If anyone has travelled recently between Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane you surely would have noticed a few things.
One is that no matter how long the cabbies have to wait in the queue we still have to wait in line for a ridiculuous amount of time before we can get a taxi. Might seem like a small thing but surely somebody can work out how to fix this (especially in Sydney).
Secondly and more importantly (with no disrespect to the cabbies) most domestic flights these days, particularly between the cities mentioned above, are delayed. I am sure somebody has statistics to prove me otherwise but I think most of you will know what I am talking about.
There are simply too many planes in the sky and we do not have the resources (or possibly space) to support it.
A sincere thankyou to Virgin Blue in particular for making air travel affordable but what this has done (certainly not blaming Virgin) is made it (or making it) almost unmanageable to book a flight between the 3 main destinations in Australia and be reasonably sure you will get there on time.
The very simple solution is to build a fast train network between the main capital cities.
More than ever we need a major infrastructure initiative in Australia. Yes it will cost a lot of money but probably no less than the Government looks like it will spend in the near future on propping up retail spend.
I also think given the right proposal you would have many an astute private investor wanting a piece of the pie.
We are not talking about a Simpsons style monorail but a genuine solution to what are growing issues within our economy.
It is nice to see from the link above that it is at least on the Government’s agenda but I really think the idea of a fast train out of Sydney deserves to be more of a priority. Surely it just makes sense.
