Re: Gunnedah shire pushes Melbourne-Darwin rail line

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

Taliesin Walker (taliesin@chariot.net.au) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:
> Surely it would make more sense to spend the $1 billion on upgrading the
> Melbourne - Adelaide lines. Trains going from Melbourne to Darwin could go
> via Adelaide. (Perhaps living in Adelaide makes my biased).

Sure, but that would be public money. ATEC is a privately funded project, 
and would include a gas pipeline along the route. I'm not saying one is
better than the other, they're just different.

Cheers
David