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Power lines to Stapylton Campground? 11-May-2012 At 5:52:47 PM JamesMc
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On 11/05/2012 dalai wrote
>>
>>Hmm free as in you pay to register your car and half of the cost of petrol
>>you use is tax...is that what you mean by free?
>
>Registration mostly goes to TAC and the rest to the cost of managing the
>registration system. Fuel tax goes into consolidated revenue, not directly
>to roads.

If I remember right, the last full year's total Australia wide figures I saw were $15.6 billion revenue from road related taxes (petrol excise, reg etc) and $15.8 billion expenditure on roads. So drivers pretty much pay to use the roads. According to a report by the Victorian auditor General a couple of months ago, public transport fares covered 30% of the cost of operating the public transport system. (And none of the investment cost.)

A cynic might suggest that the fact that public transport is such a money loser is why gov't doesn't try very hard to expand it.

Dr Stone might have another cynical view.

JamesMc

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