Australia's $135BN HIGH SPEED Railway Explained — Transcript

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1. 0:00So, one of the most ambitious
2. 0:01infrastructure projects in Australian
3. 0:03history is currently underway. This is
4. 0:06the country's new high-speed railway.
5. 0:08From Brisbane, it'll travel south and
6. 0:11connect Sydney to the capital city,
7. 0:12Canberra, and then go on to Melbourne,
8. 0:14stopping at eight other regional centers
9. 0:17along the way. The route is going to
10. 0:18touch 80% of the entire population and
11. 0:21costs more than 135
12. 0:24billion Australian dollars, which is why
13. 0:26it's being built in phases. Phase one is
14. 0:28going to be 194 km and cost a far more
15. 0:32reasonable, if still eye-watering, 90
16. 0:35billion dollars. It'll be this section
17. 0:37right here between Sydney and Newcastle,
18. 0:39and it'll cut a 2 and 1/2 hour journey
19. 0:41down to just under an hour. Now, of that
20. 0:44194 km route, 115 of the kilometers are
21. 0:48going to be in tunnels, which is why
22. 0:50it's going to be a very expensive
23. 0:52construction process. These trains will
24. 0:54reach maximum speeds of up to 320 km/h,
25. 0:58although that's going to be limited to
26. 1:00200 km/h in tunnels. The proposed route
27. 1:03is going to have six stations:
28. 1:05Newcastle, [music] Lake Macquarie,
29. 1:07Central Coast, Central Sydney,
30. 1:09Parramatta, and Western Sydney
31. 1:11International Airports. The project is
32. 1:13set to be shovel-ready by 2028 and
33. 1:16welcoming its first passengers by 2039.
34. 1:19But, there's been a lot of debate around
35. 1:20whether this part of the route should be
36. 1:22the first bit that gets built. You can
37. 1:24learn more about Australia's epic plan
38. 1:26to build a high-speed railway over in
39. 1:28our full video.