Question bout luas v Ozzie rail

joseph brand

I know this not belong here but know more peeps will see it.




my Da told me he read somewhere recently that in Australia, there was a track built which is bout 2,900 miles long and has 90 bridges(i think), and cost half cost of unfinished Luas???


Anyone hear or read bout this??

davej

ok i thought you were going to say something about ozzie osbourne and light rail..

oh well.

davej

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by joseph brand
Anyone hear or read bout this??

i read about this in the paper last week. goes to show that we seem to like throwing money away. disgraceful :mad:

Crash

*** though its a railway across the backarse of oz. f all de-construction etc.

its still a huge difference but NOT quite as huge as they make it out to be

sionnach

i think it was for the same price tb h

honeymonster

yea but you have to remember that stuff cost less in the desert

Victor

And the Ozzie price doesn't include the trains.

aodh_rua

I read that too. Here's another - the Luas is going to cost around €1 billion. In Hong Kong, they built a new airport, on a new island, with a new rail and highway system (that was also built on reclaimed land), the world's biggest train station and everything that goes with it for €4.5 billion. Something is seriously f****d up, when we spend a quarter of that on a few trams.

Victor

Originally posted by aodh_rua
In Hong Kong, they built a new airport, on a new island, with a new rail and highway system (that was also built on reclaimed land), the world's biggest train station and everything that goes with it for €4.5 billion.

Ah, but they did it with Chinese labour and tradesmen earning €20 a week

aodh_rua

Originally posted by Victor
Ah, but they did it with Chinese labour and tradesmen earning €20 a week

Maybe we could suggest that to the Rail Procurement Agency :-)