it will continue to grow if the service is reasonable and inexpensive -- it should be integrated into existing train network and include stops along the way. i reckon skybus is a great service, but i am politically biased towards governments that acknowledge the importance of PT to civil society and act accordingly. I've caught the SkyBus only once from the airport. It was pretty good, and then I caught the train home from SC. But to me, the problem with SkyBus is that it's a bus. Less comfort, less room, more noise, annoyingly narrow if it's busy and you have big bags, start stop of traffic and lights etc. Wahhh? I guess so. But I argue for a train for the comfort, and the reliability in terms of not getting stuck on the freeway due to an accident. That always makes me nervous when going to the airport. A train wouldn't have these worries for me. I think when many people envisage an airport train for Melbourne, they think of Hong Kong et. al. with one or two stops, high speed and reliability. It's a pipe dream for Melbourne isn't it. By the way, can I use Myki on skybus? Now that would be handy. Having to line up at the booth for a Skybus ticket is so 1994. Melbourne trains have 200 million plus annual ridership. Any well thought out project (i.e. not Avalon) will have enough riders to justify itself with ridership like that. I think all