Very fast train in the eastern states worth considering

Comments on Gary Jones “A Very Fast Train after the election?” 10/06/2010, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/a-very-fast-train-after-the-election/story-e6frg6zo-1225877645958
VFT should be considered and be studied very carefully.

The government should openly conduct a bidding process to commission two initial studies and if the conclusions are positive then openly commission a feasibility study.

The NBN approach should never be repeated and must be avoided.

Irrespective a VFT or not, it is too important to just rely on some persons opinions even though some of them may be "experts".

Australia has built a rail line between Adelaide and Darwin. A VFT in the eastern densely populated areas should intuitively be more economical than the Adelaide Darwin track, given the population there is less than two million while in the east there are more than half of the nation’s population.