Re: HST's, pollies and dreamers.

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

David Bromage wrote:

> Ben Staples (BenKim@bigpond.com) wrote:
> > I really can't see what the problem is. Eight billion, so what!! I really
> > dont think this Melbourne Darwin railway goes far enough. If I had my way
> > we'd be spending eight trillion on linking Australia with the asian mainland
> > via PNG and Indonesia. We don't need ships, just really long tunnels.
>
> It's actually technically feasable, although an economic nightmare. A
> railway up Cape York, tunnel to PNG, then rail and tunnels through
> Indonesia to Singapore.

I don't like the idea of running a train tunnel through continental plates.

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