Re: 3RD track

["Johann Fan" <jyf-x@optusnet.com.au>]

Jeremy Lunn <spammers-will-die@austux.net> wrote in message
news:slrn9e5nj5.1je.spammers-will-die@amalthea.dark.net...
> In article <01c0cb2c$6748d5c0$479417d2@rodsmith>, Roderick Smith wrote:
> > The money would be better spent on eliminating level crossings.  The
third
> > track isn't needed for either density or speed; building a third track
> > without eliminating level crossing simply repeats the mistakes of the
early
> > 1970s between Camberwell and Box Hill.
>
> They could always build the 3rd track at the same time as eliminating
> all the level crossings between Chatham and Ringwood.  Not that the
> government would want to spend that much money in a hurry.
>

They don't even want to spend money to remove one level crossing as seen in
the news today with those people blockading the Main Rd crossing at St
Albans. Good luck getting them to remove 10+ crossings!

cheers
Johann