Re: Latest news on Speedrail

["Rod Gayford" <rjaygee@eisa.net.au>]

Most of the travel will be business travel which is mainly capital city
based.  The peons out at Penrith are too busy spending their income on
consumer goods to be a worthwhile market for capital city business travel.
On a more serious note, even if you live away from the city centre most
business travel is paid for by the company/government agency that employs
you and this involves mainly capital to capital travel.

Cheers
Rod Gayford

"David Johnson" <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Tezza wrote:
>
> > "neumannc" <neumannc@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> > > Tezza wrote:
> > > > Plus the rest. Check-in, baggage, city transfers.
> > >
> > > Obviously you have never travelled on a VFT style service.
> >
> > Guilty.
> >
> > > Overseas VFT
> > > services run city centre to city centre, so you do not need a City
> > > transfer (eg Tullamarine to Bourke Street)
> >
> > Unless your origin and destination are on each station, yes you do. Just
as
> > you have to get to and from the airport, you have to get to and from the
> > railway station. If you're going to add it to the plane time, you also
have
> > to add it to the train time.
>
> Agreed.  All the figures they are quoting are for Central to Spencer
Street.
> Mr Proctor:  Now provide us with the following time comparisons:
>
> Fair: Penrith to Dandenong
>
> Unfair: YSSY (Kingsford Smith Airport) to Tullamarine Airport.
>
> --
> David Johnson
> trainman@ozemail.com.au
> http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
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