There's a hole in the tunnel

dear Liza, dear Liza, there's a hole in the tunnel, dear Liza, a hole.

It should probably worry me a bit more. When it was first noticed (Thursday two weeks ago) they closed off one lane and slowed the traffic down to 40kph, all the while taking over our radios and continuously repeating that there was an "incident" 3.5km into the tunnel. I - and probably every other driver in there - thought they meant a crash, as they try not to disturb anyone with the realities of what happens when you suddenly decelerate from 80kph, at least not before we've gone through the toll way counter. But it wasn't. It was water dripping from the roof of the Burnley tunnel.

The following day everything was back to normal and so I assumed it had been fixed. Nope, ended up with muddy water on my windscreen. It's now a fortnight later and there's still muddy water dripping fast from the roof, as well as a couple of other drips a bit further in.

It's a bit worrying, especially given that we are on the edge of a drought and the damn thing's dripping. What's going to happen if we have (not unusual) torrential rain and flooding?

So I've told my parents that if the tunnel collapses while I'm in it they are to sue:

1. TransUrban CityLink.
2. The state government.
3. Jeff Kennett.

and

4. Eddie McGuire. OK, he's not obviously involved but I'm sure there was a deal done there somewhere. He's got fingers in everything else...

But until then I'm singing as I drive through:

"Well *fix* it TransUrban, TransUrban, TransUrban, well *fix* it TransUrban, TransUrban Fix it!