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Most economists don't care wether an entrepeneur makes a decision that adversely affects them, you do. Who says it wouldn't be efficient - like in America now, different highways are to be built on the same route for different classes of vehicles. "Of course, perhaps ABL really does believe that duplicating the Hume Highway between Goulburn and Yass would be efficient, or the road between Tamworth and Armidale," This is a bit arrogant, the Hume is now effectively duplicated from what the pacific highway is. Volume and safety are important. I don't know. I'll leave that decision up to the investors. I am sure that without onerous taxation, regulation, that some profit seeking individual would have built an alternative or dual route along the pacific, given it's volume and poor public image. Maybe volume of sales and poor PR would make the privatised Pacific's owners react and improve their road - I suppose this doesn't happen in other industries?
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