As Nelson said in The Simpsons Episode
Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily: "I feel like punching myself!"
Why, you may ask? I'll tell you why. I feel like punching myself because I said that this budget was well though out and a great thing... yadda...yadda.
Has anyone stopped to think - or rather have
Rann and Foley stopped to think that extending trams to AAMI would be a waste of time because if Rann and Foley achieve their goal of having people catch the trams to AAMI, we're talking about 20-odd thousand people cramming into 300-odd seater trams. Now, for that alone, we're talking about approxiamtely 67 trams. Now when the trams FINALLY reach that dump that we call a 'stadium', where are the trams going to go? Are they going to magically teleport back to the city to pick up more people? Or wait! Perhaps we'll just have one so-called 'express' tram running back and forth from the city as to avaoid congestion on the tramlines.
I mean really, where does Rann expect to put all the trams? Max Basheer Reserve?
Now, that shared tram/train corridor is ridiculous. Why? Well on one hand we're going to have trains running express from Woodville or Port Adelaide to the city, yet on the same line, we're going to have trams stopping at every station. This, my friends is an accident waiting to happen.
So what have we done? We've eliminated stations along the line to reduce the risk of an accident... some 'transport revolution'!
Did Conlon accept this? No he didn't! How do I know?I was told by one of his advisers (no, it's not me) that his advisers gave him advice on the faults in this project, but HE DIDN'T LISTEN because Rann wanted him to present big things to the public so that he could get us all excited and happy with him as our Premier. Once the hype has died down, so will the scale of this budget's projects.
What about the Northern suburbs that are going to expand due to that Defence Boom, etc. and the NORTHERN EXPRESSWAY? Why? Oh,
why did we close that Penfield line? Had we kept it, we could have extended it North to cater for the suburbs that are going to spring up pretty soon. And what about the expanding Southern suburbs? Oh of course! We have land reserved for that kind of extension! Pity it won't get done within the next decade!
Oh! Here's something I read: The Government is going to
conduct a
study into a possible extension of the Tonsley Line to Flinders. How fortunate we are to have such a
brilliant Premier like Media Mike and his guard dog Furious Foley.
What we need is another Playford. But first, we need Rann and Foley out of the picture, because
they're the real enemies, not the rest of the Government (Well, Lomax-Smith is... Let's not go down that road...). When you think about it, ministers like Holloway are guys with guts, not Media Mike who sits there getting all the attention for the work that the other ministers do!
Listen Rann, unless you want your Government (that by the way has so much potential) to lose the next election, I suggest you take yourself, your Greens wife, your guard dog Foley and your maid Lomax-Smith out of there so that you can open up the doors for some real men to step in.
