Re: Re: [Melb] Airport Heavy Rail Connection Needed!

["Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au>]

Daniel Bowen wrote in message ...
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>"Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au> wrote in message
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>> David Johnson wrote in message ...
>> >In all fairness, Tullamarine is a lot further from SSS than Mascot is
>> >from Central, therefore, I would expect the price to be higher.
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>> Sydney PTC Airport Express is about one third the taxi fare to CBD;
>> Melbourne Skybus significantly less than a third of taxi fare to CBD. So
>> does not seem way out of whack.
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>Skybus is $12. A taxi to the city would, by my estimate, be around $30.
Last
>time I went from the airport to my home by taxi (roughly twice the distance
>as from the city) it was about $60.
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Paid $40 SSS-Tullamarine last Wednesday, includes $3 "freeway" surcharge.

>Daniel
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>Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
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