Aidan, you give the game away. The existing Cooks River Goods yard can not cope with the volumes. With the center of Sydney's population now west of Parramatta, a duel line to a new terminal at Moorebank along with the existing yard at Chullora is the way to go. Nothing efficient about the existing system where trucks can queue for hours to pick up a container. Then hit the surround already congested roads.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-01-21/truckies-lash-out-over-patricks-terminal-delays/2579676

Unfortunately Is Mise and Hasbeen are talking from a point of ignorance on this subject, and Beach has nothing of value to add, just one of his usual anti Greens rants.

Green dreams. Costed accordingly.

If the Greens were serious about transport problems in Sydney and other capitals like Melbourne and Brisbane they would NOT be proposing open door immigration and citizenship for economic migrants. They would be highly critical of the present 200,000 pa migrant intake and totally opposed to present ethnic and business lobbying to increase to 250,000 pa.

Off goes the bumbling booby's hat, and on goes the bigoted raciest hat. Beach how many hats do you wear? Certainly no Green hats! I thought you were there hiding under the table whenever Greens policy is being discussed, seems you were missing in action when transport policy was up for an airing! Watermelon Greens, Watermelon Greens, Watermelon Greens, talk about a cracked record! But please carry on, water off a ducks back to me.

Paul1405,

That is the problem with the Greens isn't it? The Greens can get away with a gaggle of idealistic pronouncements posing as policy. The 'fact-finding' ABC and others never hold Greens policies up to scrutiny. Maybe they are thinking what is the point, where the Greens are entertainment and not serious prospects for government.

It is sufficient for the Greens to mount the podium pretending to have the high moral ground, examples being on economic migrants, transport and water (and energy) However, there is no linking between the policies, which can work against each other and be diametrically opposed.

The Greens have the luxury of always talking as though each of their 'policies' operates in a vacuum and there are no other commitments for government spending.

The Greens have idealistic and ideological wish lists, not policy. They know they will never be required to implement their 'policy' platform, nor be accountable for the likely (read as certain) negative consequences and failures.

No matter what was Greens policy, Beach with his extreme anti Greens bias would be denigrating it. I simply say, below is NSW Greens Transport policy in full, and be the judge for yourself.

http://nsw.greens.org.au/policies/nsw/transport

No one can be expected to agree with every aspect of any particular policy of any political party. I am not a Liberal Party supporter but there are aspects of their transport policy I would agree with, a second rail crossing under Sydney Harbour is Liberal policy and I agree. This Beach character is so blinkered and so rabid anti Green his opinions should be construed as less than worthless.

p/s Beach also likes to present himself as a fair minded moderate, yeah and Attila The Hun was a bleeding heart liberal. LOL

Well that certainly sounds like a Green policy.

Lets triple handle all the stuff coming off a ship, & ship it all round the place, often passing it's final destination on the way.

If a third year high school kid suggested such foolishness, they would get a big fail. However a green can seriously suggest such rubbish, & think they are clever,

Fortunately it is all pie in the sky stupidity.