Fines Victoria crisis deepens, leaving massive hole in state budget

[eb2fairmont]

Well I’m on holidays in the land of the free and been cruising around a bit driving.

Some observations

1. No cameras
2. No one does the speed limit in roadworks areas - that’s set at 55 mph (90) and people don’t lift for it. At all. Had trucks right up my Jacksie honking.
3. Speed limits are really posted +5-10 mph
4. Cops are a constant presence on the highways but only really after people going really slow or pulling 80+. If the traffic is flowing well they don’t care.

In many way I think what we do is better (esp roadworks) but TBH were being treated as a pack of fools. We have a zero harm rhetoric applied to justify more and more controls to resolve a problem.

And if you look at safety performance in large companies administrative controls only does so much. Rest is driver attitude (training) and engineering controls (car capability and roads)

We’re being fed mushroom fertiliser and suck it up from government in a most gutless way.