Re: RIP ASW?

[Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au>]

Rod wrote:


>                the Feds allowed about 220 million for rail Australia wide! A
> minimum bridge from ground level up and over and back to ground level,
> missing the shopping centre and Road Bridges would eat all that up and some
> of the years to come! Simple! maybe if it was to carry trucks.....Wake up
> Son [as the loony toon Rooster would say]  This is a rail bridge you are
> talking about

If you are implying that rail bridges automatically cost many times more
than they should because of all the extras that are built into the
accounting process, and because of the desire of many rail engineers to
over-engineer, you may well have a point.

However as far as the specific case of Sunshine is concerned, who said
anything about missing the shopping centre etc? There is already a
natural grade separation because Tottenham Yard is so much higher than
the suburban tracks (in the area where the existing Brooklyn-direction
flyover is) and tracks could be taken around in the opposite curvature
to link up with the Brooklyn - Sunshine trackage and thence the back
platform at Sunshine. The new tracks would be very speed-limited by the
curvature, but no train is going very fast there anyway.

However it's all academic; the point is that a variety of people did not
WANT to do it, and questions of feasibility are entirely secondary in
that environment.

Eddie