Re: SNCF budge for 1999

["Jack" <bd107@tsn.cc>]

thalytgv@my-dejanews.com wrote in message
<777a0v$e7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>
>
>According to "Today's Railways" SNCF budged GBP 5.56 billions$ or about 11
>billion AUST$ for the finacial year of 1999 "only".
>
>If Australia were given this amount of money each year I think we would
have a
>double track standard gauge with 25kv electrification from Carins through
to
>Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and all the way to Perth 10 years
ago!
>Alice Spring-Darwin line would have completed decades ago.


You are forgetting one thing ..... a population 3 times what we have now to
provide the money :)

Cheers
Jack
For a minute there I lost myself