It Tolls For Thee

The Lane Cove Tunnel went broke this week.
 

In NSW, that’s the 438^th large infrastructure project to burst into flames and injure every banker nearby, this financial year!*
 

There’s something pleasingly curious about this in a Zen kind of way.
 

How does a tunnel go bust?
 

A bridge? Yes. A bridge can go bust because it’s a thing. A tunnel is not a thing. It’s the absence of a thing. If we leave it alone, what happens? The Billy Goats Gruff find it easier to get around and avoid the Troll-Toll?
 

Your hole went bust and we are going to repossess it. That’ll learn ya. Or as the Zen masters would say, “Dig a hole. Then fill it in.”
 

If the NSW government can’t make a quid from a Zen-porno film called, Your Hole Went Bust And We Had To Fill It In, then, that Catholic Premier of ours isn’t worth her salt.
 

*All A Grey Area ‘facts’ qualified with an exclamation mark are open to debate. Ok. All A Grey Area facts are open to debate. Ok. I’ve never said anything remotely correct. You’re still here, aren’t you? Killjoy