Re: Tocumwal(V/NSW) and Goulburn Valley

[david <david@nmit.vic.edu.au>]

was it the Kennet Government who got Hoy's the contract or the prev. Labor Gov.
?

I thought it was weird tendering a  railway route and a bus route as a same
contract, ie Hoys have both, and no one can run a competiive sevice. Didn't
they get the train contracts and run buses instead? Or if a bus operator got a
route, then a train could compete ?

When will they learn a train is a trian, a bus is a bus, a plane is a plane
etc....  - they are differen modes of transport and one mode does not
subsitiute for another ( ie if you want to go by train A-Z you do not want  a
BUS, otherwise you would have taken a bus !)

Regards,
David Head

James C wrote:

> > I agree with Doug I can never see it feesible for the return of passenger
> > traffic to Cobram, sorry to be a pessimist, unless the current labour
> > gonvernment injects funds to restore the service and heavilly subisidies
> > N.E. Although I have thaught of running a 3 car sprinter service on the
> G.V.
> > line one detatches off at Toolamba for Echuca, two to Shepp and one for
> > Cobram, but once again it would only be a service with no real return on
> > capital.
>
> There is a complication as well,  the train service currently is not run by
> V/line-P but Hoys. It maybe more complicated to ask Hoys to extend the
> service to Cobram.
>
> Cheers
> James