Re: More on airport lines

[David Bromage <dbromage@omni.com.au>]

Derick Wuen wrote:
> There are two choices
> 
> (1) up and expensively over the Brindabellas, well away from any real-estate
> development opportunities, until approximately near current main south. At
> this point, bean counters start talking about shared (by which they also
> mean T not so GV) infrastructure all the way from say Wagga to Melbourne

Prohibitively expensive. Any high speed route would follow the valley
towards Yass, then turn south towards Cootamundra.

> (2) keep east of main ranges through Dalgety and skirt around bottom of
> ranges in real estate paradise of Gippsland and into Melbourne via an
> expensively resumed route.

That route has been dead for years. Aside from the fact it would never pass
an EIS, the 1991 study estimated that route would cost an extra $1 billion
to built (1991 dollars) and the journey would be 15 minutes longer.

Cheers
David