Why do they always make small towns bigger instead of starting new ones ? Don't these planners realise that the bigger the town the more costly to Taxpayers in every which way ?
Society is already paying far too high a price for rabbit warren existence !

individual: This is how new ground level train lines are laid down in a modern western country- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccPj6QspRR

sorry, link in last post was copied incorrectly, it should have been this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccPj6QspRRI

Absolutely amazing, those that design and build such machines deserve
a good reward.

Bazz my son has been doing some work for a local trucking company. They have regular runs to Cairns Melbourne, & most places in between. They carry a lot of small to pretty large boats, caravans, horse floats & similar & bring hay back from the north.

Evidently they kill the rail in freight rates.

When I was in Wide Bay area we had a couple of bad years. We were bringing hay in from Eidsvold & Monto, at first by rail. However rail became just too expensive. It cost more for freight than the hay.

We were all busy people, but decided to share the work of driving out in a 6 tonner once each a month to get the hay. The saving was so great it was the only sensible thing to do.

thinkabit,
Yes, that's amazing. All we need now is machinery like that to build Mono Rails. Imagine the money & land & time saved not having to build bridges, over-passes, etc etc.
Gap Year servers could go ahead & whipper snip the patches for the pylons !

ps. Do you think Australian Unions could be persuaded not to sabotage efforts to start infrastructure development ?