Re: Airport Line QLD

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au> wrote in message
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> No I haven't: I think that Sydney got the formula wrong too.
> I have been to Heathrow on LT, Barcelona airport on the local metro,
> Amsterdam Schiphol on suburban trains, Frankfurt Flg on suburban trains,
> Wien Schwechat on suburban trains, LAX, and probably more.
> All of these treat the airport as just another traffic point on the
system,
> at normal system fares.  This is what an airport railway should be like.

And it won't work unless the government has the will to build and operate
the system itself. We don't have that here in Australia, rather we have the
government(s) trying to rid themselves of whatever responsibility they can
for providing what should be a basic government service - transport.

Dave