One might be forgiven for thinking that our state government is an incompetent pack of whinging little girls.
Apparently three days in a row of temperatures over 43° constitutes a “natural disaster”.
Sorry Mr. Batchelor, but no. It doesn’t.
This kind of thing should be expected and our infrastructure should be able to cope with it.
If a few hot days is all it takes to completely trash our public transport and power delivery systems, then that’s a serious indictment of our government’s dire track record in public maintenance.
News flash for those “in charge”:
This is not the first time this has happened. And it won’t be the last.
In fact, where the hell do you people get off being surprised by this?
The climate is changing. You might have read about it. It’s been in a couple of papers.
All utilities planning should be allowing for this sort of thing to happen every two or three years. Because a decade or two down the track, it will be.
We’re well past the time we can sit on our hands and start thinking it’s all going to get back to normal soon.
So Mr. Batchelor, Ms. Kosky and Mr. Brumby: get it the hell together.
1 comments:
I see in the paper that Adelaide has similar trains to Melbourne (made by the same builder) the main differance being that they are Diesel powered. Apparently their maintenance must be better as they had very few problems althogh Adelaide is usually a bit hotter than Melbourne.
The problem seems to be doing everything "just in time" No reserves for when extra stress hits.
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