Re: QR Mainline Upgrade

[thalystgv@yahoo.com]

In article <368D6664.EAADE7CF@uq.net.au>,
  Matthew Nolan <mnolan@uq.net.au> wrote:
> QR announced this week a $240 million upgrade of the line between
> Rockhampton to Cairns, it was reported in todays CM. This is to enable
> trains to run at 100 km/h constantly with the removal of 75% of speed
> restriction areas.
Too bad funding is still missing for Nambour to Caboolture duplication.

> It is interesting that this amount of money is the minimum amount that
> is considered to be required to upgrade the Sydney-Brisbane line in the
> short-term. Further, the $122 million being spent on the diesel tilt
> trains was considered by many to have been better spent in
> infrastructure upgrade.

But passenger train runnig time is really not competitive with all other mode
in this section, I believe it is still wise to spend money on accelerate on
transit time.

James

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