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Re: Rough Tracks

Subject: Re: Rough Tracks
From: "Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:54:28 +1100
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Giganews.Com - Premium News Outsourcing
References: <3AAC691A.7D90F8DF@nospam.acslink.net.au> <m41satgnvemu62gihqbjfq7dkga9sudb7i@4ax.com> <yNwr6.2817$zW2.122868@ozemail.com.au> <3AB139CD.626CE21D@nospam.acslink.net.au> <3AB279B5.A5442A32@pnc.com.au> <pdj3btop531nb40tl8484c84n6r14vlbr5@4ax.com>
Xref: bclass.spectrum.com.au aus.rail:33544

"ROBERT SCHROEDER" <bobschroeder@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
pdj3btop531nb40tl8484c84n6r14vlbr5@4ax.com">news:pdj3btop531nb40tl8484c84n6r14vlbr5@4ax.com...
>
> You should compare the corridors rather than the country wide
> population base,
> The population in the Sydney-Canberra-Melbourne corridoe is very
> similar to the Paris-Lyon corridor, albeit the distance is greater.
> Yhe eastern seaboard of Australia could easily support Very Fast
> Trains!

And the Sydney-Melbourne corridor is the third most heavily trafficked air
corridor in the world. I seriously doubt that you could not woo some (most?)
of them onto a rail service that offered the same city centre to city centre
journey times, just like what has happened in Europe with similiar journeys.

Dave

References:
- Re: Rough Tracks
  - From: "Neil O'Connor" <neil_oconnor@nospam.acslink.net.au>
- Re: Rough Tracks
  - From: Mark & Roz Creely <mcreely@pnc.com.au>
- Re: Rough Tracks
  - From: ROBERT SCHROEDER <bobschroeder@optushome.com.au>

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