Re: Cost of Alice Springs to Darwin.

David Johnson (trainman@ozemail.com.au)
Tue, 26 Aug 1997 11:07:45 -0700

Maurie Daly wrote:

> No doubt most readers would have heard the cost of this project is approx $900
> M or for the distance involved $1 million per km.
> Does anyone know what the cost breakup per km is that leads to this total cost.
> From some simple calculations based on 60 kg rail and concrete sleepers laid
> by a 20 man team using modern track laying equip , I cant come up with
> anything like this cost.

Perhaps the cost of completely re-building the ports?

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