http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/brendan-lyon/ Brendan Lyon is the Chief Executive of Infrastructure Partnerships Australia – Australia’s peak infrastructure body. He serves on the expert reference group for the High Speed Rail Study; and on the Federal Government’s Infrastructure Finance Working Group. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/First-build-the-rail-corridors-then-the-fast-trains/ The concept of high speed rail travel was dismissed by 19th century scientist Professor Dionysius Lardner, who warned that “passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia”. The passage of time (and the development of physics) has proved Lardner wrong, with the proliferation of extensive high speed rail networks on every inhabited continent - except for Australia. That’s not to say it has not been considered here. Far from it. Australia has been through at least three serious considerations of High Speed Rail (HSR) in the past 30 years. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Brendan Lyon) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/First-build-the-rail-corridors-then-the-fast-trains/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/First-build-the-rail-corridors-then-the-fast-trains/#item6474 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:50:12 +0000 Brendan Lyon | Author bios | The Punch