Re: Federal Budget- Nothing for the Nation's Railways!

["RC" <richy_ch_2000@yahoo.com>]

111 million withdrawn from spending on improving  interstate mainline track
in NSW. Supposedly given to ARTC

11.6 million apparently for projects outside NSW - not sure what

The ridiculous high speed rail feasibility study

The inevitable Alice-Darwin thing (They must regard that as genuine rail
spending - and even that is only 41 million this year)

20 million withdrawn from Brisbane Light Rail

The Maunsell Report suggested hundreds and hundreds adn hundreds of millions
required for Mel-Syd-Bne just for light works (signalling, loop extensions
and track) with few realignments

Look at Queensland on the other hand, the sums spent between Brisbane and
Cairns without a cent from Commonwealth

Richy C

Stupid voters all I can say"Grahame Ferguson"
<grahamef@users.mcmedia.com.au> wrote in message
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> The Howard/Costello budget tonight contained not a cent for the nations
> railways, but billions for roads.
>
> Maybe in the fine print of the Transport Department's budget there might
be
> the odd grant?
>
>