Green Trains

Pandy, I would assume its because I had a run in with a blow in a couple of days ago and the admins haven’t been bothered to turn it off yet.

Why is it the VFT or nothing?

Can’t they upgrade the current tracks and at least give us a faster smoother ride to Sydney.

“Mag Lev is great but we don’t have the population to support it.”

I always thought MagLev used electricity to support it…

Although I guess a train running over a population would be a fairly smooth ride?

It’s the freight, stupid.
Mag Lev is great but we don’t have the population to support it.
There is an equation between rail and road feight that needs to be sorted out first, and the obvious answer is to first upgrade rail to tilt train efficiency, which will gradually allow road freight investment to decrease, with both systems specialising in particular freight (no more tankers on the roads)

And why are mine?
http://region.com.au/wp-admin/index.php

Why LM are all your posts being moderated?

I don’t agree that there is a bloated government bureaucracy – ever tried to get something done only to find that the only person in the department that is capable of signing or confirming, or whatever, just went on a 2 week holiday ?

I will agree that the systems in place are redundant, and there is very little backup. There are a lot of organisations that are doing some very stupid things. I would consider a more appropriate term for the public service at the moment to be ‘stretched to the limit’.

Yes, fresh for the Liberals to talk about infrastructure now, just a couple of weeks before an election, when they have been ignoring it for 11 long years (in favour of things like political advertising, a bloated government bureaucracy and vote buying middle class welfare tactics).

These fracked-up crazies would:

http://www.liberal.org.au/info/news/detail/20071105_Our2020PlanforSouthAustraliasTransportFuture.php

looked at this idea some time ago. Syd-Canb will cost somewhere around $3.5 billion. (Which is 1.5b more than John Howard has spent on advertising in the last ten years.) If Sydney based Pollies & travelling Public servants were forced to take the VF train it would reduce pollution and help keep the thing viable. If added to an expanded international airport, then Canberra would pick up a lot more tourist dollars. But then, what sort of crazy government puts money into infrastructure?