Re: Murwillumbah.

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L & D <daisyw@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message >     snipped by Kerry
Whitfield

>Today in our local paper on the front page was an article about the
> rumored cut backs to the staff at Murwillumbah. The article stated that
> the Travel Center lost nearly $23,000 last financial year it also stated
> that there were going to be further job cuts at other North Coast
> stations.

I live here in Byron Bay and have waited for over 20 years for an
announcement that the Casino to Murwillumbah line is to be closed. But this
dinosaur from the past is still open, the announcement has never come. I
wonder if the line could be put to better use if it were closed to trains
and the track be turned into a cycling and walking track. The line traverses
through some of the best tourist scenery in NSW. My guess is that made into
a recreation trail it may carry more people and goods by bicycle and foot
than it now does by train.

Kerry Whitfield
webmaster@orientbeach.com

http://yaraka-mixed.tourguide.net


L & D <daisyw@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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>      Today in our local paper on the front page was an article about the
> rumored cut backs to the staff at Murwillumbah. The article stated that
> the Travel Center lost nearly $23,000 last financial year it also stated
> that there were going to be further job cuts at other North Coast
> stations.
>       In the RTA documentation upgrading the Pacific hwy Yelgun to
> Chinderah which is going to cost $230 million and will be started on
> very soon, would have been a brilliant opportunity for up grading the
> rail line along the same alignment to bring the rail line a little
> closer to Tweed Heads only a dream!!!!
>     Separate to this there are discussions being held between the Qld
> Transport minister and his NSW counter part about the routes for the
> Tugun bypass and the route of the Coolangatta railway. Today in another
> local paper a story about these issues states they have appeared to come
> to an agreement of the route of the road   it is to go west of the
> airport subject to an environmental study as this was also the preferred
> route of the rail line we are all keeping our fingers crossed they have
> agreed to that also. The reason the Qld Gov. has to negotiate over the
> road and rail corridors is that they both leave Queensland and travel in
> NSW for about 4 km as the state border cuts diagonally through the
> Coolangatta airport the rail line is supposed to re enter Qld and finish
> near the airport terminal.
> Davo
>