Luddie, my ol’ alter-ego…. you’re a sick puppy!

All you do is sit on the couch, guzzle beer and eat potato chips, and watch CSI and all that sort of inanity!

Get a life you ol slacker.

Get your backside onto OLO and become a contributor like me, for the good of our quality of life, society and environment….. and stop being such a negative old fart!

Huuuwaaa….Ludwig, ol buddy ol mate, you are right…. I am a negative slack ol twat.

Hey, congrats on 12 months of lobbying, on all sorts of things, but most particularly on the most important issues of all – sustainability and population stabilisation. Wonderful effort.

I notice that you have picked up a lot of support on many threads pertaining to this sort of environmental message, the sort of support that you just weren’t getting before you came onto this forum, despite your many years of this sort of lobbying. That’s really good to see.

Great effort too on road safety issues.

Cheers buddy

See another line of discussion on road rules and the like, started by that inimitable genius Ludwigius;

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=231#4186

And this makes 1000 posts on OLO!

Well done Luddie!
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Now for goodness sake, go get a life!!

Alright, I went and tried to get a life, but it didn’t work… sooo I’m bayaaack on the ‘Putting the brakes on the road toll’ thread to talk to myself for another year…or three……..or ten !! (:>()

This week the north Queensland Mayors were in the news whingeing about the state of the Bruce Highway in light of road closures during the recent big wet.

Well I say that they (or was it just Townsville Mayor Tony Mooney with minimal support?) should get their priorities straight.

The Bruce Hwy is pretty good as main roads go, thankyou very much. And it doesn’t get cut very often or for very long. It is vastly better than it used to be, after some pretty massive expenditure of taxpayers’ money and many years of constant hold-ups due to roadworks.

What they should be calling for is a vastly improved policing regime of all things related to road safety. This road is bloody dangerous with frequent fatal accidents, which are NOT due to any shortcomings in the road, but predominantly to drivers just doing stupid things…. and taking themselves out and taking innocent people with them.

The policing regime is only slightly better than completely hopeless, with a blind eye being turned to tailgating, dangerous overtaking and other aggressive and impatient behaviour, and just about everything else except speeding.

We could go a long way towards improving this situation with one simple change - if all police cars were unmarked, so that in the eyes of offenders, any reasonably new car on the road could potentially be a police vehicle, a huge increase in law abidance would ensue.

Comeon you economic-growth-at-all-costs Mayors of the north. How about not just sitting back and accepting the disgusting ongoing road carnage in our part of the world, and actively doing something about it.

The same applies across the country.

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