IT is amazing it has taken so long for the residents of the capital cities to realise eventually the continuous expansion of capital cities will bring major city traffic to a standstill.
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Unfortunately, politicians have presided over the disintegration of the regional and rural transport system throughout Australia.
Roads and railways have been neglected and fallen into disrepair.
Regional and rural railways and local roads and lanes have been closed, and road and rail traffic has been re-directed through the capital cities, ensuring people wishing to travel from regional cities and rural areas have been forced to spend many hours and travel hundreds of miles through capital and major cities to reach destinations.
The railway line between Albury-Wodonga and Melbourne is a symbol of the incompetence of planners, engineers and operators engaged in updating that line, and has become unreliable, unworkable and untrafficable, even though it forms part of the Melbourne-Sydney line.
Buses have replaced trains, off and on, over the past 10 years for the train trip from Seymour to Albury-Wodonga and public transport is almost non-existent in regional and rural areas.
For 10 years attempts to fix a railway line which was completed in the 1900s, and which lasted for more than 100 years, have failed.
Politicians, managers and bureaucrats who claim to represent citizens of Australia, have a duty to upgrade and improve regional roads and railways or get out.
— BILL BUCKPITT,
Wodonga