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HIGH SPEED RAIL:

A FUTURE AUSTRALIA

Bryan Nye, CEO ARA

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Congestion is crippling our roads and skies

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Domestic travel today

• 152 million trips on our East Coast in 2009

• 16.7 million registered motor vehicles

• 430 flights into Syd daily from high speed locations

• Melb – Syd = 3rd busiest air corridor globally

• Annually:

- 4.4 million on 30,999 planes fly Bris – Syd

- 8.2 million on 53,633 planes fly Melb – Syd

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60 % of our

population

lives in

1% of Australia

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23,000,000 today

39,879,159 in 2065 Source: ABS

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8 million in Sydney

What does

39,879,159 look like?

8.2 million in Melbourne

4.9 million in Brisbane

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Forecast travel demands

• 355 million East Coast trips forecast

by 2065 without high speed rail

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Our cities, highways and airports are congested

today.

In 2065, without alternatives our East Coast will

be gridlocked.

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Without alternatives by 2065

• Airports will need additional runways

• Sydney will need a 3rd airport

• The 800km Hume Hwy will need duplicating

again

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Future proofing our nation

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HIGH SPEED RAIL IS THE SOLUTION

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HIGH SPEED RAIL WILL

• Connect country and city

• Open up regional Australia and determine how

Australians live in the future

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Creating new living circles…

Shrinking Australia’s size

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HIGH SPEED RAIL = A FUTURE AUSTRALIA

FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

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