Sydney Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, is calling on the O’Farrell Government to get the recently announced eastern suburbs light rail line off the streets of Surry Hills and under the ground

Brisbane’s Airport Link toll road is the latest in a growing list of major transport projects in financial trouble because traffic forecasts pitched to investors now seem wildly over-optimistic

A study done last year provides a guide to the full cost of Hurricane Sandy and how long it might take to restore transport infrastructure in New York to 100% operation.

The loss of life is tragic and the economic impact enormous, but places like New York are much better able to deal with natural disasters than most of the world’s population.

The Chair of Infrastructure Australia, Sir Rod Eddington, called for a “mature and dispassionate” discussion about road pricing on Friday. Good, I wholeheartedly agree. This should be the number one issue for discussion nationally in planning the future of our cities.

Ho hum, another half-year, another chapter in the World’s Most Liveable City sweepstakes, this time courtesy of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). In the latest release of the EIU’s bi-annual survey of 140 cities, Australian and Canadian cities once again dominate the top rankings, accounting for eight of the ten highest-rated metros. Melbourne remains the [...]

During the first week of the Olympics, architecture critic Elizabeth Farrelly wrote a piece in the Sydney Morning Herald arguing that London planned its Games better than Sydney (Where the Brits have us beaten). The gist of her argument is London’s facilities were put in accessible locations and provided with good transport infrastructure. In Sydney, [...]

The CEO of South Australia’s Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Mr Rod Hook, is reported to have said the only way the state will get any money from the Federal Government for new freeways is if it imposes a toll on users. Unlike Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, Adelaide doesn’t have any tolled roads (neither [...]

Whatever misgivings I’ve had about some other reports by the Grattan Institute, the latest one demonstrates the value of the Melbourne-based think tank. Game changers: economic reform priorities for Australia seeks to identify those workable economic reforms that would produce the greatest benefits for the nation by 2022. It proposes three: Broaden the GST to [...]

It’s long been a commonplace that cities are engines of economic and social development. Spatial proximity is synergistic – it provides economies of scale that extend well beyond a single firm or household. However the “spillover” benefits of living side by side come at a price – the costs are also amplified by proximity. Cities [...]