Dragway a no-go

Great suggestion bonfire! Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t those smash-em-up derbys usually feature a couple of old caravans being dragged around in the mud? Sounds perfect to me.

They have to resume/pay for the property it is on, build roads to it from Majura road etc. They were going to dig it 5m into the earth as a sound barrier, but have already run out of money to do that. I don’t know what the other costs are.

I can’t even see why they need 8 million? Old one had a pile of dirt, some bleacher seating, a few atco huts, a strip of bitumen, some barriers and some lights. And a very noisy PA system.

a genuine concern or a canard flown by anti-dragway zealots in the hope they will triumph over sanity and reason.

I think Deb asked the question about the financial viability of the dragway because there is a genuine concern that it will cost the ACT a fortune for the forseeable future. Not just to embarass Andy B. Who should have known the answer anyway – he was asked teh same question 2 weeks ago on radio and said he’s look into it.

Andrew B also got to announce the gutting of canberra tourism under his tourism portfolio.

… but who isn’t any more.

they could just drag the caravans to one of the soon to be disused school ovals.

tada!

problem solved

well, one anyway.

i think foskey is preaching to the choir here. her constituency do not and never will support any form of mototsport in the act.

i think tripping up a new minister who is already barely coping is hardly worthy of a press release.

and asking questiosn regarding fiscal appropriateness is a tough one coming from a highly paid pollie who was sitting in a subsidised house in one of canberras better suburbs.

I have to admit that I’ve been wondering if Sonic felt threatened by Andy, and by handing him such a tough portfolio Sonic is hoping to destroy his career in politics before it really gets rolling.

Yep. Close the schools and the poor-peoples’ van park, but open a dragway. Nasty juxtaposition, that one. A very hard sell.