Re: Alice Springs to Darwin line, but wait, there is more.!

["Tom Jones" <jonest@senet.com.au>]

On a level playing field rail should always be cheaper than road and sea
should be cheaper than rail.

I suggest that if the Alice-Darwin line already existed the road train
industry would not!

> > The strategic importance of a rail link to Darwin may get a boost, rail
> > could have made it cheaper to transport vital war materiel to Darwin for
> > shipping to East Timor,
>
>
> Not so John.  The Northern Territory road trains can
> move vast quantities of anything, faster and cheaper
> than any 'proposed' rail link.
>
> The road trains and the upgraded Stuart Highway are all
> ready in place and grossly *underutilised*.
>
> The Tarcoola to Alice Springs line is also grossly
> underutilised.  NRC now only run 5 days per week.!
>
> ----Terry Burton
> Alice Springs NT
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