Re: Road Cost Recovery.

["Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>]

Bill Evans wrote in message <35618fbc.7513697@news.collective.com.au>...

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>May I be so presumtious as to suggest that there is a third
>alternative. How about corpratisation? Westrail has been corpratised
>and last year returned a nett operating profit. I believe this was the
>first time in it's history, and despite being sadled with the full
>costs of perway construction and maintenace costs.

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Queensland Rail have been corporatised for 3 years now and it returns a
profit, although this is after govt subsidy for uneconomic (ie politically
necessary) services. The point is that they do not have to operate these
services unless the minister directs them and this fact must be reported to
parliament. Once directed they are also entitled to payment from the
Treasury.


Barry Campbell