Re: [VIC] Melbourne Airport Line

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

Dave Proctor (thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:
> David Bromage wrote in message ...
> >thalytgv@my-deja.com won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:
> >> Yes, the line will branch from Broadmeadow to get to airport, the
> >> terminal will be underground and it will be serve by express trains
> >> takes around 20 minutes, frequency will either be every 15 minutes or
> >> 20 minutes per train. When Labour won the election last year, the
> >> construction of this line got a brief mentioned(they will "look-into-
> >> options").
> >
> >Couldn't anybody see that Theiss being part of Bayside indicated railway
> >construction? :)
> >
> >Hopefully the airport railway will be finished in time for the 2006
> >Commonwealth Games.

> I thought the CityLink deal (or whatever it is called) prevented the airport
> railway from being built for about 20 years or so.....

Both Allan Brown and Robin Cooper said this was not the case, but you
can't always take what politicians say at face value.

Cheers
David