There are issues on which you may wish to influence others and they may wish to influence you. There is out-of-date and mistaken conventional wisdom of which you may need to be aware. Introduction There is general acceptance amongst politians, businessmen, and technical experts that the Australian population will double from 24 m to 48m […]
The West Coast Indian Railway
The story of the new railway built along the west coast of India is fascinating in view of the need to estimate the construction time of High Speed Rail (HSR) along the Australian east coast. In the Labor Government’s 2013 HSR Report construction of HSR between Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane was to take 35 years […]
High Speed Rail Patronage
Introduction One of the beliefs that some people count against High Speed Rail (HSR) is that the population and rail patronage in Australia are too small for HSR to be viable. They are mistaken. The Australian population has increased remarkably quickly, trebling since WW2 and growing substantially in the latest 25 years. It is projected […]