Re: Ararat BG connections

["Grahame Ferguson" <grahamef@users.mcmedia.com.au>]

Why spend all that money just to connect one town.  Ararat is connected for
freight purposes, and to connect it for a few passengers is ludicrous.
Rather the money would be better spent on improving Newport-Nth Geelong-
Maroona to increase capacity and transit times.  Could the money spent on
the ASW research development and establishment have been better spent
installing CTC in the first place, or put in straight train-orders and spent
the money on the track.
We seem to be going backwards.
It would be better for VLF to spend money on standardising the Mildura line
and thereby have two wheat export outlets for Mildura line wheat at Portland
and Geelong, or even Port Adelaide, Freemantle and Sydney for that matter.
In Victoria is seems  to be 'Back to the Future'!