[Greg M]

Originally Posted by Justin Lazaroff

Interesting. But don't CityLink have some sort of exclusivity for transport to Tullamarine with their freeways which is one of the reasons an airport rail link was knocked back?

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...-23349,00.html

['Transrapid claims the monorail would link Melbourne's two airports and travel at speeds of up to 250km/h suspended above the track using magnetic levitation technology, cutting the travelling time from the CBD to Frankston to just 12 minutes.']

Earth to Transrapid??? Are you there???
The article can only be a PR stunt, the Germans have been experimenting with maglev for ages....

Munich was going to build a maglev train as a solution to airport to city woes, I have done the 45+ minute, train trip a number of times, and can confirm it is needed.

However the idea has become unstuck when the price tag increased from €1.85 to €3.4 billion for the 40 kilometre track...

http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/03/maglev-project.html

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbi...n_id=rss_daily