Re: VFT Sydney - Canberra

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

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> Personally speaking, the feasability of a High Speed Rail from Sydney
> to Canberra/Melbourne is a waste of tax payers money. We do not have
> the population to warrant such a system. And I'm not speaking out of my
> arse here because I do have a vested interest if a high speed rail
> system goes ahead. I've read a report about such a system proposed for
> the New York to Washington DC line and even they worked out that it
> would not pay it's way. Now we're talking about a population the size
> of Australia between those cities so our proposed passenger numbers is
> far smaller. And we now have more air competition on that route which
> is driving prices down ie Impulse $139 One Way.

So we have the population to create enough demand for air travel that a
second airport is required for Sydney, an airport which will take a huge
amount of taxpayer funding, but we don't have the population to build a
railway that will eliminate the need for that airport for the foreseeable
future and will use mainly private funding but with some government funding?
Weird way of looking at it.

Dave