🍺 PUB TEST: How Do You Feel About High Speed Trains?

Do high speed trains pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Nation fast train between the Central Coast and Sydney right now,
especially on the M one now that it's been blocked
because of a bunch of metal that's been dropped from
a truck a little sharp.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
It's a shrapnel hopped.

Speaker 4 (00:14):
All the tires, hundreds of drivers with tires that are out.
What's going to happen? What a mess?

Speaker 3 (00:20):
And the fast train thing, I didn't even realize.

Speaker 5 (00:23):
I've just been immersed in it for all these years
because you see these artists, impressions and models, and you go,
that'd be nice.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
And they're all around the world. The bullet training in Japan,
it's so good.

Speaker 5 (00:32):
And then a current affair last night had a story
it's been forty years that we've been promised to have
a fast train.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Back then it was three billion dollars.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
But it's always going to be expensive.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Now it's thirty three billions.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Going to be expensive.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
And we've done it then so much better. It's all governments.

Speaker 5 (00:47):
Albow has promised us fast train, not once, not twice,
but thrice.

Speaker 6 (00:51):
On track implementing high speed rail in Australia so that
you can get from Sydney to Melbourne CBD to CBD
under three hours.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
That was under k Rudd.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Didn't happen?

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Did it then? As an election campaign and.

Speaker 6 (01:07):
If I'm elected Prime Minister, I want ours to be
the first government that actually gets work underway on high
speed right.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
I believe albo Osi is a fast train and Liberal
you guys have done it as well.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Malcolm Turnble said there was going to be a train
that should have it.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
It should be Australia. These huge distances, the huge expense
that we made us flying does make sense. So how
do you feel the fast trainers passed the pub test?

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Go for it?

Speaker 7 (01:32):
Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
I'm with Amanda.

Speaker 7 (01:33):
I have a new replacement and the time it takes
to take your shoes off and go through security, et cetera.
Get us on that fast train. Yeah, I'd love it.
Japan's trains are amazing.

Speaker 8 (01:45):
I'd rather catch a train than catch a plane.

Speaker 7 (01:47):
We've got to have it. Japan's had it for sixty
years and we can't build it. We should be a
trained of our film.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, I think definitely it would be a fantastic thing
to have because I currently go to Melbourne quite often
and had to get a fly and go through all
that drama.

Speaker 7 (02:03):
I am actually for having a fast train. The issue
is that the muppets of this country keep committing to
saying that they're going to put a fast train in
on this bick, put a fast train in that year.
Come on, guys, the fast train will work. Commit, make
it happen.

Speaker 8 (02:17):
Fast trained definitely passes the pub test, but we need
the politicians to buy into something that's generational and not
just for their tenure, like Bradford and the Harbor Bridge.
We need them to have some foresight instead of being
a bunch of four schemes.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Oh well, that's fair enough.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
I'm going to invest in not the infrastructure but model
fast train model.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
I'm going to go into prospectuses the world of Imagine
the money you'd make just the brochures.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Doing the brochures make a killing