The HSR study relies on fast trains not having to cover their costs.
Transport
Brisbane’s tunnel vision: numbers look like pie in the sky
The original forecasts for Brisbane’s new Clem7 tunnel was more than 100,000 trips per day by the middle of next year. These numbers are unrealistic, writes transport expert Peter Quick.
Why trains are superior to planes
Thanks to the Eyjafjallajökull shambles, other travellers are starting to learn what Ed Gillespie has known for years: travelling overland is not just good for your eco-geek credentials. It’s also a lovely way to recapture the romance of travel.
Europe gets onboard the Road Train to cleaner highways
The EU is exploring a novel way of reducing fuel consumption: linking cars via wireless sensors into “road trains” on Europe’s motorways, with one lead vehicle “pulling” all the others along while the drivers kick back and save on fuel.
Get off the bloody road: the roads aren’t safe for bikes
No one would suggest it is safe for pedestrians to be on the roadway, so why should it be any different if a pedestrian gets on a bike? Ex NSW Roads Minister Carl Scully says cyclists should get off the road.
Sydney/Melbourne by plane or bust: Airbus vision kills the fast train
The notion of a Very Fast Train for the Melbourne-Sydney corridor has been shot down by new plans from Airbus to fly Very Large Planes between the two cities, because the entire cost, and risk, is funded by the privately owned airlines and airports.
Electric bikes are zooming
In the Netherlands today, one in ten new bicycles sold is electric.
Budget countdown: Auslink infrastructure planning fail
Auslink: frequently no appraisal, no cooperation and no planning, and no one ever evaluated anything.
Sydney: can’t plan, can’t build, can’t run
Sydney’s paralysis by power failure late yesterday is a reminder of how stuffed the city’s infrastructure is, writes Ben Sandilands.
Wind-powered car breaks speed recordSydney infrastructure edges closer to breaking point
The signs of infrastructure collapse in Sydney keep coming yet nobody in government seems willing to connect the dots, writes, Ben Sandilands.
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Sydneysiders wait as journos board the Fairfax Express
Despite a shortage of buses in Sydney, the beseiged NSW Government has laid on a special 448 bus service to chauffeur the staff of Fairfax Media, writes Ava Hubble.
Tips and rumours
Word has it that the newly created Victorian Government Department of Transport will be merging with VicRoads in the near future Worried that the Daily Telegraph poll will conclude the 2020 Creative Summiteers are all “out of touch” with the mainstream, they are all now busily emailing each other and their friends urging them to […]
NSW pays $10 million to find out the bleeding obvious
The modus operandi of the NSW Labor Government is now well established: when in trouble, create a diversion; when in dire trouble create a front-page fantasy, writes Alex Mitchell.
