Three years into its 99-year lease of Port Botany, NSW Ports is under financial pressure as more doubts arise about a vital but secret compensation deal with the NSW government, Greg Cameron writes.
Having
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Metropolitan governance is the missing link in Australia’s reform agenda
Representative and accountable metropolitan government is needed to lead metro-scale planning, infrastructure investment and services, and partnerships with the private sector and civil society, urban
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TrackSAFE joins fight for Government focus on suicide
COMMENT: Coming off the back of the new reports released from the ABS indicating suicide as the leading cause of premature deaths in Australia, the TrackSAFE Foundation executive director Naomi Frauenfelder
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‘The 30-minute city’: how do we put the political rhetoric into practice?
COMMENT: The ’30-minute city’ goal is about more than urban rail and other transit projects. It means transforming our cities into centres of activity where work, study and services are all
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How big transport firms will survive the mining slump
International investors competing for a stake and the Federal Government’s positive outlook for mining are both good signs for the largest companies in the transport sector, logistics academic and former
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The ‘sky rail’ saga: can big new transport projects ever run smoothly?
COMMENT: Elevated rail to remove level crossings, done properly, has many benefits – and the alternatives are more disruptive and costly. But announcing projects with little consultation is asking for
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Australian Infrastructure Plan has some way to go to give our cities what they need
COMMENT: Infrastructure Australia’s latest report is substantial but, critically, it fails to incorporate the transport thinking needed to develop more compact cities that work better for everyone,
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Port Botany doesn’t need another expensive rail project, just better utilisation
COMMENT: Improving the efficiency of existing rail infrastructure into Port Botany will deliver the capacity gains it will need, write Daniel Harbour, Daniel Guimarans, and Pascal Van Hentenryck.
Every
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Defying the ‘one-hour rule’ for city travel, traffic modelling drives policy madness
COMMENT: On average, people won’t accept a commuting time of more than an hour. As cities grow ever bigger, new road projects can’t achieve this, yet policymakers still rely on modelling that
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Cultural shift needed to tackle growing transport challenges
Mobility is critical for a city’s life. But Australian cities need change, and they need it urgently, Stephan Winter, Nicole Ronald and Ronny Kutadinata write.
Cities are complex systems.
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