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Re: Speedrail derailed?
- Subject: Re: Speedrail derailed?
- From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:03:28 GMT
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David Bennetts (davibenn@ozemail.com.au) wrote:
> See today's Sydney Morning Herald. According to Dr Phillip Laird, immediate
> Past Chairman of the Railway Technical Society, straightening of the worst
> 20% of the 300km of line between Sydney and Canberra, employing conventional
> or tilt trains would achieve significant time saving at a cost of 10% of
> that of Speedrail.
But it won't take any of the air market and little of the road market.
Laird has a long history of taking the "either/or" approach to reducing
journey times.
Cheers
David