Re: [VIC] New Bayside timetable in November

["Railway Rasputin3" <jamesccj@optusnet.com.au>]

Vaughan Williams <ender2000@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> > It kind of worries me that the government are handing money over
> fist, as
> > in incentive for the private rail companies to do what they were
> bound to
> > do by contract in the first place. Why not put the money where it is
> > needed? We have needed an airport line for a few years now. Public
> > transport in the south east of Melbourne is apalling, so why not fix
> that?
>
> I don't think it was anywhere near $70m for the flier trains, which
> aren't in the contracts (they are additional to what is in the
> contracts).
73m$ IIRC, it was in the state budget. Part of the fund will be contributes
triplication work north of Box Hill and additional priemere stations.

>The flier trains will probably end up being one super-
> express in the peak direction in each peak. Not one vote, and not one
> passenger in them.

Do'h!

Cheers
James