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Ratepayers spend thousands on billboards featuring Lord Mayor and councillors (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The billboards, which come less than four months before the next council election, feature images of Mr Schrinner, along with LNP councillors Tracy Davis, Adam Allan, and Danita Parry.

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The billboards declare that Mr Schrinner and the councillors are "backing a tunnel to ease congestion" and urges residents to have their say.

But the proposed tunnel they are referring to is a potential tollway being pursued by the state Labor government, which would run underground on Brisbane's northside, linking Kedron to Carseldine.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ya'll have no idea how much roads cost and it shows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Well, they estimate 100k cars a day.

If we do say $5 per car, that's half a million per day, or about $200 million a year.

I don't know what that road will cost, but I wonder when it would be payed off?

And of course, once paid off, that toll is not going away. At that point on, they'll take some for maintenance, and private profit the rest.