Tourism is meant to underpin Tassie's economy. The failure to facilitate heritage/tourist rail groups exploiting the economic potential of our unused and operational lines sheets back to Governmental and Bureaucratic intransigence. We were asked to wait while Tasrail caught up with the backlog of track works, and installed satisfactory safeworking. We have waited. Now political leadership is needed, including the State underpinning a collective insurance cover for all passenger operations, including:
- TR operatiinal lines
- Hobart - Bridgewater heritage/transit operations
- hi-rail and low-speed, low axleload operations on unused lines.
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Paul Vonwiller
9 years ago
Too many disused rail lines in Tasmania are being turned into bike tracks called rail trails, the government maintains right of way will be preserved incase of future use but we all know once rails are lifted they won't be reinstated. We have a long proud history of rail in Tasmania and we need to preserve it, making rail trails is doing the exact opposite of this, there is the potential for misuse of these rail trails especially given the close proximity of some to farmland, the potential of it attracting people with malicious intentions is high, bothering or harming livestock, vandalism or theft of farm property and equipment, potential risks from people taking dangerous chemicals from these properties to make homemade explosives or drugs, neither of which we need in our society. Existing trails are under-utilised as it is, they'll end up becoming overgrown and vandalised, however if tourist trains are given clearance to operate on these lines then the economic benefits for most regions would be endless, a fully loaded tourist train could bring in far more revenue than cyclists on any given day. Why not build the trail alongside the tracks? It seems like a fair compromise to me, also what if large company sets up shop in one of these small towns and wants to move their goods by rail, do these towns miss out on the revenue just to please a few cyclists? Government needs to look at the bigger picture and think about future needs. Please sign and share this petition to help try and preserve our disused rail lines.
I look forward to your response.
Yours Sincerely,
Paul Vonwiller
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Anonymous
9 years ago
I only support rail trails on lines with no possibility of reopening. Any libe that may reopen for revenue or tourist service should remain as a railway line.
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Anonymous
9 years ago
Government needs to support heritage rail all over the system.
Tourism is meant to underpin Tassie's economy. The failure to facilitate heritage/tourist rail groups exploiting the economic potential of our unused and operational lines sheets back to Governmental and Bureaucratic intransigence. We were asked to wait while Tasrail caught up with the backlog of track works, and installed satisfactory safeworking. We have waited. Now political leadership is needed, including the State underpinning a collective insurance cover for all passenger operations, including: - TR operatiinal lines - Hobart - Bridgewater heritage/transit operations - hi-rail and low-speed, low axleload operations on unused lines.
Too many disused rail lines in Tasmania are being turned into bike tracks called rail trails, the government maintains right of way will be preserved incase of future use but we all know once rails are lifted they won't be reinstated. We have a long proud history of rail in Tasmania and we need to preserve it, making rail trails is doing the exact opposite of this, there is the potential for misuse of these rail trails especially given the close proximity of some to farmland, the potential of it attracting people with malicious intentions is high, bothering or harming livestock, vandalism or theft of farm property and equipment, potential risks from people taking dangerous chemicals from these properties to make homemade explosives or drugs, neither of which we need in our society. Existing trails are under-utilised as it is, they'll end up becoming overgrown and vandalised, however if tourist trains are given clearance to operate on these lines then the economic benefits for most regions would be endless, a fully loaded tourist train could bring in far more revenue than cyclists on any given day. Why not build the trail alongside the tracks? It seems like a fair compromise to me, also what if large company sets up shop in one of these small towns and wants to move their goods by rail, do these towns miss out on the revenue just to please a few cyclists? Government needs to look at the bigger picture and think about future needs. Please sign and share this petition to help try and preserve our disused rail lines. I look forward to your response. Yours Sincerely, Paul Vonwiller
I only support rail trails on lines with no possibility of reopening. Any libe that may reopen for revenue or tourist service should remain as a railway line.
Government needs to support heritage rail all over the system.