NOW do you think there will be more interest in a national rail system?

Question

NOW do you think there will be more interest in a national rail system?

Answer 1

National Rail, water????

Where are you?

If you are in Australia, a National Rail System is now an exhausted pipe dream - too far - tyranny of distance gets Australia all the time - too bl@@dy expensive.

Look, eventually people will not be able to afford to commute by car, and will have to work closer to home, or use public transport - trains, trams, LNG/LPG Buses (like in Sydney), hybrid and electric cars (if they develop enough to overcome our tyranny of distance).

I commute 120 km each way each day; by trains and tram, and patronage has increased immensely, almost day by day as the cost of fuel (petrol/gas) sky-rockets.

I saw a beautiful postcard at the weekend which showed the whole of Eurpoe superimposed over Australia, and at a guess, only 40% of the giant dry brown land down under was covered by the colours of all the countries of Europe COMBINED.

if you are in Oz, a national rail system will take years to implement/re-implement.  Just think of we used to have decades ago - almost all gone, now.  Infrastructure in ruins.....

Answer 2

Yes, I think there will be.  But the oil companies and the car manufacturers in Detroit (with help from the airlines) will see to it that it doesn't get built.

Answer 3

that depends... how long will the new water energy be kept surpressed by our government?