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Light rail is cost-effective because it mostly uses existing street space. NSW Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian is right to resist calls to underground the eastern suburbs light rail line through Surry Hills

The Federal Government’s new report on High Speed Rail says it won’t reduce greenhouse emissions in the east coast corridor relative to the Base Case. In fact it concludes it will actually increase them!

Australians love the idea of high speed rail but the report released yesterday for public consultation by the federal government shows it would be a very poor way of spending public money

A new Canadian study confirms what cyclists intuitively know: providing quality cycling infrastructure reduces the risk of accidents and serious injuries

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

This proposal for a veloway (see exhibit) looks pretty exciting. It’s effectively a freeway for bicycles. By eliminating cars it addresses directly the key deterrent to cycling i.e. safety.

A key reason the Netherlands has the highest level of cycling for day-to-day transport in the world is its extensive network of high quality, safe bicycle paths. But it wasn’t always like that – the key message of this video (see exhibit) is that most of the bicycle network was built from the mid-1970s onward. [...]

A new Australian site, Other Cities, has just published a must-read article for anyone interested in cities. It’s an interview with Kevin O’Connor, Professorial Fellow in Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne. This fascinating and insightful interview covers many issues from developer levies to public transport to cars to where university workers live. I [...]

The issue of local government amalgamation is back on the table following a call by the Chair of the Bank of Melbourne, Elizabeth Proust, to slash the number of councils in Melbourne from 31 to one. This isn’t an issue that’s specific to Melbourne. Metropolitan Sydney is administered by an astonishing 38 councils with a [...]

The CEO of Melbourne Airport, Chris Woodruff, has a gripe. The Victorian Government is pressing ahead with construction of a $250 million rail line to support his competitor – Avalon Airport – but is spending a mere $6.5 million to study the warrant for rail to Melbourne Airport. Yet as I noted once before, while [...]