Re: Canberra = CityRail?

[petercook2705@my-deja.com]

With a Limited Stops service (and no extra funds for safeworking
upgrades Joppa-Canberra), I can see about 8 reasons:

Bungendore, Tarago, Goulburn, Bundanoon, Moss Vale, Bowral, Mittagong
and Picton.

Patronage in the Southern Highlands is growing, and a direct service to
the CBD, while certainly necessitating the construction of additional
rollingstock, would make the service much more accessible and
attractive to potential passengers from that area...

Just because convenient connections are provided at Campbelltown
doesn't mean people are happy about changing from a nice, fast, clean-
ish diesel to a skungy, slow suburban electric.


MrPC


In article <V2ad6.293094$IP1.9532167@news1.giganews.com>,
  "Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> <petercook2705@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> 948nuc$p2j$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:948nuc$p2j$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> > Why not provide a direct link from Canberra and the *******Southern
Highlands*******
> > to Sydney Airport?  Running it via AL would probably only add 4-5
> > minutes compared to Sydenham, but it would be worth it when you
> > consider the additional passenger loadings that would occur with a
> > direct airport link.
>
> And why would you catch a train to Sydney airport from Canberra, when
the
> CBR-SYD addon is only in the vicinity of $80 (to most international
> airfares), which admittedly is more than the train fare, but with the
> airfare addon, you get the advantage of through-checking your
baggage, so
> you do not have to worry about it in Sydney, seat allocation in CBR
for your
> international flight, etc.


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