The local paper here today quotes that the RTA are about to spend $500,000 on an electronic sign in Taren Point to advise motorists of road conditions on the Captain Cook Bridge.
Jesus wept. Half a mil for a friggin sign! Just another example of the ridiculous cost of infrastructure in Australia. Any wonder the government's broke.
The chances of any government committing the sort of money required for a HSR link are less than zero.
Even if they did, the state bureaucracy would probably require the rolling stock to change at Albury because they couldn't decide what gauge to make the line.