Re: Gold coast rail extension?

["David & Jan Winter" <winterd@icenet.com.au>]

James

Tourists aren't the core business of the Gold Coast line. The local
authority is keen on a monorail link. The Albert Shire was the fastest
growing local authority (in % terms) in Australia - as Gold Coast urban
overspill.

If any rail based system was to get up, it would probably have to be a tube
line with small diameter tunnels (2.5 - 3.6m) and mined underneath roads,
not cut-and-cover. New railways in the open cost about $1m/km (Darwin line
figures). Tube construction (based on the Chelney figures, LT) is about
$100m/km. Enough said?

DW