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thing is DC...PT is and ought to be a Public Service provision. By all means run it properly but that often is at loggerheads with pennypinching and eyes only on the bottom line.

To have allowed two incompatible train designs loose on once homogeneous network was ridiculous. Had there been ONE authority overseeing this wed have saved millions...Remember.. the franchise didnt buy the trains..just ordered them WE paid for them. One lot the crappy french Xtraps cant even run safely at theposted speeds allowed. Brilliant !!

btw I have much respect for Ingénierie Française, but those xtraps were from the bargain basement

what other city allows more than one body to oversee one element of infrastructure ?? f'n stupidity to the x !!

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    Lots of power over here.

    Wait a sec just turning on my other air conditioner just because I can.

    That better, life great LOL

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    don't doubt it bb, and as i said i'm swayed towards the notion pt should be a ps utility

    i was just pointing out that that won't be the end of "issues", big or small. remember myki was a govt decision

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    don't doubt it bb, and as i said i'm swayed towards the notion pt should be a ps utility

    i was just pointing out that that won't be the end of "issues", big or small. remember myki was a govt decision

    Agreed, DC. The thing that swings it for me in favour of public ownership is that then the water or electricity (or whatever) provider has an incentive to decrease demand, rather than increase it, whereas private such providers tend to want to increase everything. If nothing else, the drought of a few years ago should have taught us that we can't take supply of these things for granted ...

    Other than that, it comes down to whoever has the best bananas ... :blink:

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    That is my understanding as well dc.

    Bring back the SEC I say.

    We have been on the downhill slide ever since Jeff sold it.

    The slide started once Sir John Monash (of WWI fame) stopped running it ... Once great, now struggling to do its job --- sounds a bit like a certain football club ... :)

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    don't doubt it bb, and as i said i'm swayed towards the notion pt should be a ps utility

    i was just pointing out that that won't be the end of "issues", big or small. remember myki was a govt decision

    The idea of subdividing the transit system under the notion of "competition " was the start of the rot. How can there be competition with different elements servicing different destinations etc. It was flawed as a concept and buggered in delivery. Yes that was a Govt decision... a bad one.

    Myki , also a Govt introduction. The authority, any authority that actual RAN a system didn't want it as was full of problems from the get go..it too a govt decision not an PT one, they just have to wear it. these things occurred as result of 'agendas' not genuine progress :(

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    PT whether utility run or privately operated is too painful to discuss

    when i think of all the wasted money and dumb decisions i could cry

    and to cap it off no-one pays anyway (well mostly)

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    little correction bbo, its "The Peoples Republic of Mornington Peninsula and Boganville"

    you know how i like to pay attention to detail

    Sounds like it is the Powerless Republic of Mornington Peninsula and Boganville today ... Blackout at Frankston Shopping Centre :wacko:

    Perhaps the North and West are needlessly worried? :blink:

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    and then we come back to utilities where less is more.

    you use less, you pay more

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    Last i heard Portsea and Sorrento were trying to distance themselves further by establishing a Principality !! ^_^

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    Ouch!

    You guys do have real issues over there it seems.

    I would have blamed BBO, Biff and Moonie but it appears this issue is bigger then them.

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    Just think last week this was me.

    Cays-Water-Girls-01.JPG

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    Just think last week this was me.

    Cays-Water-Girls-01.JPG

    which one ?

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    Ouch!

    You guys do have real issues over there it seems.

    I would have blamed BBO, Biff and Moonie but it appears this issue is bigger then them.

    Rationality of that sort never seems to stop Demonlanders (with the exception of this thread, generally )

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    You enjoy a bit of cross dressing [censored]?

    Now there is a remarkable thing, fl og was censored!

    You enjoy a bit of cross dressing [censored]?

    Now there is a remarkable thing, fl og was censored!

    Is FL OG the blonde or the burnt looking pommy with the big teeth.

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    Just think last week this was me.

    Cays-Water-Girls-01.JPG

    Aren't you the skinny dude hiding behind the palm tree holding a pair of binoculars? Right hand side, look closely.....

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    You enjoy a bit of cross dressing [censored]?

    Now there is a remarkable thing, fl og was censored!

    Silly Silly

    I would have been taking the picture on a tropical island in Madagascar.

    But you boys did get excited and would have been thinking how cool these ladies are.

    LOL

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    Any Irish virgins in that lot?

    Is that anything like a Greek Virgin?

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    Last i heard Portsea and Sorrento were trying to distance themselves further by establishing a Principality !! ^_^

    With Lindsay Fox as Prince for life and building a private swimming pool on crown land adjacent to the royal palace.

    All hail, Prince Lindsay!!!

    Come to think of it we could do with some hail right now.

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    Don't know how they can play tennis in the heat. I think it is just plain dangerous and the officials have failed the players.

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    Don't know how they can play tennis in the heat. I think it is just plain dangerous and the officials have failed the players.

    They will be Skiing next week if they live.

    In the meantime-let 'em fry.

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    Don't know how they can play tennis in the heat. I think it is just plain dangerous and the officials have failed the players.

    Yep.

    Where are work care?

    Edited by old dee

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