DEAR News Of The Area,
HARRY Creamer’s dream of a foreign funded high-speed rail for Australia (25 July) sounds like another eye-wateringly, never-ending, expensive AUKUS scheme.
Australia simply doesn’t have the population to support high-speed rail projects.
Even if most city-to-city travel was taken by rail, there still won’t be enough usage to pay for the steep operating costs.
A less expensive and more realistic dream is for new rail corridors with double tracks running in straight lines and without steep inclines.
These lines would be electrified with high voltage to enable trains to operate at speeds up to 200 kilometres an hour.
Essentially the trains would offer frequent services such as the 46 services offered each day from London to Liverpool.
Freight trains would be excluded from this new rail corridor and express trains could run city to city with local trains moved to sidings for the express services.
“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one” (With apologies to John Lennon).
Regards,
Geoff RICHARDSON,
Port Macquarie.
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