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KraftyPg
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Having driven in all states of Australia other than NT I think Vic Roads ought to be embarrassed at the state of the roads in Victoria compared to those other states. I'm not talking about about suburban roads and feeder roads because while roads corporations in different states are no doubt responsible for different things in Vic our roads corporation is only responsible for highways and major roads, (local councils are responsible for the rest) and it's these roads that are a disgrace.
Having recently traveled across the Nullabor to Perth it's not hard to see when you cross the border into Victoria, the roads become lumpy, patchy and in some cases pot holed. When are Vic Roads going to learn that patching a patch in the road surface 4 times is not going to fix a road. In many cases the only way to fix it properly is to start from scratch, sure it will inconvenience roads users for a while as the road is fixed but its better than having to inconvenience them every day and then really annoy them when it's patched for the 15th time in a year.
The highway from Mildura to Bendigo is the roughest made roads I traveled in the entire trip to Perth and back and in some cases rivals the dirt roads I traveled. The constant up and down felt like driving over corrugated iron, then added to the great road surface every few ks you come upon patches that rose 3 inches higher than the road surface around it only to sink away the same 3 inches where a pot hole was forming and these are the holes that were recently fixed.
All states have bad roads and all states have roads corporations taking money for nothing which sucks but Vic Roads instead of taking all our licensing fees, rego fees and other fines you can get away with and sticking them into a cosy little slush fund for your end of year parties and over paid fat arsed executives start using it to make our roads at least closely resemble those in other states.
/end rant
Having recently traveled across the Nullabor to Perth it's not hard to see when you cross the border into Victoria, the roads become lumpy, patchy and in some cases pot holed. When are Vic Roads going to learn that patching a patch in the road surface 4 times is not going to fix a road. In many cases the only way to fix it properly is to start from scratch, sure it will inconvenience roads users for a while as the road is fixed but its better than having to inconvenience them every day and then really annoy them when it's patched for the 15th time in a year.
The highway from Mildura to Bendigo is the roughest made roads I traveled in the entire trip to Perth and back and in some cases rivals the dirt roads I traveled. The constant up and down felt like driving over corrugated iron, then added to the great road surface every few ks you come upon patches that rose 3 inches higher than the road surface around it only to sink away the same 3 inches where a pot hole was forming and these are the holes that were recently fixed.
All states have bad roads and all states have roads corporations taking money for nothing which sucks but Vic Roads instead of taking all our licensing fees, rego fees and other fines you can get away with and sticking them into a cosy little slush fund for your end of year parties and over paid fat arsed executives start using it to make our roads at least closely resemble those in other states.
/end rant