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Friday March 12, 2010

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  • Shez on Halal certification It doesn't say it, but those are the guidelines required for something to be labelled Halal or "permissible". :-) more
  • angry on Halal certification "Shez", for your edification the word "halal" is NOT mentioned in the Bible ANYWHERE! FAIL! more
  • angry on Halal certification "Shez"... Given your rabid and fanatical support for this, please remember that you are free to emmigrate to a muslim ... more
  • angry on Flying Foxes and little girls This SO TYPICAL of the Leftist ideology of anna BLIER'S government! She and her government are on the nose and well and ... more
  • Ray on Halal certification Halal signifies that a product or object etc is permissible as per Islamic law. Therefore bananas,apples etc are edible ... more
  • JohnE on Racists in our midst I amazed to see indians taking over all the 'menial' work (no disrespect to that type of work intended). Every trolley boy ... more
  • JohnE on Flying Foxes and little girls Absolutely disgusting. Simply not good enough. If the law is NOT acceptable, we the people, have the power to change it. I ... more
  • Shez on Flying Foxes and little girls I wouldn't wish bad on anyone, but maybe if one of these judges that give out these so called punishments are victims of a ... more
  • Shez on Halal certification Halal in the Bible... FROM THE BIBLE: Deuteronomy 14:3-10. Do not eat any detestable thing. These are the animals you may ... more
  • David T on Tony Abbott does a Turnbull Tony, we need a strong opposition not a fickle oppostion. Please don't give the government any more ammunition as this will ... more
  • Albert on Flying Foxes and little girls These laws prove once again that the environmental movement is not about taking action to protect human life and future ... more
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  • Lynne on Flying Foxes and little girls The only thing in Queensland that is better protected than these disease riddled flying vermin are bureaucrats. When are ... more
  • LEONARD on Separation of Powers The Doctrine of the Separation of Powers has become simply a joke. It purpose is to separate the Legislature, the Executive ... more
  • Anne Scott on Halal certification You are missing the point, Shez. We, Australian taxpayers, begrudge paying Mr El-Mouelhy a levy on products he has managed ... more
  • Wobblyone on Halal certification Hey Angry... Shez is either Muslim or one of the idiot do-gooders that can't tell which way its bum is pointed. And Shez... ... more
  • Shez on Halal certification G'day angry. How are you today? Yes I am Australian, and bloody proud of it. I'm off to have some Cadbury's Dairy Milk. If ... more

This Traffic!

Posted by: Michael Smith | 29 June, 2009 - 2:22 PM
traffic

I am so far beyond believing things that most politicians say.

How good an example did Stephen Robertson make last week.   The government does a lousy job in managing water infrastructure – so they set up a board, SEQ Water – the same old problems happen – but Robertson gets the chance to say the board faces the sack if it doesn’t lift its game.

Isn’t that great if you’re Stephen Robertson?   What do we have ministers for?   What does he do?   Walk around with a knowing look saying “the board has to do much better.”

Well they did it again on the weekend.   We all know traffic’s congested.   Until this year’s budget we used to get figures that proved just how badly the government was performing.   The budget papers used to show a “congestion indicator”.

The system measured traffic speed on a certain number of roads in peak times.

10 years ago the average speed was 28 km/h slower than the posted speed limit during morning peak hours.

Today it’s 38 km/h slower.   That’s 10 km/h slower than 10 years ago.   It’s been steadily building, getting slower every year.   It’s slowed by 6 km/h in just the past 2 years.   The data show that just 40% of the state’s urban roads provide an acceptable standard of service according to the government’s own measures.

But because the picture those data paint is so bad, the government is dropping the measurements.   It will stop collecting and publishing the data.

There are 23 separate performance measures tucked away in the budget.  Craig Johnstone of the Courier Mail has done a great job in exposing this.   Next to each of the 23 measures is a note saying “this measure has been reviewed and it is considered that the measure should be either replaced with a more meaningful measure or discontinued.-View story here

The Minister Craig Wallace put out a statement about this.   “The Minister is committed to transparency in departmental reporting and that measures reported on are meaningful and effective.”  He said that he had no current replacement for the measures they’ve dropped, but the likely replacement would use “real-time data” and would be more relevant.

Well let’s help him out!   What are your real-time measures of congestion?   How do you feel about Brisbane’s roads?    How long does your trip take now?   Do you have a measure of the congestion on the roads?   I know I used to be able to leave Noosa at 6AM and get someone onto an 8.30 flight at Brisbane airport.   I wouldn’t dare risk that now with the Gateway.   What are you congestion measures?  

Anna Bligh is very keen to tell us that things are improving.   What do you have to tell Anna?

Blog comments Your Say

  • The Australian birthrate is 1.7. So the growth is not coming from us. It is coming from immigration. Everytime you get grid-locked in traffic, know that it is to help an elite make heaps of money from high immigration. Suggestion: put money from immigration fueled infrastructure into encouraging Australians to have more children.

    tammy winfeld Tuesday 7 July, 2009 - 10:47 PM

  • Smithy, it takes me about an hour to go 60 kilometres (using the Logan and Gateway motorways). If I head towards the city using main roads (and traffic lights) it takes me around 90 minutes to go 50 kilometres. Congestion ... what congestion .... it's appaling. There is very little public transport from where I live and what does exist is not suitable for those who work.

    Christine Wednesday 1 July, 2009 - 2:09 PM

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