Thread: @%$#@%#@ M7

Originally Posted by PhilipA

I seem to recall that the Hornibrook Highway Bridge had a toll , Oh about 50 years ago. OK you Queenslanders show your knowledge or how old you are.

I remember she had a toll, though I was never alive when she had it.

The Hornibrook Highway and Indooroopilly bridges were privately owned and charged tolls accordingly. When the Indooroopilly bridge was handed to public ownership about 1958, the toll was stopped and the public company wound up and the shareholders were refunded their capital as well as a substantial final dividend from reserve funds. I don't recall what happened when the Hornibrook became toll free.

There are places you can live where there are:

No toll ways

No traffic lights

No round-abouts

No bridges

No tunnels

No peak hour traffic

...and places to use the four wheel drive

Just another reason not to live in the big cities. Wait for Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane to copy London and introduce a conjestion toll

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

True....but if everyone lived in those places.......

...it would be bloody crowded.

Still I have a 730km drive to find a traffic light, I can live with that

G'day Folks

Yes the "Hornibrook Highway" had a toll up to about 1975 I think, or until the new "Houghton Highway" (that 3 lane concrete segmented thing ) was built, I was in Royal Brisbane Hospital for a lot of 73 and one of the patients in a bed opposite me was a toll colector that had been cleaned-up by a drunk driver, he was a large man and was in a Spiker Cast

Originally Posted by UncleHo

Yes the "Hornibrook Highway" had a toll up to about 1975 I think, or until the new "Houghton Highway" (that 3 lane concrete segmented thing ) was built

In that case I was alive but not of an age to remember much of it

Yes there is alot they could do with the old Hornibrook bridge, however as it's a "between-shire" structure (ie. Redcliffe and Brisbane) neither wants to spend the money to maintain it.

Redcliffe certainly doesn't have the money to spend on it that Brisbane might, and Brisbane won't come to the party unless Redcliffe does to the same extent...

I remember back in the Sixties, my grandfather mentioned he had something to do with the Hornibrook Highway. I don't know if he provided finance to Hornibrook or whether he owned the land. I'll have to ask Dad.

He did have a lot of land in Brissie. I know that at one stage he owned a long tract (a mile or more) along Beaudesert Rd at Calamvale. It extended a fair way back in to the bush.

It was pretty much all gone by the time he died in the mid-Sixties.

Ron

Originally Posted by Stevo_62

Sorry, Forgetting my manners.

G'day Numpty's Mrs,

I read this a few times an came up with various responses varying from the "subtle sarcastic" to the "downright rude."

Being true to form I've decided to go with the downrite rude .
As for relatives its just depends how good lookin she was. And as for the 2 heads, well I've always had em. One of them I even think with.

The Anglican vicar in Winton is from Tasmania. Both his children had a thyroid problem requiring surgery. They tell people that the scars on their necks are from having the second head amputated before being allowed to travel overseas to the big island.