Re: VFT/Sydney's Second airport (newspaper article)

[james_ccj@my-deja.com]

In article <UsJp4.626$A_1.478337@news0.optus.net.au>,
  dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage) wrote:
> Dave Proctor (thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au) won a Nobel Prize
for literature by writing:
> > What nobody seems to be saying (apart from those who are interested
in both
> > trains AND planes) is that given the number of aircraft movements
on the
> > Sunshine Coast / Brisbane / Gold Coast / Newcastle / Sydney /
Canberra /
> > Melbourne corridor, a high speed railway from Brisbane to Melbourne
via
> > Sydney would remove just about all of the air traffic from this
>corridor
That's why some insiders doubt there would be any extension to this
project from Canberra to Melbourne or Sydney to Brisbane as Qantas is
part of the speedrail group. It wouldn't be happy when all its major
traffic taken by rail.



> Not quite all, but certainly a lot of it. Qantas plans to withdraw
all the
> Dash-8 turboprop services from SYD-CBR when Speedrail starts
operation.
> This would leave 3 jets per day.

what about the Speedrail's Canberra terminal? will it be closer to
Canberra city center then Country Link's Canberra Station?


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James


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