Re: Double Stacking

["John Wayman" <wayman@c031.aone.net.au>]

Terry Burton <telljb@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article
<5vnmh0$c37$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net>...
> 
> Double stack through Broken Hill and a bypass around the Adelaide
> Hills will almost make our National network viable for the 21st
> Century, but if the Feds keep pouring funds into the roads and
> State Governments allow longer and bigger trucks as in South
> Australia and Victoria then the truck carnage on our roads will
> continue and Rail will never be able to do the job it was meant
> to do.

No

Increasing truck sizes and weights will wear out all the superhighways that
all have an economic life before needing rebuilding.

The costs of replacing this road infrastructure will be horrendous and
perhaps swing the debate back to rail - if it hasn't all been scrapped by
then!


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Cheers

John Wayman