COMMENT: The Buy Queensland strategy has questionable economic logic and also explicitly contravenes a number of Australia’s international trade obligations, Giovanni Di Lieto writes.
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This is how regional rail can help ease our big cities’ commuter crush
ANALYSIS: Victoria offers lessons in the benefits of integrating metropolitan and regional planning, using regional rail to shrink distance and ease the pressures of growth on our big capital cities, Michael
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A 20-minute city sounds good, but becoming one is a huge challenge
COMMENT: While many talk about 30-minute cities, some aim for residents to be able to get to most services within 20 minutes. But cities like Melbourne have an awful lot of work to do to achieve their
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Transport access is good for new housing, but beware the pollution
Many new housing developments are being built along busy roads and rail lines, but lack design features that would reduce occupants’ exposure to harmful traffic pollution, Christine Cowie and Guy
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Financiers are now controlling public works, much to the public’s confusion
ANALYSIS: Canadian governments aren’t completely selling off major public works, but their embrace of public-private “partnerships” is giving private financiers control of major infrastructure
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Five lessons from Tokyo, a city of 38m people, for Australia, a nation of 24m
ANALYSIS: Tokyo has experienced extraordinary population growth but is among the world’s most liveable cities. Just how has it managed the pressures of growth? Brendan Barrett and Marco Amati discuss.
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Impending traffic chaos? Beware the problematic West Gate Tunnel forecasts
ANALYSIS: Melbourne’s proposed road project relies on assumptions that inflate estimates of the traffic the new link will carry – but other choices about the future of transport are open to us,
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Brisbane’s Cross River Rail will feed the centre at the expense of people in the suburbs
OPINION: The rail project may well help get more commuters into the CBD, but offers few benefits for the parts of the broader metro area where most population growth is occurring, Brian Feeney argues.
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Airport rail link can open up new possibilities for the rest of Melbourne
COMMENT: A rail link is a big step towards transforming transport access and land use in ways that will enable a much bigger city to remain liveable, Ian Woodcock and Iain Lawrie write.
Melburnians
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Stuck in traffic: busting Melbourne versus Sydney myths and identifying the worst commutes
ANALYSIS: For Melbourne drivers who comfort themselves with the thought that traffic congestion is worse in Sydney, sorry but new analysis shows overall delays are similar, but some commutes are especially
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