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Is high speed rail our national boondoggle?

By Alan Davies - posted Wednesday, 13 April 2016


Tony: The numbers just don't stack up.

Jim: You've gotta look beyond the numbers. Vision, Tony!

Tony: Jim, I…

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Jim: If we'd listened to the bean-counters, we never would have built the Snowy.

Tony: The Snowy was a white elephant!

Jim: Are you kidding me? The Snowy forged this nation!

Tony: But I don't think it's ever turned a profit.

Jim: Stop it. I'm not even gonna listen to that.

Tony: Environmentally it was a disaster!

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Jim: Hydroelectricity! I did a project on that at school!

Tony: It supplies, like, less than 1% of the grid.

Jim: Well, what about everything else the Snowy's given us? That mini-series.

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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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