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Linto63 wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 8:40 am
Fleet Lists wrote: My opinion is that it should be Armchair Operators & Fantasy Networks where previous Parrahub threads have been. What do members think?
Agree, it's a pipe dream.
eddy wrote: Well there are over 37,000 people who looked at it and nobody ever looks in the fantasy section.
It's had 37,000 views, not been viewed by 37,000 different people.
Yep you are right about the views not people.

Why do you not think it is a serious proposal ?
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eddy wrote: Why do you not think it is a serious proposal ?
Is there any evidence that either a government agency or private sector developer is advancing its cause?
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Linto63 wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 9:51 am
eddy wrote: Why do you not think it is a serious proposal ?
Is there any evidence that either a government agency or private sector developer is advancing its cause?
They think in last century technology which is uneconomical because HSR cannot take an overnight container train due to maintenance.

Japanese maglev cannot take an overnight container train either so it too becomes uneconomical.

China may know how to drive tunnels but with only 1 cm clearance their maglev will never go 700 km/h.

America could use an international standard maglev after it is proven economical Sydney to Melbourne with passing stations at Canberra and Albury for daytime stops.

Germany is too small but still could participate with continual improvements in the TBM design.

It really needs an international standard designed by China, Japan and Australia for international maglev as we do not want a repeat of the different gauge joke.

I think China and Japan would love to participate in Parrahub to Melbourne to showcase the international guideway which many big countries would use also whacking up the Parrahub building would be good softpower for China.

It is easy for me to suggest this as I have no career to lose but it definitely is worth looking into while we can.
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So with nothing tangible to suggest that it is on the agenda, the suggestion that it be categorised as fantasy is correct.
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Linto63 wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 12:41 pm So with nothing tangible to suggest that it is on the agenda, the suggestion that it be categorised as fantasy is correct.
It may be fantasy to you but having 25 years underground and 25 years driving it is a huge increase in productivity for me and a few others.

May I add I saved the NSW government millions with a simple suggestion.
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This is interesting reading on carparks https://www.bouygues-construction.com/b ... citoyenne/
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This is the email I sent to China Daily

The Chinese airport maglev has more than 20,000 piles driven up to 60 meters in the soft ground and needs many computers to maintain the small one centimetre clearance.

It has been said if it is deep enough for long enough it turns to stone which is the easiest to tunnel through so to avoid surface cost and disruption perhaps a number of multi mode TBM may drive a single tunnel with passing stations for daytime use while allowing overnight container trains to move palletised freight between freight sidings much faster than trucks.

The pressure build up would be exhausted via the valves on each launch shaft allowing a breathable eleven psi which in turn lets the train go 700 km/h beating trucks by hours and earning sufficient to subsidise daytime passenger fares.

The world needs an international guideway designed by China, Japan and showcased between Sydney and Melbourne.

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At 13.30 it explains that most competition will come from planes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjUeSAhG37o
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As people older than 65 have reduced NDIS https://www.disabilitysupportguide.com. ... ort-system it may be good to build Parrahub designed for them with electric charging, wheelchair accessibility, set hot water etc. especially as they would prefer to be in their home rather than be in a retirement home.
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As diesel prices have soared so have prices in the bush which makes living in Sydney, Canberra, Albury and Melbourne just as cheap even with higher house prices.

At least you have many services, shops and jobs.
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Mark McGowan said in Canberra today that it costs four times as much to keep people in hospital as in their own home in which they would be happier.
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When I saw DHL bought out Cameron https://www.channelnews.com.au/dhl-buys ... tics-push/ it made me check out my numbers again and found I had made a huge mistake saying overnight trains would earn $20,000,000 per night when it should have been only $2,000,000 per night but compared to slow road transport I still believe it stacks up.

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Federal Labor wants to reduce inflation with productivity.

Parrahub would double the availability of homecare workers without a drivers licence.

Sydney to Melbourne freight sidings with overnight container trains that carry far more freight faster than any trucks.
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Earth is a beautiful planet and now is not the time for squabbling and as we need an international standard guideway that takes overnight container trains between big cities, saving many trucks and planes, maybe it could be showcased from Sydney to Melbourne by an international maglev team like I have suggested to Miss Maglev https://www.maglevboard.net/forum/viewt ... 7cbe#p1213
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Just watched China to Russia HSR that talks about freight trains on HSR lines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUL8XJdyLD8&t=323s

There are no true HSR that carry freight trains making planes more economical than passenger rail and that is why very big democracies do not have them but an overnight Sydney to Melbourne maglev that eliminates 5,000,000 tonnes of jet fuel and many of the 700,000 B doubles on the Hume would allow China to demonstrate its superior tunnelling, Japan to demonstrate its SC maglev experience and America to showcase its innovation for an international standard guideway.
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With a lot of rich Chinese trying to get out of China perhaps their government may let them build Parrahub if it is called the China building.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMGa75oU61Y
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America needs freedom of navigation and China does not want to be blockaded but perhaps they can cooperate with Chinese superior tunnels, Japanese SC maglev experience and American innovation to connect Sydney to Melbourne to showcase an overnight SC maglev container train for international use making the daytime fares cheaper than planes.

The slow Chinese maglev freight train that costs more to build and maintain due to the 1 centimetre clearance will not cut it in big democracies where it is cheaper to have a single 11 psi tunnel using SC maglev with 10 centimetre clearance and will carry passengers through the day.

Take a look at the foundations needed with only 1 cm clearance at 20 minutes here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jaH2YXqV28&t=2677s
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Labor housing https://www.alp.org.au/policies/safer-a ... le-housing.

5% of $10,000,000,000 p/a = $500,000,000 so 6,000 each year over 5 years @ $83,000 each and with the average block of land in Sydney $500,000 Labor must be building cheap units on existing housing commission blocks rather than letting families have them.

Many Sydney people would prefer sharing Parrahub units with huge ensuit bedrooms and company.
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60 minutes is right with some overnighters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b56MpwyrAhI especially if they have been up all day doing pickups.

It would be faster, cheaper, cleaner and safer with a 700 km/h overnight SC maglev container train connecting freight sidings at Sydney and Melbourne making daytime fares cheaper than planes.
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After watching the rise of Japanese watches https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... nese+watch it made me think about the best steam engine was the last and perhaps HSR will go the same way with maglev the future.
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Austroads have asked for input from many people for suggestions about the truck licence.
The C-RIS is out for comment until 28 October. Input and views are important, and all suggestions will be considered.
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=r ... nPHRZlHDvc

This is what I suggested.

With buses going electric let MR drivers drive a 6 wheel bus to allow a bigger battery.

Allow older drivers like myself to keep our licences a bit longer to just drive within 100 kilometres.

An underground 700 km/h overnight Sydney to Melbourne SC maglev container train that reduces daytime fares below planes and would carry freight quicker and cheaper than any truck while still making 1% profit.
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Japan is great at SC maglev but poor at tunnels where China is the reverse, as Australia is short of money and workers perhaps China could build Parrahub to Melbourne improving their methods with robotics and later Japan build a multipurpose international SC guideway that can take a 700 km/h overnight SC container train that earns $2m per night so they each keep their expertise.
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After watching Bill Shorten on TV https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-13/ ... /101413014 it made me think that as well as having charging points at the 20,000 parking spaces at Parrahub, every unit should be made disability friendly so one carer can have look after disabled people with an ensuit bedroom each where needed.
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After reading it is best to work out your income before trying to work out the cost, of which there has been nothing of this scale ever been built to compare, I sent this email off to the Premier where the NSW state government will buy a 40% share in some cases to relieve the housing shortage in Sydney.

Hi
There may be some older women who are eligible for your housing scheme where they can have friends or family share the huge Parrahub units while still keeping a growing asset to leave to children.
I know it is very big but it would relieve the Sydney housing shortage especially for older people who don’t want maintenance but do want company.
Disability friendly with many services once it is eventually connected to Canberra, Albury and Melbourne it would double in value.

Shopping centre area 20,000 m2 per floor x 112 floors = 2,240,000 m2 x $1,700/m2 = $3,808,000,000 p/a
Sale of 5,376 units = 5,376 @$2,000,000 = $10,752,000,000

Hopefully free 20,000 space carpark with no boom gate.
Regards Eddy

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Although there are women who want to pool their super to buy a commune it becomes hard when one leaves so I think it would be far better to have one owner.
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Saw Jim Chalmers on TV talking up the economy and it made me think the property within Church, Boundary, Inkermann and Lansdowne streets would never be cheaper than today and it would take a year and not cost much to do the excavation so the building would be finished when people buy units again.
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