Re: Road Cost Recovery.

[telljb@ozemail.com.au (Tell)]

mauried@commslab.gov.au (Maurie Daly) wrote in part:
>The worst case scenerio is probably the most likely ,ie , the feds get out of 
>rail all together (when they sell their share of NR), the ARTC is a flop due 
>to lack of funds to fix the crummy tracks, we cant get rid of the idiotic 
>access charges, and rail slowly fades away. (Would anyone care, apart from the 
>rail fans)

I have stated this before and I repeat again, the over
whelming majority of Australians could not give two
hoots about the national rail scene.  
Do you know what concerns most people about railways.?
Being held up at a level crossing by a train.!  
The very same people will tolerate heavy road
transport.  It is a strange world we live in.

Get ALL governments out of non suburban railways on the
standard gauge and turn it over to the private sector.
It will survive, make no mistake about that.
A healthy non government national rail system means
that private pass trains will also survive.

Governments in Australia have had long enough, and
untold billions of dollars to produce a decent
integrated rail system, they have FAILED.
  
----Tell
Alice Springs NT