Re: Why Wooden Sleepers are better. Was [NSW] CityRail Delays Friday

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

eikkert@my-deja.com won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:


> > 1. You don't need to chop down trees - this may suprise some people
> > who think they magically appear out of nowhere. (the railways in
> > Australia, are partly responsible for deforesting much of Australia -
> > think  of all those wooden sleepers used since 1854 )

> And where do you think concrete comes from? Sand, lime, clays, they all
> have to dredged, extracted or mined.

And you can't grow concrete in plantations. :)

Cheers
David