Editorials

Road Safety

UNDERGROUND SHARKS

You should pay for what you get.

When a tunnel company charges you full retail to drive across the city using their tunnel, shouldn't they give you a discount when the speed is reduced, or the number of lanes available?

Three lanes at 80kph = full retail.

Two lanes at 40 kph = a fair percentage less.
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REALISTIC ROAD SIGNS

Show it like it is

On one of Melbourne's private toll roads, there is an ever-tightening 270 degree corner, before traffic crosses the Bolte Bridge, northbound.

Shouldn’t the road's owners be expected to place a road sign indicating an upcoming corner that is commensurate with reality, rather than a standard, off the shelf, 'road curves' sign?

Two trucks have come to grief. Do their owners' lawyers have a case?
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