Re: HST's, pollies and dreamers.

["Ben Staples" <BenKim@bigpond.com>]

I guess the opening up of the American west doesn't figure in this argument.

Ben Staples

Barry Campbell wrote in message <6n01b2$egf$1@news.mel.aone.net.au>...
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>>The Alice to Darwin railway has been on the agenda for
>>a long time and is in it's final stages of planning.
>>Whoever wins the contract will probably have trouble
>>raising 1.2 BILLION, never mind 8 BILLION.!
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>>Any thoughts.
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>Nobody has ever put up a realistic argument for a railway from anywhere to
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>city of less than 100,000 people that generates no traffic and has a port
>which is insignificant in its throughput. BTW why was the money wasted on
an
>even less useful line to Alice Springs?
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>Barry Campbell
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