Within weeks of floating it, the Newman government has backed away at the first sign of trouble from its dramatic new vision for an efficient, high-frequency bus network in South East Queensland
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Do Coroners (sometimes) go too far?
Some Coroners make recommendations with wide-ranging implications, often based on just one or a handful of very specific cases. They should increase their policy skills or be a little more modest about their abilities
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Why do trucks & buses still rely on mirrors?
Anyone who cycles on roads should make a special point of watching this video (it’s only 54 seconds). So should anyone who drives a large vehicle, especially bus and truck drivers. It’s timely following the widely reported death of a cyclist outside Olympic park in London last week in an accident with a bus carrying Games [...]
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Do new suburban rail lines always make sense?
One of the key challenges to improving public transport in Australian cities is that almost everyone wants something glamorous and expensive, like a shiny new train or at least a light rail service. As Dr Mathew Burke points out, although the obvious low cost solution in many outer suburbs is to coordinate new feeder bus [...]
READ MOREWhy do we dislike buses?
Melburnian’s seem to love trains and dislike buses. Melbourne Airport and Doncaster are both served by high-frequency bus services with a wide span of operating hours, yet large numbers of people want to spend billions replacing them with trains. The list of criticisms of buses – relative to trains – is long. Right at the [...]
READ MOREWhy don’t Melbourne’s buses use LPG?
I have a heightened consciousness about diesel buses and 4WDs belching carcinogens because I’ve just finished reading Siddhartha Mukherjee’s excellent book, The Emperor of all Maladies: a Biography of Cancer. Melbourne’s fleet of 1700 buses is powered almost entirely by diesel engines. Each year they collectively travel around 80 million kilometres, each bus consuming 90 [...]
READ MORESydney buses from the air
Melbourne data visualisation company, Flink Labs, has produced another excellent transport animation – this time it’s 24 hours in the life of Sydney buses. Flink Labs prepared it as part of the apps4nsw program. There’s also an associated real time bus map which uses GPS to show the location of Sydney’s many buses. It’s updated every minute. [...]
READ MOREIs a busway right for Mernda?
If I lived in Mernda I’d be pretty unhappy that the Brumby Government (here and here) is only going to give me a bus service rather than extend the Epping rail line beyond the new station at South Morang. Sure, it’s Bus Rapid Transit with its own dedicated 7.5 km busway (here and here). And [...]
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