Re: Bradfield's Electric City Railway

[Robert Harris <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

Bill Bolton wrote:

> "Hubert Lam" <hubert@softhome.net> wrote:
>
> > If his plans ever went according to plan then
> >we wouldn't have the traffic problems in Sydney
> >as we do now, would we?
>
> We probably would.  Bradfield's initial, and uncosted *proposals*,
> were still largely for a rail system focused on the Sydney CBD.
>
> Its easy to draw notional lines on a map, its a lot harder to turn
> notional proposals into workable plans, and harder still to find the
> money to implement the plans..... as history has adequately
> demonstrated many times over the years with public transport projects
> around the world.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill

Bill,

You are thinking 1990's.
Back when Dr Bradfield was doing his bit things wern't what they were
today. Not everyone had cars and the railways were not under some stupid
plan to try and make money, if they had to  no trains would of left the
Sydney basin, In fact the line to Parramatta would of shut down
completely. They built Zig Zag, if they did that they could do just about
anything including the good doctors plans.

rgds