Queensland Public Transport Costs

Well January 1^st 2012 has arrived together with another 15% rise in Public Transport costs in SE Queensland. Anna Bligh’s Government has increased these costs 32.25% in 2 years, giving the travelling public more incentive to travel by car thus reducing the patronage of the Public Transport system, under the ruse of paying for “infrastructure upgrades”. Have you never heard of depreciation which is supposedly used for providing for future expenditure, I guess not?

The people who use the transport system are paying now for total mismanagement of public funds by this Government; they are wasteful, full of spin (another adaptation of the word lies). Many of these people are in a captured market group, working in the city, consequently have to travel by these means due to lack of parking in the city and near surrounds, consequently have no other alternative but to use public transport. Pensioners and others on fixed incomes will now find it more difficult to find the money to travel to their appointments, or to just enjoy a day out.

I noticed that Brisbane has now one of the highest costs for public transport in THE WORLD (Courier Mail - Most expensive transport in the world), and we are the smart state? There is a business term which relates to the law of diminishing returns, basically the more you raise prices the less people buy, consequently in the end you end up with the most expensive service which no one uses and they are well in the way to achieving this state. Less people will use it, except those who need it most and who call least afford it.

My opinion of this Government is that it has to go, it is wasteful, full of spin (Lies) and incompetent. Traveston Dam, Queensland Health, are just a couple of items of incompetence that come to mind.  Your arrogant, unrealistic and have lost respect of this writer!