Comments on: A public–private partnership for pothole repairs https://wongm.com/2024/09/western-roads-upgrade-vicroads-public-private-partnership-victoria/ Marcus Wong. Gunzel. Engineering geek. History nerd. Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:14:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2024/09/western-roads-upgrade-vicroads-public-private-partnership-victoria/#comment-950656 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:14:35 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=17090#comment-950656 In reply to indigohex3.

If the people making decisions are only looking at it from a purely financial perspective, then that’s what you get.

]]> By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2024/09/western-roads-upgrade-vicroads-public-private-partnership-victoria/#comment-950655 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:07:56 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=17090#comment-950655 In reply to Damian Zito.

Thanks.

]]> By: Damian Zito https://wongm.com/2024/09/western-roads-upgrade-vicroads-public-private-partnership-victoria/#comment-949710 Tue, 10 Sep 2024 04:06:52 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=17090#comment-949710 Good investigative journalism

]]> By: indigohex3 https://wongm.com/2024/09/western-roads-upgrade-vicroads-public-private-partnership-victoria/#comment-949696 Tue, 10 Sep 2024 02:07:44 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=17090#comment-949696 I don’t know why governments (both Labor and Liberal) are resorting to accepting the cheapest bid for anything. Didn’t anyone learn anything from giving Transdev the metropolitian bus franchise in which we had grafitti on buses that were not cleaned up, and least we say about the state of buses, which has been discussed several times on this blog when Transdev operated the buses.

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