Re: Airport rail goes bust

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
ijBV5.15$_42.2072@news0.optus.net.au">news:ijBV5.15$_42.2072@news0.optus.net.au...
> Taxpayers are one step closer to owning a $900 million lemon after the
> Airport Rail Link went into receivership yesterday.

It is only a lemon due to incompetent operation of the line by the operators
of the stations. The pricing was extortionate, and people were never going
to use it in the numbers that were necessary for the project to break even.

Now that it is there, if it operates in the same way as other stations (for
Green Square and Mascot) and with maybe a small surcharge (say, $2 or
thereabouts) for Domestic and International, then patronage should take off
(oops, did not really mean that).

Dave