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Re: End of the line for rail link to Bondi
- Subject: Re: End of the line for rail link to Bondi
- From: Greg Rudd <grudd@mail.usyd.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 12:07:47 +1000
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: The University of Sydney, Australia
- References: <3B09ACF5.BC0424D5@fang.omni.com.au>
- Xref: news1.unite.net.au aus.rail:37494
David Bromage wrote:
> The State Government has dumped plans to build a rail line to Bondi
> Beach and instead will pour more than $86 million into fixing peak-hour
> problems on CityRail's Eastern Suburbs and Illawarra lines. The Minister
> for Transport, Mr Scully, revealed last night that he had rejected an
> amended proposal by the Bondi Beach Railway Company which would have
> cost $247million, including $94million from taxpayers.
>
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/0105/22/national/national9.html
It would be a far better investment to fully complete the ESR than to muck
around with tin-pot schemes shuch as this.