Unreliable

Unreliable bastards! We build freeways for you, and you bloody refuse to use them. I mean, not really, there's still gridlock every morning and evening, and we're still doing very nicely out of tolls, but not as well as we could be doing. Which really makes it difficult to justify building more of the things.

What more do we need to do? The private company the government has interposed between them and you is already badly mismanaging the increasingly overcrowded public transport system to try to force you onto the roads. Petrol prices are going back to only a criminally offensive level. So what's the problem?

This doesn't usually happen to us. Usually freeways are very effective at increasing the number of cars on the roads so that governments have to build more roads to cover the extra demand. It's what we in the roads industry call a viciously awesome circle. And I'm sure we could get back to it if you freaking hippies would stop whinging about petrol prices and stop enduring public transport and instead get back to sitting pathetically in your cars calling talkback radio and asking for more freeways.

Is that really too much to ask?