Re: Smooth Ride

["Ron Bennell" <rbennell@teleport.com>]

>
> > QR was lucky
> > to have a pro-rail government who brought their standards up to the
90's.  For
> > example, Sydney has about 25 permanently staffed signal boxes in the
> > Metropolitan area.  Queensland has one
>
> They can thank old Joh for that one.
>
I think that Don Lane had more to do with it.  I did not like his politics,
but he seemed to have a better idea on what a railway was capable of,
compared to his successors as Minister for Transport.