standard SkyBus fare is $26 return). Thus those workers will be no better off with a train -- they might be worse off if the train can't match SkyBus's span of hours or frequency. And how do you get on the SkyBus at Moonee Ponds or Essendon or Kensington? And as Chris G points out SkyBus is expensive, uncomfortable and it gets caught in appalling freeway congestion. I'd add they have shouty advertising onboard, and you have to line up in a place at the airport where it is not smoke free (and I've had to give up my place in the line because of it). The SkyBus is rubbish public transport. Advocating for it over decent heavy suburban rail is thinking so small that it could possibly be discovered only at the Large Hadron Collider. Me I'd do both; having an airport service via Sunshine and Keilor and Airport West on the extant freight line, and I'd have a spur off the Craigieburn Line and run suburban services on both. Then I'd also leave the option open of having future high speed/V-Line service on the same corridor as the Sunshine-Jacana freight line and link to the Seymour and Bendigo lines, leaving the Sunbury line for suburban services and electrifying it. I don't think there's any doubt it would get riders -- if it drives SkyBus to the wall, as I expect it would, there're around 2 million passengers p.a. straight off. The issue is whether a multi-billion dollar hit