I'm more surprised the mobile roadblock didnt nail it up to 170 kph once they reached the overtaking lane then slow down again at the end.....
Spending Xmas in Cairns, and all the way up from the Sunny Coast that's what we experienced - people doing 95 holding up traffic, then adding 10-15 every time there was an overtaking lane.
Had to back off a few times to ensure an oncoming vehicle performing a dangerous overtake didn't go under the front of the Patrol.
Truly it is hard to believe that the Bruce Highway is Queensland's major highway. It is easily the worst major road I've ever driven on. Especially when you see that the $20 billion that is needed to upgrade the Bruce was spent on making the Ipswich to Brisbane commute take 45 minutes instead of 55 minutes.
We actually stopped at the place that Mrs Squalo's father and stepmother died in a head-on near Proserpine (along with three other people in the other car; the driver of the other car who'd fallen asleep survived, of course). And while we were there at the site; which is clearly marked with a cross, someone threw a can at us from a passing car... seriously what hope do you have when you are sharing the roads with people like that.
Anyway, we got here, now to get back in one piece.
