The little obstacles of life are the irritants to remind testy voters of the many ways government at all levels just doesn’t work for them.
A drive back from the Brisbane Valley at the weekend was such a reminder for this testy voter, contemplating just 200 days and a week or so until a state election at which voters appear to be waiting with baseball bats.
Roadworks are flavour of the month on the main highway between Fernvale and the main road at Ipswich. Or, at least, signs proclaiming roadworks are flavour of the month. Not much sign, however, of the works or the workers doing them.
On my count, the speed limit dropped from 100km/h to 60km/h at least five times, mainly for no obvious reason – there was no obstruction to the road, no workers at risk from speeding motorists. Just signs erected and then left untended with no purpose other than to needlessly slow the trip home.
There’s a pattern to this across south-east Queensland.
Our busiest highway, the M1 between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, always has lengthy zones slowed to 80km/h because of roadworks but, again, little evidence of........