Man, this is a huge f**k up. I saw the Transport Minister say the pass is down for min 3 months.
The f**k up is not that they didn’t do the tunnel - I get that they need to prioritise North South over West and then we have Nancy. The f**k up is the engineers not seeing the condition of the old retaining wall (my term) earlier so they could deal with the problem BEFORE it became a safety issue.
OK scrap the tunnel because the cost vs traffic business case doesn’t stack up maybe, but plan B is ensure that the pass is good for another 25 or 50 years FFS.
It could be even longer eventually, because this will need to be a quick fix just to get the road open again. A closure of 3 months is just not acceptable. It's the major access to the west. The Bells Line of Rd and the Darling Causeway just don't cut the mustard for access across the mountains.
Both political parties have been responsible for this failure for decades.
There was a solution, somewhat partly funded at first, however, funds would have been found to see it completed.
If anything, this is now serious enough to be pushing for federal funds to actually get the tunnel built.
This is prime Austraya doing nothing initially, and then everything costing more eventually.




Cos the people who seem most vocal about Grace or Randa, seem to love Pauline.


