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Is high speed rail our national boondoggle?

By Alan Davies - posted Wednesday, 13 April 2016


Tony: Jim!

Jim: The PM's very keen.

Tony: You've told the prime minister?!

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Jim: The backbenchers are restless. Seriously, he's gotta come up with some sort of 30-year vision in the next three weeks, or it's…

Tony: Gone?

Jim: Oh, he's back!

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Tony: Look, even with the craziest of assumptions – petrol at $7 a litre, airfares tripled, a congestion tax in all the capital cities… The numbers still don't stack up. There's no silver bullet.

Jim: Actually, that's a really good name.

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Jim: There must be something we can announce!

Tony: Yeah, well, we can't announce a feasibility study.

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Dr Alan Davies is a principal of Melbourne-based economic and planning consultancy, Pollard Davies Pty Ltd (davipoll@bigpond.net.au) and is the editor of the The Urbanist blog.

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