Re: money not going into trackwork

Terry Burton (telljb@ozemail.com.au)
Fri, 27 Jun 1997 04:21:50 GMT

pcc@ocean.com.au (Leslie Brown) wrote:
>mauried@commslab.gov.au (Maurie Daly) wrote in aus.rail:
>>One of the reasons that road gets a larger share of funding is that
>>in the case of the trucking industry it is a powerful lobby group,and speaks
>>with one voice for the whole of the industry across all of the country.Can we
>>say the same for rail, I think not.

>Is it any surprise?
>When you are a government appointee, it takes an enormous amount of
>courage to hassle your political masters for funding to improve rail
>services.
>No wonder Ian Dodd (I think) of the PTC who said that reform of the
>rail system has gone as far as it can under a government run and
>controlled system. I think his words were just as appropriate to his
>political bosses as they were to the unions.
>Putting railways on an equal footing with roads must also mean a rail
>lobby every bit as powerful as the roads.

>This is one very good reason for privitization of all rail services.
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>Les Brown

Hmmmmmm....... It would be the only reason.

Cheers

----Tell
Alice Springs NT