Originally Posted by iahphx

Thanks for all the help. As I get closer to my travel date, I'm going to have to carefully consider the alternatives, because I can tell that there is definitely considerable "hassle" with driving a rental car around Sydney.

Of course, this is true everywhere. My pet peave at the moment is how many "civilized" democratic countries like to make their roads "police states." I'm currently fighting a $248 ticket for supposedly driving 10 miles over the speed limit on a desolate Texas interstate highway. And I was driving the "famous" New Jersey Turnpike this morning and the cops were using every trick in the book to pull motorists over: like lowering speeds to 45 mph for non-existent "construction" and then using un-marked cars to pull people over. I don't understand why we allow our governments to do this kind of thing.