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[Oracle]

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Cyprus to do feasibility study for light railway

* Eyeing link between Nicosia and two main coastal towns

NICOSIA, April 13 (Reuters) - Cyprus is investigating the possibility of building a railway network to link the island's two main coastal towns with the capital, in a bid to ease traffic chaos on the roads.

Cyprus will conduct a feasibility study on a railway network. The study, which is expected to cost 300,000 euros, has a completion deadline of April 2011.

"The EU is proposing the idea of having some other modes of transport, which we don't have in Cyprus, to promote the idea of trans-European transport networks," said Makis Constantinides, the permanent secretary at the communication and works ministry. The ministry said it hoped to complete the tender process in the next four months.

The proposed network would traverse Cyprus, from the capital Nicosia in the centre of the island to the coastal town of Larnaca in the southeast and Limassol in the southwest.

Cyprus currently has no rail transportation. Under British colonial rule, it had a railway between 1905 and 1951.

[Svetlana]

We do not want any of your remnants of Colonial Rule in Pafos, so we are pleased to be excluded from the network

In any case the taxi drivers would have blown up the lines if they came here!

[Tim Drayton]

We do not want any of your remnants of Colonial Rule in Pafos, so we are pleased to be excluded from the network

In any case the taxi drivers would have blown up the lines if they came here!

Don't you still have caravans with camels in Pafos?

[Jerry]

Now this is a light railway:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcMZWjMy ... re=related

[Sotos]

300.000 euros just for the study?? I don't think we need to spend all that money to realize that buses can do the same job cheaper!

[sniper]

300.000 euros just for the study?? I don't think we need to spend all that money to realize that buses can do the same job cheaper!

i agree. but wouldn't it be more feasible to extent the operation hours of the busses to operate 24 hours and offer a few more trips throughout the day, as opposed to just the one a day.

[Oracle]

300.000 euros just for the study?? I don't think we need to spend all that money to realize that buses can do the same job cheaper!

i agree. but wouldn't it be more feasible to extent the operation hours of the busses to operate 24 hours and offer a few more trips throughout the day, as opposed to just the one a day.

But trains would be faster (and greener) than buses anyway.

Personally, I want to see it extended to Polis.

[cyprusgrump]

300.000 euros just for the study?? I don't think we need to spend all that money to realize that buses can do the same job cheaper!

You are quite right Sotos...

But the EU doesn't work that way...

EU says trains are good and buses bad. therefore we will spend €300,000 on a pointless survey to which the conclusion has already been reached...

Then we will spend millions on a train service which is unnecessary and will cause huge disruption and environmental destruction... just like the wind farm...

[cyprusgrump]

300.000 euros just for the study?? I don't think we need to spend all that money to realize that buses can do the same job cheaper!

i agree. but wouldn't it be more feasible to extent the operation hours of the busses to operate 24 hours and offer a few more trips throughout the day, as opposed to just the one a day.

But trains would be faster (and greener) than buses anyway.

If you could build them by some magic process that didn't include thousands of tonnes of materials and vast energy in the process then of course you would be right...

[Oracle]

300.000 euros just for the study?? I don't think we need to spend all that money to realize that buses can do the same job cheaper!

i agree. but wouldn't it be more feasible to extent the operation hours of the busses to operate 24 hours and offer a few more trips throughout the day, as opposed to just the one a day.

But trains would be faster (and greener) than buses anyway.

If you could build them by some magic process that didn't include thousands of tonnes of materials and vast energy in the process then of course you would be right...

On initial outlay perhaps, but the benefits of long term use (so long as these aren't derailed again) far outweigh those considerations.

Unless, you are suggesting we should stop investing in the future?