Re: Latest news on Speedrail

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

Tezza (tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au) wrote:
> So for the VFT at Central, you would also have to allow time for check-in

Why? You can take your baggage on the train with you/

> and baggage and the same in Melboorne. Trains also have delays, the VFT will
> certainly have them Central to Campbelltown

Even with $600m of upgrades and quadruple track between Wolli Creek and
Emu Plains, then triple track to Glenlee Junction?

> I really don't think they'll get the numbers to make it viable, we just
> don't have the population densities.

Forget the population densities and look at the actual number of travellers.
Melbourne - Sydney is the third busiest city pair in the world for air travel.

Cheers
David