Re: Alice to Darwin Railway > not looking so rosy.

["< Tell >" <telljb@ozemail.com.au>]

"Bill Miller" <backtran@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> They do get a subsidy, the pavement they drive on, studies have shown this -
> that long distance trucking is subsidised by the shorter distance variety
> and the taxpayer. In addition to this I don't see these "unsibsidised"
> outfits coughing up a red cent for any capital upgrades they currently get
> fro free - what they do pay may go partway to maintenance.


//Rose tinted glasses off.

What, no mention of the fact that untold BILLIONS in
"subs" have been spent on rail by the States.

----Terry Burton