Joining the dots
On Tuesday the ACT government announced the opening of “stage one” of the GDE, that’s the 2.3 km section between the Barton Highway and Ginnindera Drive. The total cost of the 9km GDE is projected to be $116.05 million, which puts the price for those 2.3 km at approximately $29.6 million.
On Wednesday the ACT government announced the closure of 23 schools, estimated to effect 1367 students, and projected to save the government $21.3 million over four years.
Perhaps we do need the road, perhaps we don’t need those schools, but we sure as hell can’t have both.
Posted by mike on Thursday December 14th, 2006, tagged with politics