Re: Cost of Alice Springs to Darwin.

["Sam K" <vivandrw@iinet.net.au>]

Maurie Daly <mauried@commslab.gov.au> wrote in article
<mauried.91.3400FCE1@commslab.gov.au>...
> 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.
 

Daly
>  What about signalling,telecoms,rolling stock,transport of materials to
site,accomadation,project management etc?
>  Andrew