What does it take to make high speed rail a reality?Constructing an Australian high speed rail network has been floated for over a quarter of a century but every time the idea surfaces it gets muddied by the same issues — particularly airline opposition and geological and environmental concerns, writes John Thompson.
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Melbourne + two airports + rail = $$$$
There are clear signs in today’s media that Melbourne is getting closer to playing its airport-rail corridor cards. It needs to plan wisely from the start, warns Ben Sandilands.
DJs, drugs and Ed Hardy: riding the Iron Paprika
We both secretly harboured a Romance Of Rail-style fantasy of trench-coats and dining cars, hatboxes and demure chat, the countryside wooshing by outside in a blur of unexperienced life. But travelling on a 12-hour train from Zurich to Budapest wasn’t quite that, writes Jenny Kaldor.
Why rail projects in NSW cost three times as much as they should
The gurus at Infrastructure Australia should be asking some hard questions because something seems terribly wrong with the cost of rail construction in NSW, writes Gavin Gatenby.
