Criticism
The M5 Motorway has been beset by many closures, due to accidents and computer failures within the M5 East Tunnel owned by the RTA, which have caused gridlock and havoc among Sydney motorists. Between 2002 and 2008 there were 6 closures attributed to technical and computer failures alone in the tunnel.
The Government of New South Wales must pay penalties to the operators of the M5, BHBB, due to more traffic using the M5 than originally forecast. The penalties were expected to amount to $13 million by 2011. The increase in demand was caused by the State Government's Cashback scheme, which involves public money subsidising motorists for using the M5.
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Famous quotes containing the word criticism:
“Parents sometimes feel that if they don’t criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn’t make people want to change; it makes them defensive.”
—Laurence Steinberg (20th century)
“It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I.- men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep- hole and missing laundry list school.... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)