> > Actually, I don't really care because either way, Countrylink still
> > only send one XPT to Brisbane per day, and it's damn expensive and
> > slow to get to Sydney on it so everyone who's anyone catches a plane
> > and everyone who isn't takes the coach (which is 3 hours faster.)
>
> Shows what rail is up against... the Pacific Highway between the Gold
> Coast and Newcastle is still one of the worst roads in Australia for an
> interstate link and coach travel, with all the detours and rest stops,
> still has that kind of advantage. Wonder what kind of improvements to
> rail the $1 billion earmarked for the PH duplication could buy.
I personally think that the Pacific rail link between Brisbane and
Sydney should only exist to service the coastal towns on the way.
It's way to snakey to be of any real use as a genuine Inter-City
rail corridor. For fast travel, we need another corridor somewhere
flat, unpopulated and that is also suitable to pay its own way as
a freight line.
Brisbane->Moree->Sydney/Canberra->Melbourne. The Newell highway would
do nicely, thank you very much! :-)
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