EastLink

I'm not really sure if I have mentioned here before or not but part of my job is to not only comply with, but manage as such, two SOX controls for the company. If I fail mine, then someone I work with, by default, fails as well as their controls rely on my passing mine. I have only taken over this responsibility 6 months ago as part of my day to day work, and I was pretty much just doing what I had been advised to do and hoping I was doing it right - I head read the controls though so I had a fair idea. A few weeks ago I was audited by the internal audit folks and I passed with a remediation point and I thought that was it - I passed, awesome! Today I got a phone call from our SOX guru at work and he told me that I passed my audit - I told him I thought I already had! He then told me that the internal auditors then have to pass everything onto KPMG who then go through it all again as external auditors and they have the ultimate decision on if I have passed or not - I had no idea! The news though was good and that was that I passed the external audit too! Phew! I think it is a good thing that I didn't know there was this extra step - one less thing to worry about.
Oh, I probably should mention that SOX is Sarbanes Oxley - New York Stock Exchange - our parent company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, so we have to comply as well.

This arvo after work I decided to go for a drive along the new EastLink freeway while it is still free and not a tollway.
Here is the entrance to the Mullum Mullum tunnel where you need to slow down from 100km to 80km but the real speed was closer to 60km


The new tunnels have height sensors and if a truck comes along that is too high these boom gates will come down and block ALL the traffic from entering the tunnel - it's happened a half dozen times or so since it opened on Sunday


Here is the culprit with an EastLink person - not really sure how they get off the road... probably reverse back to the previous exit, what has me curious though is what if they are in the right hand lane and not the left!


And after a few minutes of no movement we get to enter the Melba tunnel


The road makes the trip to Franganastan a lot quicker and stressless and traffic light free - I may even end up paying to use it if I need to go the full length of the road, however I don't think I will use it just to go to somewhere like Ringwood from the previous end of the Eastern Freeway - especially seeing as there will be less traffic on the free roads :D

It better not be raining in the morning - I want to ride to work!!