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

[mauried@commslab.gov.au (Maurie Daly)]

In article <37f91cd8.0@kastagir.senet.com.au> "Tom Jones" <jonest@senet.com.au> writes:
>From: "Tom Jones" <jonest@senet.com.au>
>Subject: Re: Alice Springs to Darwin line, but wait, there is more.!
>Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:29:36 +0930

>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!


Why , we have a railway line between Melb and Sydney, and 80% of all the land 
based freight goes by road , not rail.
Simply having a railway line between two places is no guarantee that anyone 
will use it in preferance to road.

MD