Re: Queanbeyan -Cooma Line

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

"Shaun M. Barker" <seagn@apex.net.au> wrote in message
971671389.39358@draal.apex.net.au">news:971671389.39358@draal.apex.net.au...
> One of the real problems is that to make any railway line commercially
> viable. You would need to remove or restrict the amount of road freight,
> this will never happen because the "TWU" wouldn't allow it to occur
because
> of the massive increase in unemployment.

Which means that we need a government which is willing to allow the national
interest to prevail over the wishes of a union to protect the employment of
its members. Other industries have had to cope with changes in technology,
etc, why shouldn't truckies have to make a similar switch?

Dave