Re: Light Rail Costings on-line

[world@pickle.com (Erkcle Diprospanotsu)]

What a load of blatent lolly pop. Canberra has the population of
Newcastle, but unfortunately not the personality, style and
sophistication. Why must we persist with investigations into something
which is really a white elephant? Canberra will eventually be a ghost
town.

Erkle D.


On 21 Jan 98 09:15:51 GMT, Peter Parker <parkerp@pcug.org.au> wasted
our time and oxygen by typing thus:

>Appendix 2 of "Canberra at the Crossroads" has a costing for a light rail 
>system in Canberra, linking all existing and future town centres.  
>
>The Appendix shows that light rail can be considerably cheaper than the 
>hundreds of millions quoted in a Booz-Allen consultants report prepared 
>several years ago. 
>
>You can get to the appendix through the Sustainable Transport Working 
>Group page (URL below).
>
>aus.rail readers may be interested in our group's costings (prepared 
>November 1997). 
>
>regards,
>-- 
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