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> Their geography is actually fantastic for it their demographic sparsity on the other hand, is not fantastic for it. You want high usage for rail. Unfortunat
by chii 4y ago
> Their geography is actually fantastic for it
their demographic sparsity on the other hand, is not fantastic for it.
You want high usage for rail. Unfortunately, there's not really enough people travelling to make it a profitable venture imho. Between sydney and melbourne, it's _just_ barely in the range for a flight, and so a rail will not beat it on convenience.
But there's no destination closer!
- UberFly 4y agoYou are apparently being too rational with this answer. You are right. You can't spend 60 billion for something that 500 people a day will use when planes already do it for less.
- panick21_ 4y agoHaving something that is incredibly useful doesn't have to be profitable. High speed rail is infrastructure that will serve you well for literally the next 100+ years. And as you improve your local rail network and amount of connections to that high speed rail, its a no brainer.
- nl 4y agoThere's literally an episode of the satirical comedy "Utopia" about how this is untrue and yet keeps getting raised every election.