AIRPORT TRANSPORT LINK

Dear morons,

You know who you are.  You are the multi-generational empty headed pontificators dealing with our much needed ‘airport transport link’.  You are expert at lots of talk and bluster and empty ‘just before election’ political promises but in actual fact, achieve zip.  In my opinion you should be held responsible for decades of obfuscation arising from rhetoric which should be castigated at all levels.  You are incapable of strategic thought preferring to wallow around in minutia whilst proclaiming ‘look at me I’m working hard for you’.  What drivel!

Let me be plain.  There are several key issues which need to be discussed and certain priorities which need to be addressed for the benefit of our collective future.  This is NOT about just laying a few kilometres of track joining Melbourne to the airport as that would be dysfunctional, shallow, noisy, environmentally negative and would fail on every count to advance Victoria.  This is minutia thinking at its worst.

Get your minds out of the everyday and think tourism, pizzazz, low impact, efficiency and ‘wow’.

There is a proven technology called MAGLEV which could zip along at say 600 kmph making the onerous journey from the city to airport take about 3 minutes [slight exaggeration].  Now suspend that magic carpet from overhead low/zero impact stanchions and we have a high tech monorail.  Passengers would be ‘flying’ above the ground.  Wow!

This monorail would be a tourist hit and would put Melbourne on the map as a tech driven city dealing with the future.  Almost zero impact, environmentally fantastic, low noise, fast, exciting and would lob in above ground at Tullamarine in a very showy ‘look at me’ manner.  Wahoo!!   Beam me up Scotty!!

This is a strategic view which encompasses almost zero environmental impact with a ‘let’s put Melbourne on the map’ and lots of WOW.  If you are old enough, think ‘The Jetsons’ cartoon series which was set in 2062.

Always in hope ..

Note that if we weren’t paying circa $30m a day in interest on Victoria’s Labor debt we could build this in a few weeks.

Jon Langevad