Rail link rumoured for Bungendore, Jerrabomberra and Canberra

I don’t what drugs these politicans are taking or lack of taking, just wish that they would get it straight.

At a meeting with Jerrabomberra Residents tonight, Queanbeyan City mayor Frank Pangello said that they didn’t want the Rail link to go ahead as it would cause to many problems.

Not only Gungahlin but Lawson under the naval Comms towers, Belconnen, will probably be a major defence housing site.

Lets get this straight, the current travel time between Queanbeyan and Bungendore is 30 minutes by modern fast speed trains. The Defence HQ is about halfway between the two, so lets say it would take 15 minutes to get there. Then add another 10 minutes to Jerrabomberra. 25 minutes folks. About the time it takes to drive between the two. Of course you dont have to commute to to a train station first. I doubt that light rail could do the trip as easily – light being the operative word; i.e. not enough grunt.

Of course, you would want to maximise the number of people using the train from Jerrabomberra to the HQ. So you would run maximum load trains, once a day from Jerra. How many of the 750 staff who work there would a) start at the same time in the morning and b) choose to live in Jerra? 50? And if they payed a non-subidised fare it would cost them about $10 one-way (Countrylink website). Not making sense. But of-course the rail freaks say extend the service (i.e. more carriages) going to Canberra, with extensions to Russell and Civic and the Gungahlin? I’v heard this one before.

Pangello should stop playing with his 12′ Hornby train set and go back to the Tarantella.

Yes, Frank Pangallo is Qbn Mayor. Palerang Shire is based in Bungendore and Braidwood. It is not part of Queanbeyan Shire, more’s the pity. Palerang is broke, and is soaking the residents, many of whom consume NO council services. It’s a joke.

The rail line is on the official plan for the site (which I can see from here), and makes sense. They are touting Gunghalin as the place for many of these people to live though, which means Macs Reef Road and Bungendore will cop the traffic. Local roads will struggle with the volume, they are already pretty busy.

“Better still, start a rumour that Defence is paying for it and they probably will.”

Just add it to the bill for the (Not So) Super Seasprites.

Better still, start a rumour that Defence is paying for it and they probably will.

a sensible proposal – even without finer detail.

If the rail service – and light rail would be perfect for this proposal – terminated at canberra station, there are a lot of apartments in kingston that defence personnel moving to canberra could live in and commute from.

and leave their car at home.

Good call Unbeliever. Not having some sort of standardised service is just crazy. I think most people would be happy to pay 3 bucks for a border crossing to either Woden or Civic, then jump onto the Action network from there.

Pangello is only QBN mayor ?

“Palerang Councillors 2004-2008

The following Councillors were elected for the 2004-2008 term.

Cr Jim Maclachlan – Mayor”
Quote from the website http://www.palerang.nsw.gov.au/council/1551/2692.html

I agree with VB, the bus service in Qbn is crap. Once I had to catch it to Qbn and it went through every street (at least it felt like that)in Manuka/Kingston and cost a packet.

Here’s an idea for Mayor Pangello – get rid of the ‘unique’ Qbn bus service and get an agreement in place for Action to service that side of the border too. It’s rediculous to have two seperate service, just because of the border. Is this pre-1901? Is anyone in any doubt that the ACT is the economic centre for the region including Qbn? So why duplicate a service? A poor duplication at that.

Action could enter into an agreement to receive the subsidy for its NSW services. And automatically ACT-Qbn would be $3 (or whatever it is now on Action). Problem solved.

Anyone ever seen that lean to house near the rail line near the bridge just before the round about (coming from Hume) near Jerra on Lanyon Rd/Tharwa Drv. Always wanted to go investigate that but been too lazy.

WHAT A JOKE!!!!!!!!

Firstly ever been on one of those steam specials up to Cooma? The line is rickity as hell with white-anted sleepers and slow speeds. There is about a 10 minute delay in Queanbeyan when the train from Cooma joins the line to Goulburn, doing things with signals and permissions. Then that 19th century travel up the Molonglo Gorge that even the proponents of the Very Fast Train said had to be avoided.

So unless tens (hundred?) of millions are spend in replacing the line to defence HQ, who in their right mind would drive to the Jerrbombera train station and then catch a very slow train to Defence HQ, when they can hop onto the Queanbeyan Ring Road and be there in 15 minutes?

Kill this rail nutter idea now!

If he can make it fly with enough demand and effective economics than good on him.

Although as a Jerrabomberra resident myself I personally be a lot happier with a bus service that went to ANYWHERE in Canberra. To catch the bus to Civic from the bus stop nearest my house costs $9.20 and almost 2 hours. Each way.

Yeah, it really makes sense to drive half way across Canberra to the railway station so you can catch a train to Bungendore.