[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Suburban densities and rail service (was Re: Putting light rail in subway)
- Subject: Re: Suburban densities and rail service (was Re: Putting light rail in subway)
- From: Deeg <galtfd@att.net>
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 19:16:53 GMT
- Newsgroups: misc.transport.urban-transit,alt.planning.urban,aus.rail
- Organization: AT&T Worldnet
- References: <uurvfs08772qjmap7nk2vfjvaijv0nf2jl@4ax.com> <smiths-ya02408000R2104001321380001@netnews.upenn.edu> <3900E255.6E90@iprolink.co.nz> <rnewman-2204000925130001@ppp39-148.thecia.net> <VzqM4.28$fG3.443030@news0.optus.net.au> <39023682@news.iprolink.co.nz> <iIqM4.30$fG3.449009@news0.optus.net.au> <ajwCORgHAnglm5+TlUwGfxI=LkfT@4ax.com> <yCyM4.1012$fG3.780806@news0.optus.net.au> <rnewman-2304000748000001@ppp39-112.thecia.net> <8e1rka$p7c$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
- Xref: bclass.spectrum.com.au aus.rail:6918
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 16:10:01 GMT, Vaughan Williams
<ender2000@my-deja.com> wrote:
>1. Each state picked a gauge and it seems nobody had the foresight to
>think they would ever want to link up. Or maybe they did but were too
>bureaucratically cumbersome to do anything about it (like that time all
>the states tried to change to daylight saving at the same time and NSW
>pulled out at the last minute, causing bedlam along the murray).
It's easy to criticise looking back from the year 2000. But when the
railways were first established, the idea that anybody would ever
travel overland between colonial capitals rather than by sea was too
ludicrous to be contemplated. In fact, intercolonial travel of any
sort wasn't of concern to most people. The rail systems began as
feeders to seaports. By the time the state networks were extended to
meet each other the gauges were long established.
Don Galt