Re: Tourist Railway for Canberra?

[ajwright@ozemail.com.au (Ashley Wright)]

On 2 Jul 98 08:58:56 GMT, Peter Parker <parkerp@pcug.org.au> wrote:

>On tonight's ABC radio news bulleton at 6pm was an item on a proposal for 
>a railway line in Canberra to link the National Aquarium to the War 
>Memorial via the City Centre.  
>
>In my view this is a silly idea. The numbers of visitors would be 
>insufficient to sustain a frequent service.  Thus there would be 
>considerable expenditure on hardware for a second-rate service that few 
>people would use.  The idea smacks of using a sledge hammer to crack a 
>nut.  It is the sort of extravagance that all to often enables critics of 
>to portray rail advocates as overgrown boys wanting the government to pay 
>for expensive toys that benefit few.  
>

  One would gather that the main reason for the line would be the
tourist market for the mesuem if it ever gets going. IMO a line would
be a good way to get there for tourists and keeping in line with the
mesuems roll. I beleive the plan is to run old trams from around
Australia. Also do you remember about 10 years ago the ads for the
mesuem actually showed a running tram running around the park??



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