Acts of bastardry on a toll road to nowhere  September 12, 2005
It's no wonder political parties have trouble attracting high
achievers, writes Paul Sheehan.  Taxi drivers already call it
the "Ghost Tunnel". I can see why. I've travelled through
Sydney's latest big infrastructure project, the Cross City
Tunnel, and on the first trip, at 8.55am, I saw one other car.
On the second, at midday, I may have glimpsed a van. We had the
place to ourselves.  This is not the first time the NSW
Government has backed a very expensive transport link that was
immediately rendered irrelevant by self-evident stupidity. The
absurdly priced, woefully underused city to airport rail link
springs instantly to mind. It's a basket case.  The Ghost Tunnel
is worse. It's blackmail. It has made the city worse. It's
floating on a foundation of lies. The CBD is now a more
dangerous place for pedestrians as exasperated drivers crawl
around barriers put up for absolutely no sane reasons. The
public is basically conducting a civil disobedi