Re: [NSW] More Complaints on CityRail Southern Highlands

["Al" <alpout@optusnet.com.au>]

"Bradley Torr" <truenorth@one.net.au.SPAMTRAP> wrote in message
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> Al <alpout@optusnet.com.au> wrote in article
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> > Like how CityLink in Melbourne cost $2.2B for "22km" of road, a lot of
> which
> > was just adding extra lanes onto already existing roads (eg Monash and
> Tulla
> > Fwy's), but the whole Pacific Hwy upgrade from Hexham to the Queensland
> border
> > (~700km) comes in for about the same amount.  CityLink - $100M per km,
> Pacific
> > Hwy $3 142 857 per km.
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> The Pacific Highway generally goes through nice rural terrain where you
> don't have any of those nasty things like high-density housing, railways,
> underground utilities, port facilities and the like in the way which either
> have to be demolished first or relocated. The Pacific Highway also doesn't
> have major tunnels, or a bridge as large as the Bolte. There aren't large
> sections of elevated road on the Pacific Highway either, let alone any that
> are built upon a suburban railway line. And not all of the upgraded
> portions of the Pacific Highway will have fully controlled access - i.e.
> much of it will just be a dual carriageway with at-grade crossings and
> possibly some property access.
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> Comparing inner-urban expressway with rural dual carriageway is like
> comparing a Huinter Valley coalie pulled by quad 90's with a decrepit
> single-ended shunter in some goods yard in a western plains town. (Sorry,
> just had to bring it back on topic).
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> Regards
> BT
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Brad,
You totally missed the point of my post.

Al