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Re: The Age today - "Rail Review Gets Released"
- Subject: Re: The Age today - "Rail Review Gets Released"
- From: telljb@OZozemail.com.au (< Tell >)
- Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 03:04:25 GMT
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A few of us have been saying for a long time now, that
the States, Queensland excepted, MUST be removed from
non urban rail.
But the Feds have to make a big dollar commitment for
it to work. With a multitude of Private Operators the
National Network infrastructure must always remain with
the Government to ensure a fair go for all Operators.
It will be the best and fairest outcome and about the
only way rail will survive.
----Terry Burton
steam4me@enternet.com.au (Yuri J Sos/Melbourne AUS)
wrote:
> In the Business Section (Page 3) of "The Age" today:
>
> HEADLINE READS: Rail review gets released
>
> By TIM COLEBATCH
> ECONOMICS EDITOR
>
> State governments should get out of non-urban rail completely,
> selling their rail operations to the private sector and their rail
> tracks to the Commonwealth, the Smorgon task force on the
> future of rail has urged.
>
> But in a blunt message to Canberra, which commissioned its
> review, the task force has told the Government it must treble
> immediately its investment in replacing and improving worn-out
> rail track, saying even its recommendation of an extra $470
> million by 2002 would not be enough to rectify the substandard
> state of the national track.
>
> Read the full article online at
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990601/bus/bus9.html
>
> Regards
>
> Yuri