Re: Hexpress

[Dave Proctor <david@sd3.mailbank.com>]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:06:40 GMT, RC <richy@yahoo.com> wrote:

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>Dave Proctor wrote:
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>> On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 14:23:25 GMT, RC <richy@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> >For Gawd's sake they spent (whatwazit) $700 million dollars on the damn thing!
>> >What did they get - crap I tell ye!
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>> They got two extra lines from Wolli Creek to Central, two lines which
>> were needed anyway and which would have cost a large amount of money
>> to build. Sending it via the airport was merely a bonus.
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>> Dave
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>Really - how much for two extra lines through the half-built platforms at St Peters
>and Erskineville? Sixty million at the outside?

Still need to repossess a lot of land, and do a stack of work
reclaiming a lot of the land between Erskineville and Redfern - the
railway already owns it so getting it won't be a problem, but
reclaiming it would be another matter entirely.

>And if you don't go via this route,
>then of course you will  be going via the Airport and it will be an Airport rail
>line, and will be judged as such

No, it should be judged as a another set of tracks which needed to be
built anyway and which happen to serve the airport. Granted it could
have been done better, but when the primary objective is to handle the
trains from Campbelltown to the City, the line - as built - serves
that purpose well.

Dave