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Fast, faster, farce? SEQ train spin goes off the rails (www.brisbanetimes.com.au)
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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The federal body’s publicly available evaluation of the business case says trains will average 50km/h for all-station services and 73km/h for express.

Not exactly high-speed rail, is it?

“The Faster Rail name was a bit of a way of fooling people,” says Robert Dow, from advocacy group Rail Back on Track.

“And in the case of the Logan-Gold Coast Faster Rail, it certainly fooled a lot. They’re not getting anything like 160km/h.

Even the place names “Logan-Gold Coast” in the title are a tad misleading: the upgrades stop short of downtown Gold Coast by almost 50 kilometres. Finding a way around this, the government sometimes adds in brackets “Kuraby to Beenleigh”.

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Doesn't surprise me. I highly doubt we'll ever have proper fast rail with trains regular going fast enough to count as fast rail in my lifetime

[–] austin@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Who knows? Maybe a wealthy man might come to your town and start singing a monorail song.