Re: Murwillumbah.

[Don Allitt <nahgfa@zeta.org.au>]

That's all we need a bare foot Politician!!!!!!!!!!!
Don.

webmaster wrote:

> 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
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> 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
> >