Re: Millenium trains more than a year late

["Al" <alpout@optusnet.com.au>]

"Gavin Miller" <advance@omen.net.au> wrote in message
news:3aa8ccd9$0$8528@echo-01.iinet.net.au...
> "David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
> news:3AA843D6.EB48B8D4@fang.omni.com.au...
> > The $400 million Millennium train project will not be on the tracks
> > until at least the end of the year, having already been delayed since
> > 1998. The first of the 81 sleek commuter carriages will not take
> > passengers until December -- and CityRail is not ruling out more delays.
>
>
>
> As long as they commence operations in 2001 (the first year of the new
> millennium) they will still be aptly named.
> If they had commenced operations in 2000, it could be said that they were "a
> year early" !!
>
> Gavin Miller
> Perth, WA
>


You never know, they still may be appropriately named.. as in taking a
Millenium to get happening...