So public transport users have supported the system by paying for it, now it will be free for motorists? Why? Because they will be suffering?
It’s cool that there is extra capacity available, but why isn’t it being used to reduce the current overcrowding on peak services?
It’s amusing that Labor politicians have this privileged way of thinking.
“The schmucks who use it every day can eat a bag of dicks, but those unaccustomed to public transport will require a softer cushion to ease their pain.”
@kentparkstreet1 and just like pausing mutual obligation during covid, when this fuel crisis us over, we'll go back to charging for "public" transport.
If there's one thing all #australia can come together on, it's that "beating poor people with sticks" is the national sport. We bloody love that shit. Better still if they're disabled and/or brown.
Asked my work for an Opal (aka Myki, Oyster etc) card instead of a Fuel Card. Their response? Laughter and incomprehension. Why would I, a rich able-bodied white person, want to beat MYSELF with STICKS? Madness, it's #UnAustralian .
We could double unemployment benefit when nice middle class people needed it.
I get that from a Tory government. I guess we have Tory Labor government now.
Kent Parkstreet
Amo a Sam amat