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Re: Article in Australian 18/7
- Subject: Re: Article in Australian 18/7
- From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:43:36 GMT
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Another Optus Customer
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deano (dsma@pigpond.com) wrote:
> The problem for the HS rail link is it will only be built only to Canberra
> initially and on that route it has to compete with Ansett/Kendell,
> Qantas/Eastern, Impulse and Virgin.
And the 4 million people who drive between Sydney and Canberra each year.
> take off in a rush and this fact is very likely to knobble the growth of the
> link to Melbourne. The other side of the coin is that Dept of Transport
> figures show that 5.1 million passengers travelled the Syd-Mel-Syd route
> last year making it virtually the busiest city pair in the world
It's the third busiest.
Cheers
David