Sorry, typo. That should be: "look after the pennies and the pounds will destroy themselves."

Tony P
---InTramsDownUnder@..., <prescottt@...> wrote :

Rod Staples is replacing Reardon in Transport I believe.

Interestingly, one of the financially profligate projects being most quoted in Wollongong in the opposition to the proposal to charge fares for the Gong Shuttle (to raise a mere $1 million a year directly from users) is the $1 BILLION dollar blowout on CSELR.

I see it as a NSW Government modification of the age-old advice: look after the pennies and the punds will destroy themselves.

Rare spectacle - the "party of business" being attacked by business who have more real-life sense:

https://www.nswbusinesschamber.com.au/Media-Centre/Latest-News/Gong-Shuttle-should-remain-a-free-service?topic=32 https://www.nswbusinesschamber.com.au/Media-Centre/Latest-News/Gong-Shuttle-should-remain-a-free-service?topic=32