Re: Alice Springs Council demands new Darwin line bypasses Town.

["Spaceman" <fowler9@spamone.net.au>]

Gday all
< Tell > wrote in message <3681831d.3454296@news.ozemail.com.au>...
>The Alice Springs Council has taken on the Northern
>Territory Government with the proposed Alice Springs to
>Darwin rail link, by stating that it will oppose the
>present plan to have the railway extended from the
>present terminal.
>
>The Council has a consultants report which claims the
>cost of routing the line East of Alice Springs will not
>cost "much more" than the present proposal.
>
>The Council claims, "it does not want goods trains
>thundering through the town day and night."!!
>

What do they bloody want.... Road Trains doing the exact same thing. I would
rather a goods train come through as then you know it's taken away a dirty
big road train and has made the road a little safer.

>NT Railway minister, Barry Coulter has served a
>broadside at the Council, saying their proposal will
>jeopardise the whole project.
>
>The consultants report has not yet been made public.
>
>Cheers
>
>----Terry Burton
>

Tyipical... a council of the country against public transport..... When will
all this crap end and this country get a decent rail system like in Europe

Chris