The Australian Transport Safety Board has signaled serious concerns about the safety of the main Melbourne-Sydney rail line less than two months after launching a systemic inquiry into its operations.
Railway trains
Stimulating the second Sydney airport debate
The lure of a $42 billion stimulus package has shaken the dual transport totems of fast trains and a second Sydney airport (anywhere-but-in-Sydney) out of the closet once more, writes Ben Sandilands.
Sydney’s Metro Line goes down the gurgler
The train standing on platform 1 is the Labor Government special service to electoral oblivion. It will be leaving at the state election in March 2011, writes Alex Mitchell.
SMH botched its reporting on Sydney’s Western FastRail
Saturday’s SMH article on Western FastRail by Linton Besser is inaccurate, dishonest and poor journalism, writes Western FastRail Consortium Chair Michael Easson.
Garnaut’s in and now Labor actually has to do something
In the lead up to 24 November, greenhouse was a useful point of differentiation for the ALP. Now it’s something they have to do something about, writes Christian Kerr.
