I'm doing a big lap of Australia.
We spent some time in and around Sydney recently and we were shocked, and appalled at the state of the roads.
After a few days in, we started counting potholes that were big enough to HAVE to avoid, and at over 40 on one road, gave up counting.
I honestly have never seen worse roads in my life.
Km after km of bumpy, holey, accidents waiting to happen.
The worst roads in the country. Totally shameful in a country like Australia.
So the question is, how did it come to this?
I know the last state leader, Gladys, was done for corruption.
I've followed friendly Geordies and the mafia like corruption of Barilaro is blatantly obvious.
Is it "leaders" being corrupt, or something other issue.
I'm not from NSW, so am interested to know.
Brisbane for example, was woefully lacking in infrastructure, so they had to play catch up on their roads, and over 20 or so years have caught up. The roads were never a death trap like Sydney's though.
Any thoughts?
More and more cars on the road. Increasing weights of those cars. More extreme weather (caused by consistent reliance on fossil fuels...such as to power cars). The solution: more and better public transport. More and better bike paths. More and better housing in places close to where people work, shop, and partake in leisure activities. And less reliance on fossil fuels, including moving what cars do remain (with emphasis on the need to reduce total number of cars significantly) to electric.
Whilst that is fine and it's a good solution, no other city in the country has roads as bad as Sydney, and I guess I just wanted to know why, or how, it ended up like that.