calculation, something like $600 for every car in NSW. Hailed as a private enterprise project, it will never the less, attract a government subsidy of about $800 million. So much for industry standing on its own feet. The tunnel is to have a projected life of thirty years. No mention is made in any of the documents about declining oil supplies, these will be substantially depleted before the end of the next decade.
This mindless development is only necessary because of Australia’s out of control immigration policy. No more local cars, therefore imported cars will be cheaper, more migrants, more cars. A dog chasing its tail.
Everald, I think you would do better to confine your lobbying efforts to refurbishment and expansion of our rail infrastructure. As the end of the age of oil approaches, it’s the only one that makes sense

We are spending much money on road works and the planning documents do
not even consider whether the cost of fuel by the time they are
finished will make them unviable. One would have thought that the
experience of the Cross City,the lane Cove tunnel, and the two
Brisbane bankruptcies would have made realistic traffic estimations
a number one priority.
The proposal documents never mention the war, err petrol costs.
They make inflated traffic estimates just ensure that the project goes ahead.
Start reading here and you will find all about how stupid our politicians have been, it is in three parts;

http://crudeoilpeak.info/

For the future electrified railways are essential and all road projects should be abandoned.

Everald Compton,

It is offensive to use a metaphor of a person who has "no money" and also has "no teeth" to descriptively express his opinion on how lack of proper infrastructure and economic planning and sense results in our Nation having "NO TEETH" [i.e. no 'bite' or no ability for economy to get an good outcome].

In other words - "no teeth, no money" equals "NO HOPE".

But this is offensive to me and to anyone out there who has, often through no fault of their own but instead as a result of being raised in uneducated and problematic cultural and family environments (e.g. Indigenous Australians) may find themselves at age 25 already physically showing CLEAR SIGNS that he/she has come from lowest of lowest of classes as who else has missing teeth and some discoloured and rotten teeth by age 20-30?

Essentially the offense is that author Everald Compton casually uses a metaphor he knows will be descriptive and also that to most if not all of his readers, he knows the metaphor will not be something that might have actually touched reality in their lives BUT instead is merely an image of "some other distant thing".

Yet there are REALLY people in our very suburbs in this nation who have "no teeth, no money, NO HOPE" where the last of these 3 is what results usually from "no teeth, no money".

I realize many people may be wondering why I am so concerned here.

Imagine this and you might get an answer to that:

Had the author used some metaphor like "Jews in Nazi Germany - No chance = Australian business potential in Asian environments" . . .

OR . . . "As Much chance of Spotting Investment Possibilities in Australia as there is of Spotting a Christian or Jew in Mecca, Suadi Arabia" . . .

Essentially it is RUDE to openly state as FACT that a person without teeth and money has NO HOPE unless they also intend of making attempt to fix such inequality, which NEVER is the case.