Road closure money-spinner
EXPENSIVE States of G (whoops, Freudian slip). Start again. States of Guernsey. There are much less expensive ways of relieving us of our hard-earned cash than GST. And we all know that if set at 5%, as much as 105% of the gain would go on extra administration staff and civil servant pensions and I am equally convinced that extra added fuel tax would do the same.
A less painful answer is already in your ever-clutching hands.
An increase in your stock of 'road closed' and 'diversion' signs are surely the least expensive route to collecting coins for your hungry coffers.
Think of the excise that is already being garnered because of the many million miles meandering motorists must make to reach their place of employ and then to suffer the ever-new changes en route to battle with the journey home.
When we see a 'road closed' sign, none of us explore the reason for their placings for we, as robots, just follow the yellow diversions on to other closed areas and the inevitable further red and yellow confusions. These latter finally vanish, leaving us haplessly lost in a maze of tiny lanes, each with a strategically placed sewage tanker at the lane's midpoint, where the driver is just starting to connect the hoses or a builder's truck hiding from view that there is as much traffic held up coming from the opposite direction to the one in which we are fuming.
As it stands, the closings that are happening probably are genuine happenings. Just think of how this could be exploited with more 'closed' and 'diversion' signs. Close roads that have no work in progress then divert by a circuitous route to the other end of that closed road to follow those yellow signs yet again. In how many places could this plan be abused? I can already hear the clinking of accumulated coins even above the rantings and cursings of maddened motorists if this ploy was inflicted upon them.
If you do use this idea, I seek no reward but I beg of you tell no one of the source of this suggestion.
(Or are you already using this system and still greed GST and more fuel tax?)
Machiavellian yours.
A. LA JOIE,
Rosina Cottage,
Mont Marche,
Forest.
