A trio of transport experts respond to the transport priorities recently announced among a series of science and research priorities by the Federal Government, and they all agree: Research will be key
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Port of Melbourne lease crucial to level crossing removal
COMMENT: The lease will help make a good port, a great port, and its proceeds will fund the removal of our 50 worst railway crossings, Victorian treasurer Tim Pallas writes.
Removing level
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Community concerns over Moorebank
The deal between the two neighbouring stakeholders at Moorebank leaves many questions unanswered, community spokesperson Allan Corben writes.
The following is a Letter to the Editor of Rail
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Road users must pay, sooner rather than later
COMMENT: The idea of motorists paying for the roads they use beyond tolls, fuel excise or registration fees has taken hold in Australia, Michael de Percy writes.
A user-pays system might
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Six things other cities can learn from Transport for London’s success
COMMENT: Complaining about public transport might seem as English as moaning about the weather. And it isn’t very British to shout about success. So what follows might seem odd, but here goes: Transport
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Regional Rail opening highlights Abbott’s public transport blind spot
COMMENT: The folly of the Abbott Government’s refusal to invest in public transport was underlined this week with the opening of congestion-busting Regional Rail Link in Victoria, Anthony
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Traffic congestion: is there a miracle cure? (Hint: it’s not roads)
COMMENT: With our “infrastructure prime minister” and both sides of politics trumpeting the building of new roads to reduce congestion, you could forgive everyday Australians for believing that they
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Restoring balance to the Australian freight sector may not be as complicated as you think
Lance Hockridge
COMMENT: Last week’s release of the Infrastructure Australia (IA) Audit saw “congestion” and “traffic chaos” splashed across the front pages of the nation’s
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Positive train control could have prevented Amtrak derailment, but it’s not quite on track
How does positive train control – safety technology that could have prevented May’s deadly Amtrak derailment – work, and why is it still not on US rails? Purdue University’s Jeffrey
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Abbott’s road bias is bad for the earth
COMMENT: Conservation expert Ian Lowe says the Abbott Government’s transport policy is more evidence that it is not interested in environmental reform.
The 2015-16 Budget is very disappointing
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