Potential closure of access roads

[Thornbill]

Tasmania’s Parks and Wildlife Service is being urged to “take the actions necessary, including road closures or erecting barriers, to manage risk and improve safety”.

http://www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/call-to-shut-rundown-roads/news-story/de870148e9ee3fa53b34f7c862ae582f

[aloftas]

Hell, back in the day, one would ring up a cartage contractor and put some gravel on these roads.
SHAME

I don't reckon our Govt Lib or Lab or the elusive Greens, could insert a sharp stick, into warm custard.


We are about to face the biggest socio economic upheaval since the great depression; there is no water for hydro power, the lathering of the lobby groups, and the need for govt services to waste budgets to get replenished next year has seen us go from a time of economic stability and fiscal responsibility, to knee jerk ad hoc decision making made by 2nd and 3rd generation career politicians.

[scrub boy]

spare a thought. Poor old parks had 1000's of km of roads dropped onto their laps, many of which were only ever built for logging. there is no question some proportion will need to be closed and rehab'ed. public money on roads will need to be prioritised on those that really matter, better to be agitated around those that provide access to walking tracks but there remains a question about the justification of maintaining large sections of remote and expensive roads only so a handful of poeple can use a walking track. it might be a better outcome for remote areas if vehicle access was further away as it was prior to industrial logging, (ie the picton, florentine etc.) thereby reducing the obvious environmental impacts that currently occur there.

[Thornbill]

Poor old parks had 1000's of km of roads dropped onto their laps, many of which were only ever built for logging.

No judgement of Parks here. They are totally under funded to be expected to maintain these roads. Its an interesting paradox we face a bushwalkers here though. Many of the roads that we use to access trail heads are logging roads. We often drive through areas that we would rather not see logged in the first place, yet without the logging, access to many of the places that we want to walk would be significantly more difficult. In a weird way, they have facilitated our hobby and enjoyment of nature.

[MrWalker]

A lot of those roads might no longer be needed for forestry but they could be essential for fire trails. We just had a series of fires in areas that were hard to reach by road vehicles and aerial water-bombing has some limitations. Before we start rehabilitating all those roads we should check if they might be useful in the next fire.

[aloftas]

Funny. Back in the day when I was at school, I learnt a third world economy was unable to sustain infrastructure, unable to maintain a food base, unable to provide itself with energy and unable to articulate forward vision.

How odd.

[aloftas]

spare a thought. Poor old parks had 1000's of km of roads dropped onto their laps, many of which were only ever built for logging. there is no question some proportion will need to be closed and rehab'ed. public money on roads will need to be prioritised on those that really matter, better to be agitated around those that provide access to walking tracks but there remains a question about the justification of maintaining large sections of remote and expensive roads only so a handful of poeple can use a walking track. it might be a better outcome for remote areas if vehicle access was further away as it was prior to industrial logging, (ie the picton, florentine etc.) thereby reducing the obvious environmental impacts that currently occur there.

Well, lets just see here shall we?

What if, the old PWD (Public Works Department) was reinstated, and peeps didn't have an exorbitant Lamboghini enabling monopoly, perhaps road maintenance would not be so expensive.
I am friends with a chap who works in civil construction; he tells me of the rorts, the time wasting, the cost overruns and cosy deals.
Please.