Re: Bracks supports VHST to Melbourne

["James C." <james_ccj@my-deja.com>]

In article <8ke81o$rim$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Vaughan Williams <ender2000@my-deja.com> wrote:
> I don't know why governments are so keen on public/private
> sector "partnerships" for rail projects.
So in the future they can sell them i suppose.........

> With few exceptions, roads are
> not funded on this basis, so why should rail?
Road lobbist donates more money to the government then rail
operators....(maybe)


> I'd rather the government abandoned the VFT project and instead
started
> fixing up the 19th-century alignment of the line from melbourne to
> sydney. That way we could have both a MFT and FFF.
> As it stands, the VFT will not take a single B-double off the hume
> highway.
Yes it will!!!

TGV tracks (LGV) can take normal freight trains as well, SNCF let
freight trains run over its Altanitc line since 3 years ago.

IIRC some freight trains also allowed on TGV Nord , TGV EST will be
build up to standard that can take freight trains also. Not sure about
TGV-SudEst and TGV Med thou

Cheers
James



> Vaughan
>
> > But what really sticks in my craw is that private enterprise does
not
> want
> > government funding on the VHST project - they want tax incentives,
> i.e. it
> > would be government revenue foregone. But if the project does not go
> ahead,
> > then the government would not have received that revenue anyway, so
> they are
> > in effect losing nothing. Based on what has been said about the
> project thus
> > far, it is only government approval for the tax incentives that is
> holding
> > it up. Why are they so concerned about revenue foregone?
>
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James


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