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Originally Posted by Delphinus
Inter-town roading upgrade is just another sticking plaster, and wont really help anything in the long term.
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NO argument about it being a sticking plaster, but the current thought-pattern seems to be "Spend money with immediate/short-term benefit realisation rather then plan for initially higher costs over a longer time to implement realising lower cost and greater benefit over the long term". From what I've observed that applies through the government and corporate sectors equally well.
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Originally Posted by Delphinus
Also, is it strictly necessary at this stage to upgrade the existing rail system to that degree, or can it be utilised in its current form (or with slight upgrade) to ease some of the load that is currently on trucks and the road? Then move people over slowly when they realise how good it is?
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The problem is unless we get our own trains designed and built, yes, it is strictly necessary to upgrade to that degree, as one of the biggest issues Transrail has is limited supply - of trains and carriages - as the international standards tend to be for wider tracks, thicker gauge rails and larger tunnels. That all needs to be addressed before we can get rail to the standard that you're after.