CEC Leader Craig Isherwood today renewed his call for the Australia government to build a state of the art magnetic levitation train system to develop our nation.
Mr Isherwood said, “After being stranded last weekend in the remotest city in the world, Perth, Western Australia, due to the ash cloud from a remote Chilean volcano, the reliance on deregulated air transport showed just how vulnerable our nation is to unforeseen or presently uncontrollable natural events and disasters from any part of the world.
“There were no real options, to leave Perth.
“Car travel to Melbourne is an uncomfortable 37 hours nonstop; bus travel about the same, if not longer; and only three passenger trains leave Perth in any one week, which when they do, still take at least three days! And sea travel, even though we are ‘girt by sea’—forget it.”
Mr Isherwood said, “When Australian parliamentarian and founder of the Commonwealth Bank, King O’Malley pioneered and built the Trans-Australian Railway from 1912-17, linking Adelaide to Perth, he brought to Australia the most modern rail track laying technology from the United States, and constructed a world-class railway to Perth thereby, breaking down an even worse tyranny of distance dominated by rough, unsealed roads.
“The American born O’Malley was inspired by the great developments under his then United States President Abraham Lincoln who built the east-west First Transcontinental Railroad of the United States providing the economic catalyst for the explosion of U.S. economic development and optimism in the wake of Lincoln’s victory over the Confederacy which the British had systematically nurtured and financed (including through buying all the South’s slave-produced cotton, 55% of total U.S. exports on the eve of the Civil War).
“O’Malley’s Trans-Australian Railway was wholly funded by the government owned Commonwealth Bank which O’Malley established on the model of the First National Bank of the United States, established by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, aide-de-camp to General George Washington in the Revolutionary War of 1776-1781. This vital new piece of railway infrastructure united Western and Eastern Australia, welding our nation precisely as the nation builder King O’Malley had intended.
“Today, we need to return to the same principles of National Banking and invest to become world leaders in building the latest and most modern magnetic levitation train systems, thereby making air travel between Australian cities a second option, not an only option.
“China has developed first generation magnetic levitation trains, trains that hover over steel tracks using magnets, that have achieved speeds of over 500 km/h, and currently have maglev trains in service now that average speeds of 251 km/h, having a top speed of 431 km/h.”
Mr Isherwood said, “Australia already boasts the record for longest and straightest section of railway in the world of 478 kilometres on the Trans-Australian Railway, so therefore using magnetic levitation technology it would be possible to look at speeds of second generation maglev trains in excess of 800 km/h—literally flying on the ground.
“Combine this with developing a network of maglev train systems similar to what Professor Lance Endersbee has proposed with his Australian Ring Rail proposal, which is a network of high-speed railways from Melbourne to Darwin, and back to Perth, then not only is the tyranny of distance smashed for travel within Australia, but we create new arteries for the physical economic development of our nation—the potential for new industries and even entire new cities in remote areas.
“Instead of three trains leaving Perth in any week, as is the case now, maglev trains, both freight and passenger, could leave Perth every few hours providing the economic life blood like blood within an artery. Moreover, we must already begin investing in evacuated tube transport where we can employ maglev technology in a vacuum tube; without air friction, speeds of thousands of kilometres per hour are possible.
“With a modicum of common sense, creativity and the intention to develop our nation—as opposed to the Crown’s genocidal intentions—we would not have to suffer the thrombosis of air travel when the air gets clogged!”
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